1905 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
847 
RAW PHOSPHATE ROCK FOR 
POULTRY MANURE. 
B. B., Maryland .—Will some of your wise 
fertilizer friends tell me what effect the use 
of untreated ground rock as an absorbent for 
my poultry manure will have on the com¬ 
mercial value to me (I use it all from 4,600 
hens) of the manure? Land plaster makes 
too much dust, and causes stoppage of the 
nostrils, with the ensuing so-called colds, roup, 
etc. We keep two Inches of dirt under roosts, 
with about nve per cent land plaster and five 
per cent ground phosphate rock. The houses 
are cleaned daily, the manure being wheeled 
to manure house, spread thin and covered 
with kalnit, and as fast as it accumulates is 
spread every week or two all the year around, 
either as top-dressing or to be plowed in. I 
want to know whether there is any better 
way to get the value of this by-product from 
my “egg foundry” into the gizzard of my 
growing crops. I want to take two and two 
and make seven of eight of available fer¬ 
tilizer, leaving two or three more for future 
years. 
I know of no better way of handling 
poultry manure. Plaster is unnecessary 
here as an amnionic absorbent. Dry 
plaster will not absorb ammonia at all. It 
is only when the manure and plaster are 
wet that this absorption can take place. 
But poultry manure is quite dry in itself, 
and the dry earth into which it falls will, 
1 think, be enough of an absorbent and 
drier. The method of applying phos¬ 
phate rock to the land through the ma- 
MY FRIEND AND I. 
nure pile is a good one. I should not 
look for any considerable increase in solu¬ 
bility of the phosphate by the treatment. 
Whether your correspondent will reap im¬ 
mediate benefit from the phosphate rock is 
•doubtful. Some who have tried it report 
favorable results and others absolutely 
;no effect. If he uses it with green ma- 
mures, rye, clover, or the like, or with 
•abundance of stable manure, he will be 
more likely to see immediate effects than 
under other conditions. Many of our Con¬ 
necticut soils at least are not strikingly 
deficient in phosphate and applications of 
soluble phosphates even on some of them 
show very little effect. But to “stock up” 
a soil which is strikingly deficient in phos¬ 
phates, T believe, finely ground phosphate 
rock is an economical application. 
[dr.] e. h. JENKINS. 
Conn. Exp. Station. 
The fact that, on a large majority of 
soils, fertilizers carrying phosphorus pro¬ 
duce • a very marked effect seems to indi¬ 
cate that the ordinary manures of the 
farm are relatively deficient in this sub¬ 
stance in an available form. For nine 
years past at this station we have been 
treating stable manure with “floats” (raw 
phosphate), acid phosphate, kainit and 
land plaster, with the result that while 
the kainit and land plaster both slightly 
increase the total effectiveness of the ma¬ 
nure, the phosphatic materials nearly 
double that effectiveness, producing not 
only a very much larger total increase, but 
also a very much larger net increase, after 
deducting the cost of the material. On 
the basis of these experiments we arc now 
using ground phosphate rock (floats) in 
our stable regularly. Our tests show us 
that on our soil, which is relatively defi¬ 
cient in lime, there would be objection to 
the use of common acid phosphate. Wher¬ 
ever, therefore, the use of phosphatic fer¬ 
tilizers is indicated, the effectiveness of 
the manures of the farm may undoubtedly 
be greatly increased by the use of one or 
the other of these materials, either in the 
henhouse or stable, the material to be 
selected depending upon the character of 
the soil to which it is applied. 
CHAS. E. THORNE. 
Ohio Experiment Station. 
R. N.-Y.—All readers may not know 
what is meant by "Boats.” Phosphate 
rock is found in different parts of the 
country, supposed to be the fossil remains 
of animals that died centuries ago. When 
this rock is ground into a fine powder it 
is called “floats” or raw phosphate. “Acid 
phosphate” is this same raw powder “cut” 
or mixed with sulphuric acid, which 
breaks up the rock and makes the phos¬ 
phate soluble in water. 
Finely ground phosphate rock could 
absorb a certain amount of liquid ma¬ 
nure. It is possible that the hen manure 
might have a slightly favorable action 
upon the assimilability of the phosphate. 
If the ground phosphate contained any 
considerable amount of carbonate of lime, 
as is sometimes the case, it would act in¬ 
juriously by virtue of liberating ammonia 
from the hen manure. H. j. wheeler. 
Rhode Island Exp. Station. 
At the Maine Experiment Station ex¬ 
periments were made with a number of 
different substances. Plaster left the ma¬ 
nure too dry and lumpy, while about one- 
third of the ammonia was lost. The use 
of sawdust with the plaster held most of 
the ammonia. Kainit with sawdust add¬ 
ed, and also acid phosphate and sawdust 
held practically all the ammonia. It 
seems from these experiments that the 
acid phosphate is better than the raw 
ground rock as an absorbent, and that the 
sawdust helps dry out the manure and 
gives it a better condition. In this case 
the night droppings from 180 hens for 
three nights weighed 45 pounds, and car¬ 
ried 1J4 pound of nitrogen, four-fifths 
of a pound of phosphoric acid and two- 
fifths of potash. Thus both phosphate 
and potash are needed to “balance” the 
manure. 
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