[Rob T]

Q: What is the Manure Spreader?

A: There are 3 manure spreaders. Red, Orange and Green when owned that can be used to to fertilize your farm or multiple farms.

Red manure Spreader ONLY fertilizes crops, and will produce 2 boxes of harvest instead of 1.

Orange Manure Spreader takes on the job of the red one, and also fertilizes trees and flowers too giving you 2 boxes of harvest instead of 1,

Green Manure Spreader - This takes on the job of both the red and orange manure spreaders AND allows you to fertilize All farms or a selection of farms with a single click.

NOTE: If you already own the Red Manure Spreader and you buy the Orange Manure Spreader, then every time you fertilize a farm using ANY of them, crops, flowers and trees will be fertilized. Fertilized crops, trees, flowers will produce 2 boxes when harvested and chop trees, 2 log piles when chopped.

When you upgrade to the Orange Manure Spreader ONLY the orange one will show up the yellow tool box, as it will do the job of the red one as well. You MUST own the red one in order to get the orange one.
If you then also upgrade to the Green Manure Spreader, then this is the only one that will show up in the yellow toolbox, it will take on the jobs of both the red and orange manure spreaders.

Notice you only need to fertilize a farm once, with any of the Spreaders, it doesn't matter which. The farm will remain fertilized for 72 hours.

How do I collect manure?

You need to have a Pigsty (facility section in the store) and you will need pigs in the pigsty which are a gift only item.
You will also need to own a Manure Spreader before you can harvest the pigsty for manure.
The collection process works the same as if you were harvesting other animal sheds, the difference is that in this case, the manure from the pigs is stored in your Manure Spreader tool.
Each pig produces 1 Manure Unit every 12 hours.

How do I know how many manure units I have stored?

Put the Manure Spreader into your Item Storage.
Open the yellow toolbox and mouse over the manure spreader. It will tell you how many units of manure you have. If the farm you are currently on is already fertilized it will also tell you how long it is fertilized for.
Example:

How do I fertilize my farm?

You need 50 manure units to fertilize a single farm.

To fertilize any farm it's best to store your manure spreader, then you can use it on each farm from your yellow toolbox. NOTE: Farm Cash Tools do not count towards your storage capacity, you can store as many of those as you want.

Open your toolbox and click on the Manure Spreader tool then click on the farm to fertilize it.

Once a farm is fertilized it will remain fertilized for the next 3 days.
All crops still growing (not ready to harvest) will be fertilized. All new crops planted while the farm is still fertilized will also be fertilized.
Once a crop is fertilized, it will produce 2 boxes instead of 1 when harvested, whether the farm is fertilized or not at the time of harvesting. If you hire others to harvest, you will get 2 Large boxes instead of one. Employees will get twice the amount of coins, and 2 boxes as well every time they receive an additional bonus box when harvesting.

When you buy the Manure Spreader tool, it will come with 250 manure units inside for you to start fertilizing right away!

You can fertilize a farm without using the toolbox if your manure spreader is on that farm, you can click on it and then click on Fertiize farm, but this is less efficient and slower to have to move the manure spreader to every farm.

To Fertilize more than one farm with a single click requires also owning the Green Manure spreader.

When using this tool you will see a window titled Select Your Farms which has 2 sections

The Select One Farm section will only let you fertilize on farm at a time.

To switch it to doing more than one farm click on the Select Multiple Farms section so the background turns orange, then add a check mark for each farm you want the manure spreader to fertilize. If you want it to fertilize All Farms you could click on All at the bottom of the window to select all farms and then click the green check mark.

There are also some other ways you can check if your farm is fertilized:

• By looking at the name of the farm you are on.
  
  A Brown background behind the name means the farm is NOT fertilized.
  A Green background behind the farm name means the farm IS fertilized.
  A white text for the farm name means the farm is not Irrigated, a blue text for the farm name means the farm is Irrigated.
  You could see any of these versions for the farm names:
  
  
  
• Go to the farm and open the tool box. Move your mouse over the manure spreader, it will tell you how long the farm is fertilized for and how much manure is stored.
  
  
• Click on your Yellow Tool box to open it, then click on the Show Times icon (looks like a clock) to open it. Look in the Per-Farm section and under Fertilize Farms it will have a green check mark if a farm can be fertilized OR it will tell you how long until you can fertilize each farm.
  
  
• Look at the colors in the green grid top left of your game screen, any farms that are fertilized will be olive green instead of green.
  
  
• Click on Show Names at the top of the green grid and then on "Show Extra Farm Info". The legend top left of that window will show you which farms are Fertilized, Irrigated, Watered and which are Quest farms, Private or Disabled for super neighbour farming actions. If you mouse over each farm it will tell you if there is another land upgrade available for it and what it will cost.
  
  
  
  If you move your mouse over this legend top left of the window it will tell you what the letters and each color represents. F is for Fertilized.

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