massachusetts 

 Agricultural Experiment Station 



BULLETIN No. 196 SEPTEMBER, 1920 



Methods of Applying Manure 



By Wm. p. brooks 



This bulletin describes an experiment comparing late fall and 

 winter spreading of manures with spring application and prompt 

 incorporation with the soil, which continued twenty years, during 

 the first twelve manure being applied (with one exception) annu- 

 ally, while the determination of the relative lasting effects has 

 been the object of the last eight years. Results are briefly pre- 

 sented and discussed, and seem to show conclusively that holding 

 the manure in a large heap until spring is the better plan, because 

 it involves less waste, and during later years, especially, produces 

 larger crops, more clover, more rapid early spring growth and 

 earlier maturity. 



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