22O SOILS 



mixed with the earth, where its content of plant food will 

 be absorbed, it cannot exert its beneficial effect on the 

 physical character of the soil. A man of experience is 

 tempted to say that one load of manure spread with per- 

 fect evenness is about as valuable as two loads on the 

 same area spread in chunks and heaps. This phase of the 

 question cannot be easily exaggerated. Until the manure 

 becomes an unrecognizable constituent of the soil itself, 

 it has not accomplished its mission. It must be digested 

 in the soil, assimilated into the soil system; and this is 



HAULING MANURE TO THE FIELD 

 To be most effective manure should be drawn direct from the stable to the field 



possible alone when it is evenly and uniformly spread." 



This waste is avoided when the manure spreader is 

 used. 



The manure spreader: it pays good interest. In the 

 first place, the manure spreader does its work well. It 

 spreads thinly, uniformly, and evenly items of much 

 consequence in handling manure. If the growing crop 

 is to receive this farm resource so as to make the best 

 use of it, it should be furnished to the soil in the most 

 wholesome and in the best usable form ; it must be given 

 the soil in a way that allows rapid decomposition and 

 complete, even incorporation into the soil. 



