The manure spreader secured a gain over hand spreading in the 

 corn crop of $4.80 per acre, or $192.00 on forty acres. In oats, the 

 spreader has a credit of $3.92 per acre over hand spreading, or $156.80 

 for forty acres. In clover, the gain was $2.00 per acre. Manured land 

 made a gain over unmanured land of $8.80 per acre on corn, $5.04 on 

 oats and $7.50 on clover. 



Note — (Corn was valued at 40 cents per bushel, oats at 28 cents and 

 clover at $5.00 per ton.) 



Mr. Lawrence Enzminger of Platte Center, Nebraska, made the fol- 

 lowing report: 



"We manured forty acres with a spreader and an adjoining thirty 

 acres received no manure. The forty acres averaged forty-eight bushels 

 of corn per acre, and the thirty acres averaged thirty-nine bushels per 

 acre. The gain in favor of the manured field was nine bushels per acre, 

 or three hundred and sixty bushels on the forty acres. The corn sold 

 for fifty cents per bushel, or $180.00, much more than the cost of the 

 spreader." 



The following is the average results of other experiments carried on 

 for a period of three years to determine the advantage of a machine 

 spreader over the hand fork: 



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Total gain for manure spreader over hand work on six acres of corn 

 and ten of meadow in one year was $122.00. 



The gain made in all the crops where the spreader was used over land 

 where no manure was applied is so marked that a farmer cannot 

 afford to ignore the value of this fertilizer or the most profitable way to 

 apply it. 



The farmer should also keep in mind the fact that manure is lasting, 

 if properly distributed and thoroughly worked into the soil. At the 

 Rothamsted Experiment Station, records have been kept for over fifty 

 years as to the effects of manures upon soils. In one experiment, farm 

 manure was used for twenty years and then discontinued for the same 

 period. It was observed that when its use was discontinued, there was 

 a gradual decline in crop-producing power, but not so rapid as of ploti: 

 where no manure had been used. The manure applied during the 

 twenty-year period made itself felt for an ensuing twenty years. 



