Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1911 — Systematic Fertilizing. [ARTICLE]

Systematic Fertilizing.

Manure may be profitably applied to the soil at any time of the year in ordinary farming, but in intensive farming the application must be systematic, and in any case its value depends chiefly on the quality and condition of the material. It cannot afford food to plants until it is decomposed and soluble. Stable manures are generally more economically used when applied to crops during cultivation, yet where there is an abundance and it becomes a nuisance in the barnyard, it can be hauled out and scattered upon the land in winter. When applied in the 1 manner it may fail to give very goo’ results the first year and show well the following season^