56 ILLINOIS dairymen's association. 



Answer. No, sir; not a bit. 



Question. How many loads would we find to-day ? 



Answer. You could not get enough to bank a house. A school director 

 applied to me the other day for manure to bank up a school house, and I said, 

 "You will have to wait about a week until we can make it. It goes to the field 

 every day right from the stable." 



Question. Do you find it as profitable as it is to lay and make ? 



Answer. There is nothing to make; it is made already. If you let it 

 stand out there two or three months the fertilizing matter is washed out of it. 



Mr. Buell : I cannot afford to haul out my manure as it is made, and my 

 practice is simply this, to haul it into the yard for my hogs to pick over, and 

 then in the spring put my manure spreader to work, and my man in the spring 

 will lay out twice as much in the spring as he can in the winter. 



Answer. He ought to; he hasn't over half as much to spread. You spoke 

 of the hogs. What you want to do is to let your hogs right into the stable every 

 morning for a while, and you will find they will grow very fast, and it is warm 

 for them there. We let the hogs in every morning, and they pick out every 

 kernel of corn, and by noon the whole thing is ready to go the field. And I am 

 prepared to establish my proposition that manure is worth much more when 

 taken out in the winter than when left to be picked over by the hogs, and allow- 

 ing a great deal of it to go to waste. 



Mr. Hostetter : Is there not considerable loss in the manure washing 

 away when it is out in the snow in the winter time ? 



Answer. I think there is not very much — unless it is on a hill side. 



Prof. Henry : A good Wisconsin farmer, who has made a nice little 

 fortune in farming, was asking me one day about a certain experiment, and I 

 told him all about it, and I thought I was doing pretty well in getting him in- 

 terested. He listened patiently, and as I closed he dropped his head, and said 

 he: " Well, I am glad to learn that science is confirming common sense." 

 Science confirms common sense in this question of manure. Science confirms 

 the fact that the quicker you get your manure on the land, the more you can 

 save. Dr. Volcker, of England, analyzed samples of manure which had lain 

 out in the barn-yard twelve months, and found at the end of the year that he 

 had one-fourth of that manure, and that one-fourth was not the valuable part. 

 It stands to reason that it ought to pay to take it right out. The men can work 

 easier at this time of the year than to leave it till spring when everything is to 

 be done, and very little of it will wash away. 



Mr. Dillte : If it is in order, I would like to move that this convention 

 appoint a committee to call upon our legislature with a petition for an appro- 

 priation for an experimental station in connection with our agricultural college. 



Motion seconded. 



Mr. Chester : Before that motion is put, I would just like to say one 

 word. The experimental stations which have been started have proved an ad- 

 vantage,not only to the f armer,but to every individual citizen in the State. Every 

 citizen of Illinois will be benefited by an experiment that will bring out the fact 

 that we are making wastes of fragments that we ought to gather up. Wherever 

 there are lands or products that are being wasted for lack of intelligence in 

 handling them, this project will be of benefit, and not only there, but to every 



