| Show of 01 solis bolls tito ilia term fertility ili now general ly used by ailers wille ri lers oil presses tile of if plant fund food fiat Is riblet in if lie soil sail ilia in n lorin form tu to bo be taken up by the hie growing crops this ferilli best measured by tile crops which tile aliu soil will pro uee but 0 owing lilg 0 losi o no anany modifying cau iem it h 14 safe to judge ii ige of the ht bile lie of fert fertility lIfty afan boll bollon only lv after three or inure more troi crops s have beti beeri grown A adoll aall may bo be rich but for boyne boine other reason produce fur for example cx amilo only ly a small email imp crop of lorn corn this year ow owing it be if to excessive dryness or poor seed acid and other modifying causes lull it la Is a nat ural question to ask whence this fertility come tuii ic find anil in ili what 1 helical find and compounds it consists in ili answering tills this juist loii tile the tenures features or of tin an infertile or barren or as it 1 li most frequently que tilly called till 1111 ct cx hausted soil will hill bo be brought forward ui its the ills it natural tural opposite of fertility A fertile soil boll one li Is capable under onder favorable circumstances of producing n paying crop must con into nil all of those clet kinen rients tf of fool food that agricultural pants derive fro from it I 1 the lie soil boil anil its as before ii fitted in ili it available v form this ihla last cladge hof great for the soil kiy m cou con tain ill n oi full complement of food awl eleine titi but lime have one or more lock old cd up of in some insoluble form forin in which it is 13 of very little use time tins has nil ali themo aln 0 elements u without having been added nailed by the hand of man may ile bo termed ratto ally fertile soil ono one that or itself will i cros crops ot of grain roots etc such tire nrc lie rich virgin boll boil or of tilt nil new loun coun arle us its the li dippi valley when they alln y here first rotten by b the plow alii much odthe of the fur far west weal thal it Is now flow being bi ing brought into cultivation A poll i oll that fiat is naturally poor or infertile may bo be mado it produce paying cripi by adding the elements of food in ili tile forn fonn of barnyard manure anure in or its ili equivalent quI valent in ili commercial fertilizers i in ili tile the same fly a sull soil that was vui oice at orally fl r I 1 I 1 I 1 e bu t 1 its beco ili e poorer by constant cro rop ping aln i may bo be restored to its original virgin fe fertility or kept dept in a ly fertile state to produce good this mit Is file dorkof work of tile tho cariner in it all old countries the forti fertility lity of tile soil boll Is 1 i life problem often pir per and difficult dill kult that idl fill fir far mers liters upon old land linn havo to work ork out during their lives with them the moll la Is it or ir perhaps pull aps more evidently it 1 1 in lil cli tile plants work nork find out of ciali materials supplied to tile the moll together on elliea with willi theme furnished by hyner air they make inake the subi lanco of their stem leaf fruit and grain in this sense a larna large firm farm inay be it thou sand acro factory fat tory where grallis grains and fruits leaf find wool tire wade from tho the crudo crude materials which must in ili good part be ba supplied by tile the farmer ta tile the soil boil all ali of the fa in tile the countries of the old boltl world and illuce the older settled parts of tile now Is of this factory kind where there tho the most moat successful firmer farmer la Is ho he mic knows best liow how much of tile raw material lu to put jut into tile tho factory tory find liow low and when it Is best to do it ili iio is also tile hie otic who runs tile alio grain and leaf prod acl jig anih amill with life iho grelite st with the wear and tear upon alie lie nia chinery so to speak and belli ills ut at tile tho right nud place find and there fore tit at tile tho greatest profit there Is another stylo of farming which ii isioro largely in ili america than tiny filiere lur else oilie namely the farming upon new and rich sull soil a soll soil that has ha it virgin fertility sufficient to grow large crops and no lie addition or fertilizers or of tiny kind is needed tha fact that we line have such land and such auch fa firmin fir mii ii felt the alie world ovir over unit and gives the american virgin soll soil farmer anmer certain important advantages over all who A ito must ned fied their soil beauro a crop un call be raised haltli lilt it Is process of taking off iruin froin tho the soil poll with no corresponding return and lor for it a time tile hie products of grain beef lie etc ton call be sold inure cheaply thin than tile s une can call lie be grown a where uh eroin tit expenditure giua be made tn ide tn ili fool foi I 1 fur for the soil boll licit blutas ad fertility li aino so largely larg fly depend ent cut apon the amount of nitrogen it in tho the soil find tills Is 14 stored up only kiil by previous generations of pla tite any ani bovere bevera cropping cioppi ng I 1 ln it which more ni til trogen Is removed from tile the soil in ill tile the crop than ali in Is formed furnad find and stored up in the soli soil during tile saine s line perl peri adwill oconer or later calir liing the most fertile soil tu to a state lion thersuli The I therefore fill an end though it may be many hence to the virgin oll oil farming in augerl LII it when all will engage in ill tile the give and take system or sul supply Ply and deni demand and bract I 1 ce that Is supply the soil with its quota of al food and demand in ili return it fa fair ir fur the expenditure if in tile iho ariale ora when till fill competition be iween m the alie new find the old lands land will be more aind our my by stew item of agriculture will become evi dent bemuse to all allcon cop Cor Coun country tre illeman |
