1909. 
THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
208 
Blood and Bone Fertilizers. 
C. II; Sandusky, O .—Within a short dis¬ 
tance there is a fertilizer manufactured 
which is composed of fresh green hone and 
blood and meat scraps, first steamed, then 
dried. Would you tell me the value per 
ton of such a fertilizer and what it could 
be best used for, for gardening purposes? 
Ans. —Without knowing what analy¬ 
sis the manufacturers claim for it we 
could not figure the value. It should 
be like a fair sample of blood and 
bone, with perhaps five per cent of 
nitrogen and 12 of phosphoric acid. You 
should have a sample of it analyzed be¬ 
fore buying any large quantity. Such 
animal fertilizers are good as far as 
they go for all grain, fruit and garden 
crops. You must remember that there 
is no potash in blood, bone, tankage 
or* fish—any fertilizers from animal 
substances. Potash is necessary on 
most soils. In using this fertilizer 
we should add 300 pounds muriate of 
potash to each ton of the blood and 
bone. 
Lime for Hard Soil. 
J. L. II., Genoa , Ohio .—What can I do to 
make my soil open, mellow and well 
aerated? I have one acre that I am trying 
to raise fruit and vegetables on. It is a 
heavy clay loam, and has had a coat of 
barnyard fertilizer every year for 10 years. 
I get it well pulverized in Spring and stir 
after every rain, yet by the time my early 
potatoes are ripe the soil is so compact I 
can hardly dig the few that there are. 
After reading the article on lime, page 101, 
I thought that might help some, though 
limestone crops out on top of the ground, 
not more than 200 feet away.. If you ad¬ 
vise lime, which would be better, burnt lime 
or pulverized limestone? I can get it ground 
as fine as sand. Would I get any benefit 
this year? 
Ans. —We should use at least one ton 
of air-slaked lime per acre, first plowing 
under the manure and then broadcasting 
lime on the furrows and harrowing it in. 
This will act to break up the soil and 
make it mellow. We have known of 
cases where the soil dried out into great 
lumps after plowing, no ordinary tool 
being able to crush them. A coating of 
lime made them crumble. You will ob¬ 
tain some improvement this year, but 
of course you must expect more scab on 
the potatoes after using lime. 
Spreading or Piling Manure. 
V. G. W., Dutchess Cb., N. Y.—A friend 
criticised me a few days ago for putting 
my manure out in piles in the fields. 1 
plowed my corn stubble last Fall expecting 
to sow oats and seed to grass in the Spring. 
The field 4s a little rolling. I am putting 
my cow stable manure in snug piles in the 
field, of about 75 loads to the pile, expecting 
to spread it in the Spring with a spreader 
before sowing the oats. Would I not lose 
considerable of the best part of the manure 
if I had spread it each day when drawing 
from the stable? The ground would be 
frozen and part of the time covered with 
snow and beside, it could not be spread 
as evenly by hand. The manure spreader 
could not be used in cold weather, especially 
on the plowed field. 
Ans. —We think this matter of haul- 
ing out manure is a labor question. If 
the manure can be hauled and spread 
directly from the barn yard, you save 
the labor of piling and reloading in 
the Spring. In a late Spring, when 
work presses hard, the time spent in 
spreading the piled manure often puts 
the entire season’s work behind. There 
is a loss of manure both when spread 
through the Winter and piled. When 
spread on rolling ground, especially 
where the water runs freely over the 
sod, there is some loss by leaching. We 
think this loss is largely confined to the 
nitrates, so that when such manure is 
plowed under the soluble nitrogen has 
been pretty much taken out. Part of 
the nitrates will be held in the soil, but 
there is, without doubt, some loss. There 
is also more or less loss in the piles 
through fermentation, but during the 
Winter season some of the organic 
nitrogen in this piled manure becomes 
soluble so that in the Spring such man¬ 
ure is more rapidly available than that 
spread out and exposed through the 
Winter. All these things enter the 
question, which comes down to the labor 
problem. On our own farm, which is 
rough, we should pile the manure and 
spread in Spring. On a reasonably level 
farm we should do the same provided 
SINGULAR LIMESTONE FORMATION. 
See Page 263. 
we had teams and men enough to 
spread the manure without interfering 
with Spring work. If not, we should 
spread from the barnyard when we 
could. 
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^ J. L. Lihby, Variety, “Green Mountain,” 432 “ JU 
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