Show arf Nitrogen Lack Lade Shows In Farm Crop Colors Pale Green Often Means Low Protein Content The culprit responsiblE for the pale green grren color and spindly growth of many pastures pastilles and fields of ot small grains last spring was lack of ot nitro nitro- nitrogen nitrogen nitrogen I gen according to toV W V H Pierre head of the tho agronomy department of Iowa n State Stat I college I I ICorn l i a i f a aCorn tl Corn shows slums nitrogen application And nitrogen deficient deficiency was also alsoto alsoto I Ito to blame for the firing or drying up of ot the lower leaves lea Ors of corn in inmany inmany many other fields Dr I Pierre asserted Nitrogen is the plant food ele ele- element element I ment that gives crops their normal green dark color and their fresh trEsh ap ap- appearance ap- ap appearance he declared Without enough nough nitrogen plants become pale green and spindly In corn when nitrogen hunger develops about mid mid- midsummer midsummer summer the older or lower leaves 1 of the plant turn yellow near the midrib and may gradually die Farmers sometimes mistake Ill ni- ni trogen-hunger trogen signs in corn for drouth Injury Where small grains And find grasses are concerned a II lack of nitrogen not only results In pale palo green color but later maturity and lower yields One of the other serious effects of nitrogen deficiency is a low pro protein tein content in crops for proteins cannot be formed without nitrogen This has an adverse effect in meat and dairy cattle raising for tor low law pro protein tein crops have a low feeding g Value Dr Pierre pointed out that there ther e AF g S-ii S Itt if 1 be added to the soils so that crof era cro p needs can be met One is n the growth of legumes another h I s through the use of manures and crop clo residues and the third Is through the th e use of ot fertilizers containing nitro gen I |