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Title: Soil culture and modern farm methods
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Taylor, Warren E. 1854- Deere & Co., Moline, Ill
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Moline, Ill
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and thoroughly pulverized in two minutes. The net comparative results were as follows: TABLE NO. 8 Farmer A Farmer B Farmer C Time loading Time going to field and returning Time unloading in piles and spreading Time spreading from wagon. _ 21 lU 32 641 21lU 28601 16111 Time spreading with spreader . . 2 Total time required 291 Cost of Handling One Load TABLE NO. 9 VALUE OF TIME OF MAN AND TEAM VALUED AT40 CENTS PER HOUR Farmer A, 44 cents P^armer B, 40 cents Farmer C, 20 cents Farmer A would haul 9 3 loads in one day, working 10 hours a dayFarmer B would haul 9 9 loads in one day, working 10 hours a dayFarmer C would haul 20.3 loads in one day, working 10 hours a day It costs Farmer A $88 00 to haul and spread 200 loads of manureIt costs Farmer B $80 00 to haul and spread 200 loads of manureIt costs Farmer C $40 00 to haul and spread 200 loads of manure It costs Farmer A $48.00 more to dispose of 200 loads than it doesFarmer C, and it costs Farmer B $40.00 more than it does Farmer C.
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Millions of Dollars Worth of Fertility is Wasted AnnixaUy byThese Brownies Increasing the Yield While the saving to the farmer by using the manure spreader is mate-rial, it is insignificant as compared to the increased yield in crops, whichis shown in the following table. The table showing the increase in pro-duction where manure is applied over that where no manure is applied,is also worthy of the farmers attention. Repeated trials extending over a number of years have demonstratedthe fact that a manure spreader used on forty acres of land will morethan pay the cost of the machine in one season by increasing the crop,to say nothing of the great saving in labor. The experiments of Mr. Chesney Hatch, of Newton County, Ind., arestrictly in keeping with hundreds of other like trials. Mr. Hatch ex-perimented by spreading manure on twenty acres and at the same timecompared the results with crops raised on similar land without manure. The results of his experiments given in the following ta

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