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we would notice very favorable results. 
His neighbor saved all of his liquid manure by having 
trenches made behind his animals. 
Lawrence : After 4 4. years of experience as a farmer 
he had come to the conclusion that the sooner he got 
manure onto the land the better results he would have. 
Leave it in the barn-yard and you lose the best of it. If 
you draw it out in the Winter, the rain that would waste it 
in the barn-yard will wash the substance of it into the soil. 
He had a neighbor who was a very ignorant man so far as 
books weie concerned, but who knew how to make money. 
He made his money by raising grain, cattle and hogs. In 
the month of June, as soon as he was through planting his 
corn, this man hauled out all his extra straw and spread it 
on his pasture. After the June rains came the grass soon 
made its appearance above the straw and in August he al- 
ways had splendid pastures when other farmers were suffer¬ 
ing from drouth. 
He, (Lawrence) used clover a great deal in manuring, 
kept some sowed every season. One crop of clover plowed 
in would enrich the land much more than we imagined. 
C. C. Buell: Was much interested in the question of 
handling manures. His idea was that we should draw out 
and spread manure daily. In Summer he did not draw 
any out from his yard unless it was being wasted by heavy 
rains. He liked the idea of saving fodder in Silos. 
He finds a wide-tired wagon a great convenience, one 
of these old-fashioned low ones. With one of these you 
can draw out manure when the ground is breaking up in 
the Spring, when you can’t use any other wagon. He didn’t 
