Show THE FERTILITY PROBLEM Utah Farmer Soil fertility Is the basis of agriculture agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture and therefore of civilization On a depleted soil there cannot bb bt produced a strong citizenry hence the importance of looking well to this phase of or our industry In our Issue of May 20 we publIshed published published pub pub- an article on this problem 01 of soil fertility written by a man who has bas made a thorough study of the situation and who is therefore entitled entitled en ell titled to speak He states that In order that a sixty acie acre farm might have applied to it tons of manure annually Wh is approximately the amount needed to maintain I j the fertility livestock livestock with an aggregate weight of pounds must be kept This is provided provided provided pro pro- vided too that all of oC the manure is Js saved which Is not usual usually the case There will always be an inevitable loss so that the n average farm should hould keep considerably more mOle than this Farmers would do well to figura ut clos clo closely elV fertility L nr and I see that the they are maintaining the supply of plant food in the soil ItIs Itis It Itis is a serious thing indeed if the PH sad ad sadis adis is handed down from generation to generation each one taking out something and replacing not noti 11 The Tho sure result in the tho end will be im fm impoverishment and abandonment 0 n |