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Agricultural Jottings

Volume : 24
Issue: Dec-dec
Pages: 391 - 393
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The Preservation of Cattle Manure.Cattle manure is collected and stored by cultivators,generally in an unsatisfactory manner.There is loss of manurial ingredients occurring in the manure heaps made by them.and such losses could be easily avoided.When the cattle dung.waste fodder and other farm waste available are property stored in pits day after day. there is fermentation taking place in the materials leading to their disintegration and when well made,the resulting materials is rich. blck in colour. uniform and powdery in apearence.When the manure is heaped in the open.the decomposition of the constituent materials is incomplete and a fair part of the heap is dried up and is in lumps There is onsiderable aeration inside the heap and volatile poducts of decomposition.which are rich in nitrogen are lost. During rains.the heaps are soaked with water and the soluble portions of the manure rich in nitrogen are washed away and the cultivator is again a loser.

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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