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How We Applied Manure 
to the Land 
T GREATLY enjoyed Mr. Van Wage- 
a nen’s article on his father’s and his 
way of handling manure, and the great 
importance they considered it of saving 
all the fertility produced on the farm. 
I, too, had a father that tried to instill 
in my mind the great value of the manure 
produced on the farm, and the best way in 
his opinion to apply it. 
When I began farming for myself I 
thought I could raise a little better corn 
than he did, by putting the manure on 
the corn ground. Well I did raise some 
very good corn, but it made me a lot of 
extra expense in keeping the weeds down.- 
Our farms were just opposite each other, 
the town line road running between them 
and being of about the same nature, quite 
heavy clay loam. 
I was watching the results of his farm, 
as well as my own from year to year, 
when one day we were walking down 
through his meadows where the clover 
and timothy would cut to 4 tons to 
the acre. He said to me, “Boy, you are 
making a mistake in not putting your 
manure on your new seeding. Get a 
manure-spreader and after the oats are 
off give the land a moderate dressing, and 
what you have left put on to your next 
youngest meadows and you will raise a 
good deal more hay, and when you plow 
up that rich sod you will, with a very 
little commercial fertilizer to start it, 
raise just as good corn and do it with less 
hand labor.” « 
Needless to say that I changed back to 
the old way, and profited by it, too. His 
way was generally like this: The manure 
was run out with a litter carrier about 
100 feet in a large pile, of 200 loads or 
more, as he did not like to put it on in the 
winter time on the snow and without the 
spreader, and also if the next summer 
should be dry he would get very little 
good from it. But after the oats were off 
and the teams and men were not so busy 
he would start that manure-spreader 
agoing, and with it all picked up fine and 
the fall rains coming on, my, how the new 
clover and the aftermath would grow, 
and what a crop to leave on the ground 
to protect it through the winter and to 
hold the moisture the next summer. No 
wonder that his farm grew richer every 
year. I asked him once if he did not 
think that he lost a lot by rains, as he 
had no manure shed, and he gave me the 
same answer that Mr. Van Wagenen 
speaks of, “That we were bound to lose 
some whatever way you handled it, and 
that the rains did not wet down so very 
deep on so large a pile” and qertainly his 
results proved his assertion. 
He liked to show us boys that he 
could bring home the bacon, if he was 
well along in years and that he.could 
learn and did learn to run a Dodge car in 
his 80th year, which helped to sell a good 
many cars to us younger men who had 
our doubts about learning. 
I do not say that our way is the best 
way to apply manure, each one must try 
it out on his own farm, and in his own 
way.— J. P. Hutchins, New York. 
HAS FREEZING ANY EFFECT? 
1 READ Mr. Van Wagenen’s article 
on manures with much interest. 
About seven years ago an informal dis¬ 
cussion came up in a farm bureau meet¬ 
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agricultural school was present and 
condemned “piling under the eaves” as 
wasteful and advised winter spreading. 
I asked if freezing in piles released the 
nitrogen in green manure, if the loss 
would not be much greater when finely 
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Last year my com was raised on late 
fall-plowed land. I began at once after 
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put out the manure up to the time of 
dragging the land. My crop improved 
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planting and I estimate 100% gain in 
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