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THE GEORGIA CRACKER, SATURDAY OCTOBER 5. 1901
ELEMENTS OF
PLANT FOOD
organ concerned in taking the carbonh,
acid ont of the air. The leaf of the
plant is formed of very numerous little
cells placed side by side; on the under
side of the leaf there are air spaces be
tween the cells, and over the whole leaf
there is a thin skin. In this skin there
are numerous small holes through which
the air passes. When it passes into the
leaf whilst the sunlight is shiuing upon
it, through some strange vital power the
little cells of the leaf, under these con
ditions break up the carbonic acid of the
air, retaining the carbon and setting the
oxygen free, which passes out .again into
the air. When night comes the carbon
thus obtained, undergoes a change and,
passes into the circulation of the plant,
going to the various parts of the plant
where it may be needed.
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LETTER NO. 2.
Whilst few farmers ever find such a
perfect soil as I described to yon in the
last part of my last letter, yet every
farmer has it in his power to improve
the soil he starts with however poor it
may be or whatever its nature may be,
by judicious tillage, fertilizing, drain
ing, ditching, liming, sanding, claying
and terracing, according as the con
ditions of his soil may indicate. He
should especially consider his soil and
decide to what orops it seems to be best
sufted, and then devote his energies to
raising those crops rather than others
which thrive poorly. ♦
.If now we proceed to analyze
a soil as we did a plant a short
while since, we should expect to
find in it some of all the elements we
found in the plant, more especially ih
the ash of the plant. Let us take the
analysis of quite a rich soil; here is
about what we should have; taking one
hundred pounds of the dry soil, we
&mld, by mean of a careful and skillful
chemical analysis, separate it into the
following parts:
POUNDS PER HUNDRED!
These are elements
which the plant is ob
liged to have, but is
not dependent on the
soil for them as it gets,
most all it needs from
the air and the rain.
The elements in this
part of the soil are
either not absolutely
essential to the plant
life, or the plfhnt could
get along with very
small amounts of
them.
The plant absolutely
must have all of these
to grow and thrive,
and though they exist
in the soil, in small
quantity, the plant
needs them in large
quantity.
Now let ns analyze one 'hundred
pounds of wheat plants.
POUNDS PER HUNDRED i
Carbon..... .47.69
Hydrogen... 5.54 All of this comes from
Oxygen .....40.82 the atmosphere and
THE GOWmON ENEMY
So we see that growing plants tend to
purify the air by consuming its carbonic
acid gas, which is injurious to animal
life, and by giving off pure oxygen gas
in its place, which is beneficial to ani
mal life. Animal and plant life thus
stand in mufhal and beautiful relations
to each other. Plant life inhales car
bonic acid and exhales oxygen; animal
life inhales oxygen and exhales carbonic
acid.
The animal, in his lungs and blood,
causes carbon to unite wish oxygen to
form carbonic acid; whilst the plant in
its cells causes the carbon of the carbon
ic acid to separate from its oxygen.
Analysis shows the percentage of oar-
Thus
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You ought to know that indigestion,
bonic acid in the air to be small,
a hundred gallons of air is composed of:
Oxygen......... . .20 99 gallons.
Nitrogen ......... 78.98 gallons.
Carbonic acid.. .00.03 gallons.
small
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Silica,. ,,...71.35
Alumina...: 6-94
Iron..... .... 5.17
Magnesia... 1.0s
Soda........ 0.43
Sulph’e acid 0.04
INTERESTING
You say this is a very
amount of carbonic acid. Yes, is
seems so, but when you qome to
consider the enormous bulk of the air
There is so
ANNO UNCEMENT
it actually is very large,
much of it that the volume of air which
rests on one acre of your farm, calculat
ing for a height of only 50 fest above
the farm would contain 90 pounds
of carbonio. acid, gas, and. this amount
never, grows less, even # when the crops
are feeding on k it, because it is being
constantly renewed from other sources.
Therefore, whilst you need never fear
any lack of the essential element, car
bon, it is. well for you to appreciate
where it comes from and how import
ant it is. I have said the oxygen and
hydrogen found in the plant came-also
from the air; really they do not come
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Soda........ 0.09
Magnesia... 0.20
Sulph’c acid 0.31
Chlorine-... 0.04
Iron......... Q.06
Silicas ...... 2.75
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eanen and pressed. All work jgiu
rompt a tention. •
As you see these are
used in small quantity
by the plant and are
supplied in profusion
by the soil.
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Nitrogen.... 1.601 These the plant must
Phospfa’c acid0.45 J have or die. Most
Potash...... 0.66 [soils are deficient in
Lime........ 0.29 [ them and the farmer
must .add them to get
3.00 j good crops.
Thus you see, by a study of these
analyses, that von find in the soil the
same elements which we found in the
plant we analyzed in our first lettei*and
The carbon,
the roots of the plant, and the oxygen
and hydrogen, of which water is com
posed, are appropriated by the plant.
Yon, of course, appreciate the import
ance of these two elements of plant life
because you know only too well how
crops suffer in a dry season- We will
consider the other elements in our next
letter; ’>• Yours truly,
John M. McOandless,
' - State Chemist.
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also in this wheat plant,
hydrogen and oxygen which we find in
the soil are of little or ho use as plant
food because the plant gets its store of
those foods out of the atmosphere. It
derives its carbon from the carbonic
acid in. the air. You wilt remember
that I wrote you in one of. my letters
last year about the importance of water
and carbonic acid, and as it is apt here
t will repeat the paragraph:
“The w ac ®r from which the hydrogen
and oxygen come i§ given us free in the
form of rain, and the carbon also in the
form of carbonic acid which is breathed
out continually into the atmosphere by
every living animal on the surface of-
the earth; by every chimney and hearth
stone which warms a happy family; by
■every factory smokestack and locomo
tive which minister to our wants and
necessities. Carbonic acid forms the
principal part of all this smoke although
it is not the black part which we see,
but the invisible part which is clear and
ccdorless like the air. Vast streams of
it are pouring out constantly into the
air; why does it not stifle and suffocate
us as it would if poured into the rooms
where we live? It is because all plant
life lives on it, the great forests absorb
it. The crops of wheat, corn and cotton
consume it; the lilies and the roses eat
it and drink it. They take this deadly
gas into their wonderful little bodies,
and work it over and over,together with
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