STABLE MANURE 



2CK) 



ding: it is intended to furnish clean quarters for animals, 

 to absorb and retain liquid excrement, to check and con- 

 trol fermentation and nitrogen loss. Hence, it dilutes 

 manure rather than improves its chemical composition. 



Care in keeping manure. The average farmer is quite 

 wasteful with his stable manure: he certainly does not 

 take good care of it. There is not a single section of the 

 country that does not pre- 

 sent examples which show 

 manure as being wasted in 

 exposed barnyards, or 

 piled under eaves, or as 

 being washed away, and 

 so poorly preserved that 

 the greater part of the ni- 

 trogen therein held is re- 

 leased by fermentation 

 and sent out into the air. 



The kind of live stock 

 influences value. Inas- 

 much as different feeding 

 rations are fed our many 

 classes of animals, it fol- 

 lows that the value of the manure bears a direct relation 

 to this fact. Hence, growing animals, dairy cows, 

 and other animals receiving feeding stuffs relatively high 

 in nitrogenous foods produce fertilizing products of richer 

 fertilizing values than fattening animals or other classes 

 fed more carbonaceous feeding materials. 



Full-grown animals, neither gaining nor losing weight, 

 excrete practically all of the fertilizing constituents of the 

 food, while milch cows excrete on an average <>f seventy 

 per cent., and fattening cattle and work horses about 

 ninety per cent. 



LOSI.VG FERTILITY 



Thousands of cattle are ted annually 

 in yards, where the valuable parts 

 of the manure waste into streams 

 forever lost to the soil 



