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DOUGLAS COl
Better Farming in the South
HOW CROP YIELDS ARE UMITED
The Weakest Element of Plant Food Fixes the Crop Yield, Just as
the Weakest Link Fixes the Strength of the Chain—Only
By Fertilization Can the Weakness Be Removed.
Plants must feed
to grow. Four es
sential food ele
ments come from
the air and six
from the soil.
Only three of
those that come
from the soil fall
short of crop re-
quirments and
have to be sup
plied by man if the
greatest yields
are to be obtain
J. C. PRIDMORE ® d * Theae w*e Ni-
Agronomist
trogen, Phospho
ric acid and pot
ash. Every soil may be said to have a
limiting factor of production. This
may be a shortage of some plant food
element. If so, this should be sup
plied through fertilization if the larg
est possible yields are to be obtained.
No matter how much of other plant
food a soil may edntain, if there is a
shortage of nitrogen, for example, then
nitrogen will fix the limits of produc
tion. Likewise with phosphoric acid or
other elements.
Plants differ from animals in taking
food, in that plants will take foods
only when the elements composing
them are in soluble form, that is, when
they are dissolved in water. When
one element is deficient, the plant
ceases growing.
shQrtest plant food element represent
ed here by a stave, limit the possible
production of a crop?
If, for instance, there is only enough
nitrogen in the soil to produce 20
bushels of corn or 176 pounds of cot
ton per acre, while there is enough
plant food elements of other kinds to
•produce enormously more, how tlien
can greater yields be obtained than the
nitrogen will permit?
The problem of plant feeding is,
therefore, no simple one. It has en
gaged long and most careful investi
gations of scientists, who have delved
deep into the mysteries of how plants
feed and what they feed upon. On the
basis of the most exact knowledge thus
obtained, modern fertilizers have been
manufactured. Soil deficiencies, or
“limting factors," modern fertilizers
are designed to remove, and to call
into fullest action the natural re
sources of the soil.
Since there is a limiting factor in
all soils, it is worth while for each
farmer to undertake to remove that
limitation. Intelligent use of fertiliz
ers will accomplish it, if food elements
be this limiting factor. In no ether
way can it be done than by the help
of man. He must bring to the plant
the food it needs and cannot find when
this is the factor limiting producton.
The plant, of course, must be given
the best of surroundings. It must not
only have plenty of plant food, but
the soil must be properly drained of
excess water. It must be well supplied
with lime, and organic matter; its
moisture must be conserved, and
weedB killed through proper cultural
methods. These things man can pro
vide. Therefore, if man is not the
"limiting factor” and he looks after
llie plant food requirements, the great
est possible yields will occur.
To illustrate In another way, ob
serve the picture.
Here is a vessel made of staves.
Each stave may represent a food ele
ment or other factor of crop produc
tion. Some of the staves are shorter
than others. Does not the shortest
stave then determine how much water
4he vessel can hold, and does not the
Hannah
PASTURE VELVET BEANS.
Inquiry—“What is the most profit
able use of the Velvet Bean?”
Plant the velvet bean in the com
and get a double crop. They do well
together. Plant an early variety and
fertilize for a good growth.
The most economical use of velvet
beans is to let cattle feed on them
in the field and then to turn under
the vegetable matter remaining. If
there are not sufficient cattle on the
place, get them and feed them. Why
go to the expense of gathering beans,
grinding and shipping *he meal off to
some one else to feed and get the
benefits?—J. N. HARPER.
Pe pie are patriotic in this
corner, if planting food crops is
any evidence. Another proof is
every Ford is diaped in Old
Glory. I don’t know which it is
that people worship the emblem
that stands for pat iotism or
whether it’s just popular to have
one on. I will watch those folks
and seejf they really mean to love
Old Glory or just trying to stimu
late the other man so he will do
the fighting.
All-true patriots wifcno doubt
attend the speaking at Hulett
next Monday night. Dr. Black
mon has for his subject “The
Confession Box.” Dr. Black
mon i3 not an unknown man in
the fight. He was in Texas
when William Black was killed
by the K. C’s., and was himself
shot, and is carrying the assas
sin’s bullet up and down the lard
trying to warn the people against
a foreign element tha.’s under
mining our civil and religious
liberties. The doctor will be at
Hulett the first Monday and
Tuesday nights in May. The
following night he will lecture at
Ebeneezer church. Boost the
meeting and give the doctor a
whooping crowd. And son, he
will tell you ho v a patriot acts
and the weapons he must use
to preserve our liberties.
J. M. Wilson,
STOCK FEED OF ALL
KINDS
We handle sweet feed, hay, Red Gravy, Velvet Bean
meal, bran, shorts, oats, beet pulp, cotton seed meal arid
flaked hulls. We buy in car load lots and can save you
money. We sell for’eash oniy.
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55 W. Mitchell St.
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Too Much.
“There is such a thing as carrying
one's love for poetry too far,” stated
Grout P. Smith. “Yesterday while my
wife was attempting to hang up a por
trait of the poet Goethe—I reckon ha
was a poet, or something—she fell off
from the stepladder on to the cat,
wrenching her back and also that of
the cat.”—Kansas City Star.
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THE TUGGLE SHOE CO.
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The Cheapest Rate of the Year
ROUND $14-50 TRIP
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TO
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