THE USE OF POULTRY MANURES

Northern Advocate, 16 February 1926, Page 6

THE USE OF POULTRY MANURES

A’VALUABLE COMMODITY. Poultry manure is too valuable a commodity—or ought to be—on any h'olding where food crops are grown to be thrown out in a get-rid-of-it sort of way. It is worth all the labour entailed in carrying it into a storage shed'or to a compost heap. Where it is mixed with vegetable refuse, ultimately to be used as a substitute, for stable manure. And, after all, even if the holder of fruit land does not include vegetable growing or market gardening, at least he needs food crops for his own use and greenstuff for his fowls. Poultry manure properly used will prove an excellent fertiliser for the production of both of these and save the grower many pounds in other less satisfactory manures.

Although there is not a month in the year during which poultry will not be able to find and'destroy some insect pest in a fruit orchard, the season when these creatures are most abundant is from November to April. But one’s object always should be, on behalf of both the fowls and the frees, to keep the ground as fully occupied as discretion will allow at all seasons, and to stock the holding with poultry, so that'every part of the area gets its fair share of the dual occupancy.