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• per acre during the second 12 year period. Land cropped the 

 same way but receiving ten tons of farm manure once in every 

 four years returned $14.07 per acre the first 12 years and $14.35 

 per acre the second 12 years. The yields of grain were greatly in- 

 creased and no doubt a continuance of this experiment would 

 show up still greater the advantage of farm manure. The 

 Pennsylvania, Iowa and Indiana Experiment Stations 

 have found that eight tons of manure applied to 

 every acre of land once in four years will bring an ex- 

 tra crop and produce $2.25 per ton above the cost of application 

 for each ton of manure used. The Iowa station found that 

 7 tons of manure applied every 4 years in rotation of corn, 

 oats and clover gave added returns in four years of 42 bushels 

 of corn, 6 bushels of oats and one and seven-tenths tons of 

 clover hay. The Secretary of the Iowa Beef Producers' Asso- 

 ciation carried on similar work and arrived at about the same 

 conclusion. 



United States Department of Agriculture carried on a sur- 

 vey where a great many farms were considered. They found 

 that the average live stock farm was outyielding the average 

 grain farm about 14 bushels of corn, 7 bushels of oats and one 

 ton of hay per acre. This was not the, good live^ stock faruT 

 compared with the poor grain farm because both classes of 

 farms were producing yields that were above the average for 

 the state. 



To get the best results from farm manure it should be 

 placed on the land at once with a manure spreader or stored in 

 a manure pit that will hold the liquid. All of the liquid ma- 

 nure must be absorbed with bedding, for this is the particularly 

 valuable part of the manure. When I acquired the farm that I 

 am now operating we manured 40 acres of land with manure 

 that w^as scattered here and there about the farm. It was piled 

 in the fields and in the barn yard and, of course, a large amount 

 of its fertilizing property was lost. This 40 acres, however, av- 

 eraged over 50 bushels per acre of corn in an extremely unfav- 

 orable season while the adjoining farms that were supposed to 

 be much more fertile averaged right around 25 to 30 bushels 



