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Manure On The Top Soil

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Day
24
Month
November
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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"iln Old Country Man" writcs in the ('iinml'i Farmer : "Thorewere tliree knolls in iny fall whout field that 1 did nat think wero Bp to 30 bushels to the neTC ; and so, deterniined that I would if posslble have a good yield of that in my pot furiu, I drew 80Dno ten loads of well rottcd ycar-old barnyard raanure, and toi)-dressed the ■atheat upon these knolls. My man thongnt Ha terrible pity that I should waste good dung tliut way. ' Why,' said he, ' it will all dry out, and the juiee will go out of it.' It wus little uso to explaiii to him that upon these gravelly bilis, if wo plow nader our manurr, the essence is wasbed out of the reach of any plant by the tirst rains, that thero is no loss by evaporation when maiiure is thoroughly rottcd and is spread out, but only when heating. His answer was : ' I've boen most all over my part of Scotland, and I never saiv it dono before.' I took him to ♦iie top of a high knoll ; it was sown with Laü wliL'iit upon oat stubble. Tho oats Rad not been above six inches high upon this spot, and the land when turned up was b red-yellow hungry gravel. Manure had boen harrowed in horc upon the surfac just previou8 to drilling, and my man could not but allow that the plant was 'gorou8 upon that land which had - been only able to produce six inches of oat straw as upon any portion of the field. " I boliove tho principie of plowing under mnnuro should be generally abandoned. I read much in your valuable columns at different times, on this subject; but I wish gome of our old-fashioned farmers, who stick to the old ways because their fethitts lid Wfore them, would como out in black anti whtse, advanoe their plans of operation, their reasons and tho resul ts, and let the opposers answer them, and let Uie fight wax loud ; suoh ú tho way to Ktwe at a jtist conclusión on tliese points. Let those who differ f rom us take up the pen and set their joint opinions in type."

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Old News
Michigan Argus