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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. 
Poultry 
Sheep.\ 
Hogs. . . 
Horses . 
Cattle. . 
Nitrogen. 
Per cent. 
0. 80 to 2. 000 
.768 
.840 
.490 
.426 
Phosphoric 
acid. 
Per cent. 
0.50 to 2. 000 
.391 
.390 
.260 
.290 
Potash. 
Per cent. 
0. 80 to 0. 900 
.591 
.320 
.480 
.440 
Value per 
ton. 
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. 
Countv 
Age. . 
State. 
Year. 
Number 
of eggs. 
Hen or 
incubator. 
Eggs tested out. 
Eggs re- 
maining. 
Lot. 
Kind of 
eggs. 
Date 
set. 
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.) 
