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Excerpt from Barnyard Manure, Its Value and Uses Where the retention of moisture during a critical period of growth is needed for some special crop, no better blanket can be found than stable manure. When rain falls, the soluble portions of the manure are leached into the soil below to feed the plant roots. When drought prevails the coating of manure effectually stops the undue evaporation of moisture from the soil without depriving it of aeration. Tomato and pepper plants in the garden or forcing house, late potatoes and cabbages respond to the manure mulch. While succeeding crops will also derive great benefit from the manure plowed under. It seems likely that the marked benefits found in top dressing meadows with fresh manure may be partly due to the mulching effects of the manure which has settled down around the grass crowns where it prevents excessive evaporation, through the hottest days of summer, as well as feeds the shallow rooted grasses by leaching in the spring and winter rains. Without the machine spreading which properly distributes the mulch over meadow lands it would be well nigh impossible to secure uniformly good results. Although barnyard manure is a valuable asset to American farmers if saved carefully and applied intelligently, in practice it suffers heavy losses in value from at least three sources, all of which are avoidable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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