MY OWN PLAN OF MANAGING MANUBE. 



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put 10 tons of manure per acre in the one case, you would put 15 

 tons in tho ot'-.er which makes quite a difference in the dose." 



The Doctor is right. Let us figure a little. If your cart holds 

 20 bushels, and if the manure weighs 75 Ibs. to the bushel, and 

 you wish to put on 10 tons of manure per acre, or 1,500 bushels, 

 or 13^- cart-loads, then, as there are 43,560 square feet in an acre, 

 you want a bushel of manure to 29 square feet, or say a space 2 

 yards long, by nearly 5 feet wide. 



Now, as our ridges are 2 feet apart, and as our usual plan is 

 to manure 5 ridges at a time, or 12-J- feet wide, a load of 20 

 bushels of manure will go over a space 46 feet long, nearly, or 

 say 15 yards ; and so, a load would make 3 heaps, 15 feet apart, 

 and there would be 6| bushels in each heap. 



If the manure is to be spread on the surface of the land, there is 

 no necessity for placing the heap on the headland. You can make 

 the heap or heaps. " Where most convenient," broke in the Dea- 

 con. " No, not by any means," I replied; "for if that was the 

 rule, the men would certainly put the heap just where it happened 

 to be the least trouble for them to draw and throw off the loads." 



The aim should be to put the heap just where it will require 

 the least labor to draw the manure on to the land in the spring. 



On what w r e call " rolling," or hilly land, I would put the heap 

 on the highest land, so that in the spring the horses would be 

 going down hill with the full carts or wagons. Of course, it 

 would be very unwise to adopt this plan if the rnanurs was not 



Field, 40x20 Sods, showing Position of two Heaps of Manure, a, a. 



drawn from the yards until spring, when the land was soft; 

 but I am now speaking of drawing out the manure in the winter, 

 when there is sleighing, or when the ground is frozen. No farm- 

 er will object to a little extra labor for the teams in the winter, if 

 it will save work and time in the spring. 



