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USING BARNYARD MANURE
TO BUILD SOILS
It is very, easy to got into the habit of
using only- commercial fertilizers and no
giocting tho uso of the most important by
product of the farm—barnyard manure, Tho
Extension Scrvico of Alaska has compiled
some very important facts concerning tho
uso of mantiro in tho building of soil in
Alaska,
Tho approximate annual production of manure
by various farm animalss exclusive of bed
ding, per 10C0 pounds live rroight contains;
POUNDS PER TON
Tan s
produced
TTorso 9il
Dairy Con: 13 01
Snino 15a3
Sheep • 6.;l
Eon 4c 3
Phosphoric
Nitrogen Acid Potas
sium
14.3 5.1 llil
12;'4 3.4 9.5
11.3 5.7 8;0
22.3 6.1 19il
20.0 13.3 7.6
Based on'the 1943 livestock survey the man
ure, producod in Alaska was 28,000 tons. The
i average Composition per ton is 10 pounds
nitrogen, 5 pounds phosphoric acid, and 10
pounds potassium.
The tdtal amount of fertilizing Clomonts
in 28,000 tons of manure is: 280,000 pounds
nitrogen, 140,000 pounds phosphoric acid,
and 280.000 pounds potassium. This is equal
to 17,500 One hundred pound hags of nitrato
■ of soda, 3,256 bags of troblo suporpho3~
jphato, and 5j600-bags of sulfato-of potash;
j a total of 2,635,600 pounds of 1,317.8 tons
of coimorcial fertilizer. To haul this
weight would require a train of 66 cars,
i oadh loaded to a capacity of 40,000 pounds.
! Or. tho basis of 1943 retail prices of com
mercial fertilizers" in ELaska the tota.L
, value would be 0122,137.0C. If 60^ of the
. fertilizing elements in the manure are
llost.it would yet bo worth 048,500. This
| is noro than the value of the commercial.
5 fertilizer shipped into the Territory in
■ 1943.
I BOLD TJE SOIL
j -laska is a new agricultural area. Bill its
farming districts becomo another gully
ribbed dust bowl of abandoned fains from
which productive top soil has been maenad
and blown? It all doponds ,tho Extension
cervico tolls us, upon mothods wo uso in
' form operations and soil management. .
ITaturc combines roots, living plants, ani
organic matter as a protective cover to
' old tho soil against wind and wator oro
I sion. Tho spongy, vogctabj.0 compost ab
sorbs precipitation, preventing rapid run -
off and loss of soil. It thus acts as w
■^osorvoir from which tho water gradual!}
ceps back into tho soil, Manure usod on
, fcho fields performs tho sar.o function m
:“arm soils.
Ar.ch ton of manure applied increases the
water-holding capacity of so^ many uimosn
It' will prevent approximate ,y one ton of
top soil from being blown away cr washed
1 ^arn&rcial fertilizers supplement manure in.
maintaini-.^ soil fertility": they nan never
-cpjace it in any permanent system of agrl
-uliuro. Propared by DON L. IRIil