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BULLETIN 464, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



With the present high price of potash salts it is impracticable to use such materials 

 in the way suggested, and it may also be impracticable to use acid phosphate. In 

 this case somewhat larger amounts of sawdust should be used . 



Sifted coal ashes may be used as an absorbent, but wood ashes or lime should not 

 be mixed with the manure, as they are likely to cause the loss of its most valuable 

 fertilizing constituent, namely, nitrogen (ammonia). Occasionally the litter from 

 the poultry house may be mixed with the manure. This increases the bulk, but 

 greatly reduces the value per pound of the manure and makes it difficult to apply to 

 the soil, except where it is to be broadcasted and plowed in. 



Poultry manure is more valuable than the manure of any other common farm ani- 

 mal, as the following table shows: 



Analyses and value, per ton of manure of different animals. 



Animal. 



Nitrogen. 



Phosphoric 

 acid. 



Potash. 



Value per 

 ton. 



Poultry 

 Sheep.'. 

 Hogs. . . 

 Horses . 

 Cattle. . 



Per cent. 

 0. SO to 2. 000 

 .768 

 .840 

 .490 

 .426 



Per cent. 

 0. 50 to 2. 000 

 .391 

 .390 

 .260 

 .290 



Per cent. 

 0. 80 to 0. 900 

 .591 

 .320 

 .480 

 .440 



S7.07 

 3.30 

 3.29 

 2.21 

 3.02 



Poultry manure is particularly well adapted to gardening, and the pupils should 

 either use it on their own garden projects or dispose of it at a good price, thus 

 increasing the profits of their flocks. 



POULTRY-CLUB REPORT FORMS. 



[Furnished by the Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture.] 



These or similar forms are used by the club leaders of the different States and may 

 be obtained through the State club leader of boys' and girls' clubs at the State col- 

 lege of agriculture. 



REPORT OF HATCHING CHICKS. 



Name 



Post office 



Name of poultry club. 



County . 



Age.. 

 State. 

 Year. 





Number 

 of eggs. 



Kind of 



eggs. 



Date 

 set. 



Hen or 

 incubator. 



Eggs tested out. 



Eggs re- 

 maining. 





Lot. 



On seventh 

 day. 



On fourteenth 

 day. 



Chicks 

 hatched. 





Infertile. 



Dead. 



Infertile. 



Dead. 





1 























2 























Etc.. 













































Remarks. ■ — If an incubator is used, state make of same and total amount of the 



kerosene consumed. Make of incubator, ; kerosene used, 



gallons. 



State the total number of hours of labor spent in attending hens or incubator: 



hours. 



Two copies of this report must be filled out, one to be given to the teacher at the 

 end of the weaning period of the last lot of chicks and the other to be retained by 

 the club member. (This is to be done for all reports at the time they are filled out.) 



