The Fertility of the Land: a Summary Sketch of the Relationship of Farm ...
The Fertility of the Land: a Summary Sketch of the Relationship of Farm ...
Isaac Phillips Roberts
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13, Cornell Exp. Sta., 1889.) After 6 months' Fresh, exposure, per cent, per cent. Moisture 70.79 81.74 Nitrogen 51 .46 Phosphoric acid 21 .15 Potash 53 .31 Total weight of manure 529.5 lbs. 372 lbs. Value of one ton fresh manure $2.30 ** ** the same after 6 months' exposure 1.32 Loss 42 per cent. A block of undisturbed manure one foot deep, of cattle and horse excrements mixed with straw bedding, kept under cover and packed solidly by the tramping of cattle as it was thrown from the Cor- nell ...stables, was placed in a close-fitting galvanized iron pan with a perforated bottom, and left out of doors from March 31 to September 30. The fol- lowing table shows the loss which took place: TABLB LXXIX. Loss, per eent. Nitrogen 3.2 Phosphoric acid 4.7 Potash 35 Computed value of one ton before exposure $2.21 Value of the same ton after exposure 2.01 Loss per ton 9.05 per cent Experiments at New York State Station. 199 The compacted manure shows a far less loss by exposure than the losely piled manure does.
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