FARMYARD MANURE.
USE WITH SUPERPHOSPHATE. Farmyard manure is relatively high in nitrogen and potash and relatively low in phosphoric acid. For the best results, says American Hortigraphs and Agronomic Review, it should be reinforced with superphosphate, which may be spread over the manure when loading, at the rate of 501 b. per ton load, and broadcast over the field with the manure. A better method of using superphosphate on farm manure is to apply it in the gutter behind the cows in the byre at the rate of lib. per animal per day. This method of procedure not only yields the full plant food values of the superphosphate and the manure, but reduces the slipperiness of the floor, deodorises the stable, absorbs some of the liquid and an appreciable amount of ammonia gas, and very materially reduces the number of fles.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3399, 28 July 1932, Page 2
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