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Report New Jersey State Department of Agriculture 1919-1920 Bulletins 21-21
Report New Jersey State Department of Agriculture 1919-1920 Bulletins 21-21
Hard Cover Some light staining, see photos.
369 pages
Copyright 1919
CONTENTS
Bulletin #21
Importance of City Manure 6
Classes of City Dealers 7
Difficulties of the Business 8
Stable Practices 9
Gathering and Loading 11
Some Objectionable Practices. 13
Watering Manure . 19
Relative Value of Straw Manure, Shavings Manure and Street Dirt 21
Shrinkage 23
Methods of Storage 24
Proper Care in Storage 30
Methods of Buying 31
Suggestions 32
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. A carload of good straw manure 6
2. Loading on cars. A New York dock-11
3. Scow partly loaded at a Philadelphia wharf 12
4. Car being loaded with street dirt, leafy garbage and other refuse 13
5. Layer of sawdust over straw manure in bottom of ear 14
6. Hose running on car of manure 14
7. Shavings manure . 15
8. Gathering refuse and street dirt from city dump in Philadelphia 16
9. Unloading two loads of street dirt gathered, as shown in Fig. 8, and one load of 'manure into car 16
10. Street cleaning department wagon unloading at manure car 17
11. Inside of car shown in Fig. 10 17
12. Near view showing cinders and stones mixed with manure in car 18
13. Manure dumped in puddles of water before loading on cars. A practice sometimes followed to increase weight 20
14. Carelessly constructed heaps. Loose, low and not squared up 25
15. Well built heaps at Cheesequake 26
16. Low heaps with sloping ends at Swedesboro 27
17. Large, low, flat heaps along Pensauken Creek 28
18. A long, high, well built heap of manure showing sprinklers in operation. Unloading crane in foreground 29
19. Near view of heap shown in Fig. 18 29
20. Two ways of supplying organic matter and nitrogen; purchased manure cowpeas grown as green manure 34
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