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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
waste of labor. I 
limited, and from what 1 read of 1 decomposed, and then of 
in r 1 ' ° t S d“ to meadow fa“soont possible after haying, 
applying it as ^ promote a vigorous growth of after 
In applying it at this Urn t and as a protection to the 
math which ' s ':^ ua p^t s will not take up manure until it is decomposed 
meadow m winter PI t^ ^ ^ _ t must dec0m p 0S e in the soil before it 
If applied m < '■ ■ This takes a Ion 0 * time, especially in clayey land. 
is of any use to the plants Tins talkes aJion,,« . I t0 , the land . 
Manure acts 1 .f d 6 " d ^ is not taken up the first year by the plants 
If you apply it to the Lmd , t -ish enter into combination with 
certaS'^ngredients^in 0 the soil,' become nearly insoluble, and it takes time 
“ «> “*5“ SIX* ZZSZ2Z 
mm —. >“ t”,““ S "88S5 SR 
,„m .ii l »™“"Si““.ii. SSStnini, mmm 
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oneTalfhf talk,’wT^not’need' to'haul Z much water, and at the same 
K mp if a nlant food is rendered more soluble. 
Tohn Johnson, of New York, who is a very high authority in such matters, 
as much as three loads of fresh manure plowed under. 
E H. Seward, Marengo, related some experiments mad- 
with various fertilizers by the Kisliwaukee Club, of Marengo, 
Illinois. These experiments constituted severa varie l 
manures; barnyard, (M and decomposed plaster. 
bone-dust, and ashes, put upon equal amounts of ground, 
Sided resrdds, .He M "rep being corn. w.th be y l 
nvoduced o-reatly in favor of salt as a fertilizer, the salt cost 
Sk but four dollars per acre, while the barnyard manure cost 
eight dollars. , 
Hon Wm. Patten said such experiments were of real 
importance, and afforded great satisfaction. Too much guess 
work had been indulged in by the former _ He should kno 
exactly the results of his labors. He had thought to draw 
green rnann.e to .be field the best plan. It al.aye * 
