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HARRIS 
SEEDS 
The How, When and Where 
of Spreading Manure 
T HOSE of us who were brought up on 
dairy farms and have passed the 
fortieth milestone along the highway of 
life, do not need to use the imagination 
to understand the conditions described in 
Mr. Van Wagenen’s article on the 
handling of manure. 
Most of us have had first-hand expe¬ 
rience with those methods which were in 
vogue some 30 to 40 years ago. In those 
good old days the winter quarters for the 
dairy herd was usually a lean-to built 
along one side or one end of the hay barn. 
And the “chores” through the winter 
consisted of foddering two or three times 
per day, turning the cows out once a day 
to go a half mile or less to fill up on ice 
water, and shoveling the manure out 
through several window holes with slide 
doors in them. The accumulated manure 
of a herd of 15 to 20 head of stock assumed 
no inconsiderable proportions by the 
time spring came, and it was frozen 
practically all the way through. 
“Something to Be Gotten Rid Of” 
The first farm work in the spring was to 
attack this frozen mountain with axes, 
pickaxes, crowbars, forks and shovels, 
and draw and spread it on some field. 
Of course it went on in chunks and fork¬ 
fuls and did not cover so very much 
ground. But what did it matter? The 
virgin soil of most of these farms pro¬ 
duced sufficient to satisfy the needs of all, 
without fertilizers. Manure was some¬ 
thing to be gotten rid of as easily as 
possible, rather than a valuable sub¬ 
stance to be conserved and made as 
profitable as possible. 
But the virgin soil gradually lost its 
fertility, and more and more the farmer 
was forced to recognize the necessity of 
providing some fertilizer if his fields were 
to continue to produce profitable crops. 
In my experience as a farmer I have 
made the efficient handling of manure 
something of a hobby. In frequent drives 
about the country in different directions, 
I have made it a point, so far as possible* 
to observe the different methods of 
different farmers and also, as far as pos¬ 
sible, to observe and analyze the results 
of those different methods. 
There are some definite conclusions 
which I have arrived at in my own mind, 
and which I have endeavored to incor¬ 
porate into my own practice. 
The first, and to ray mind the most 
important of these conclusions, is that 
for general farm crops under average 
conditions, a light fine coat of manure is 
more profitable than the same manure 
spread thicker on less land. The good 
average crop over the larger acreage is 
more profitable in a general way than the 
bumper crop on a small acreage. 
“Spread It Fine and Far” 
Hence my slogan is, “spread it fine 
and far.” So much for the how of it. 
But where and when to spread it is 
quite another question. Here again expe¬ 
rience and observation come in and formu¬ 
late a set of rules, which with reasonable 
variations to fit individual cases, will, I 
believe, enable most, of us to get the best 
possible returns from our investment iu 
manure. So far as “where” is concerned, 
the most profitable place is the new seed¬ 
ing first, with a fine even coat. 
One of the most successful soil-builders 
and crop-getters I have ever observed 
covers his new seeding first and spreads 
the manures. It is not thrown in chunks 
off of a fork but every bit is shaken 
through a six tine fork. It takes time and 
work, of course, but in his case it is cer¬ 
tainly very profitable time and labor. 
Second choice of place falls on the coming 
season’s corn ground. And on most farms 
there will be enough to give the new 
seeding a proper coat and to get quite a 
start on the corn ground. Third choice 
rests on year-old meadow. 
There are some factors which must be 
taken into consideration in determining 
the time to spread. On reasonably level 
land which is not subject to overflow or 
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