Claims
- 1. A method for reducing the amount of metals in agricultural runoff water obtained from soil fertilized with a poultry manure agricultural fertilizer, said method comprising:
- treating a poultry manure composition to be used as agricultural fertilizer by admixing said poultry manure with from about 5 to about 20% by weight of alum to provide a treated poultry manure; and
- thereafter, applying said treated poultry manure to soil as an agricultural fertilizer.
- 2. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein the metals are selected from the group consisting of arsenic, copper, iron, phosphorus and zinc.
- 3. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein in the treating step about 10% by weight of alum is admixed with said poultry manure.
- 4. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said poultry manure composition comprises poultry manure, bedding, spilled food and feathers.
- 5. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said poultry manure composition is obtained by raising at least-one generation of poultry in an enclosure to which alum is added in an amount of about 0.75 to about 1.5 tons of alum per ten thousand birds raised per generation in said enclosure.
- 6. A method as defined in claim 5, wherein alum is added to the enclosure before said at least one generation of poultry is raised and alum is added to the enclosure before each successive generation of poultry is raised in the same enclosure.
- 7. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said poultry manure composition is obtained by raising at least one generation of birds in an enclosure to which alum is added in an amount of from about 0.15 to about 0.25 pounds of alum per bird.
- 8. A method as defined in claim 7, wherein said alum is added to the enclosure in a single application.
- 9. A method as defined in claim 7, wherein said alum is added to the enclosure before a said generation of birds is raised therein.
- 10. A method as defined in claim 7, wherein said alum is added to the enclosure in a plurality of applications per generation.
- 11. A method as defined in claim 7, wherein successive generation of birds are raised in the same enclosure and alum is added to the enclosure before each successive generation is raised therein.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a Continuation-in-part of commonly-assigned prior application Ser. No. 08/437,991, filed May 10, 1995, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,622,697, which is a Division of application Ser. No. 05/129,742, filed Sep. 30, 1993, now abandoned.
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