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returns in manure, if you know enough or care 

 enough, to preserve it properly. 



When immediate spreading on the fields is 

 not possible, the manure, both liquid and solid, 

 should be kept in a tight pit, or under cover. 

 If too much litter has not been used, the liquid 

 part will prevent loss from too rapid fermenta- 

 tion But if there is litter enough to make the 

 manure very dry, some water should be added 

 from time to time to let fermentation go on 

 without loss. Manure thus cared for will be 

 ready for use on the land at any time that it 

 is needed, and will contain practically all the 

 necessary fertilizing properties. 



A German proverb says: "The manure pile 

 is the farmer's bank." All farmers these days 

 know the value of good manures, which ac- 

 counts for their buying so much commercial 

 fertilizer, but some day they will know the 

 value of saving the whole of the stable and 

 barnyard manures, so as to avoid the cost of 

 commercial fertilizers. Then there will be less 

 of that unscientific talk of "depleted, soils," 

 and no grumbling about " decreased yields." 



Sea-weeds, ashes, "mucks," and bones are all 

 valuable as manures if handled properly. The 

 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, at Or- 

 ono. Me., has pubhshed a bulletin. No. 74, on 



