CHAPTER XIX. 



THE MANURE PILE. 



YORKSHIRE BOAR. 



Half the hog manure is lost and the other half is too often 

 neglected. John Tucker. 



More than once in the pre- 

 vious pages have I referred to the 

 fact that a recent estimate places a 

 value of $ 12 on the yearly manure 

 product of a hog. The average 

 of each horse is estimated at $27, 

 for each head of cattle $19, for each hog $12, and for 

 each sheep $2. 



The manure value seems almost incredibly large, 

 for what farmer with ten hogs counts on getting $120 

 worth of manure from them each year ? Indeed, what 

 farmer clears $12 per head on his pork, above the cost 

 of feeding ? We often hear of profitable pork-fatten- 

 ing operations, but much less is said about the hog 

 manure or its cash value. Perhaps there is no better 

 way of showing the value of the pig-pen product than 

 by comparing it with the product of the cow stable. 



Pig manure, however, is variable in composition, 



