STABLE MANURE 



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Preserving stable manures. If you would protect your 

 farm-made manures, you must abolish that old barnyard 

 built on a hill, the drainage of which finds its way to the 

 creek, where shortly it is picked up by the waters and 

 carried away. Maybe your barnyard is not this sort, but 

 a number of your neighbors have this kind. And here is 

 the point : no one can afford such expensive barnyards ; 

 too much valuable capital real soil fertility is lost each 



A COVERED BARNYARD 

 Cattle are protected and the manure is preserved 



year. You can do one of two tilings : build a covered 

 barnyard, where manure and stock are covered and pro- 

 tected, or you can remake the old barnyard by banking 

 up the lower side and by scooping a hollow out of the 

 middle. Now, in neither case can the manure be washed 

 away. 



If the bottom of this newly made yard is of clay, there 

 will be little or no leaching, and hence practically no loss. 

 On the other hand, if the bottom and sides are of a sand 

 nature, spongy in character rather than impervious, it will 

 be necessary to do more work before a good job is 



