The Deterioration of Manures. 
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Notes on Table IV. 
No. i. This manure was in a pile five feet high. The cattle were fed 
alfalfa hay. 
No. 2. Manure was in corral one year and was then put in pile four 
feet high. The feed was alfalfa hay. 
No. 3. This manure still lay on the ground in the corral. The feed 
was alfalfa hay. 
No. 4. This manure was in a pile four*feet high. The feed was al¬ 
falfa hay and corn. 
No. 5. Only a small amount of this manure remained. The feed 
was corn, barley and alfalfa. 
No. 6. This manure was in a pile four feet high. The iced was 
corn and alfalfa. 
No. 7. This manure was from milk cows, pastured during the day on 
native mountain grasses. No grain fed. 
No. 8. From milk cows fed as No. 7. 
No. 9. This manure was in pile three and one-half feet high. The 
feed was'alfalfa and timothy hays. 
No. 10. This manure was made under cover of a shed, and had not 
been piled up. The feed was native, timothy and alfalfa 
hays. 
No. 11. Same as above except that only native hay was used. 
No. 12. This manure was undisturbed in a corral for two years and 
. was then placed in a pile and remained there for eight years. 
The feed was native hay. 
No. 13. This manure was from a pile which had weathered until it 
was but one and one-half feet high. The feed was native 
hay. 
Moisture is Lozv in Cattle Manures. 
A comparison of Table IV with the average analysis given shows 
a most striking difference in the moisture content, nor is this difference 
due to the inclusion of a number of fresh manure analyses in the stan¬ 
dard analysis, for in an experiment conducted by the New York 
Station, Geneva Bui. No. 23, New Series, the moisture in the manure 
after one year’s weathering is given as 75.18 percent. The average 
amount of water in the 13 manures given in Table IV is 52 percent 
or 22 percent less than in the average analysis. The cow manures 
are drier even than the sheep manures which had 13.3 percent less 
moisture than the standard analysis. Number 9, which has 76 percent 
moisture was from a pile under the eaves of a barn where it received 
the water from the roof during rainstorms. 
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