The other day I watched an episode of Magnum P.I., a television series
that ran in the very early 80s. Magnum P.I. was based in Hawaii. Not
to get into any specifics but in this episode Higgens had ordered a
pallet of dried manure to place on the lawn to increase nitrogen (as he
claimed in the show). At the end of the show they show him shoveling
this manure and throwing it right onto the lawn.

Does anyone do this and is this better than the standard weed and feed
that you get at the local big box store? I'm a bit curious as to the
properties of manure since I'm thinking of experimenting with it as part
of my soil mixture in my container garden this year but I don't want to
add too much.