Show ER WHEAT YIELD D do everything possible to avoid another short crop plenty of barnyard manure and clover alfalfa or some other legume furnish nitrogen potash Is also needed dy nu F L dley missouri AgrI agriculture cultura experiment station careful and proper apte cautions against the Iles ily should be looked after this fall it we nrc are to do everything possible to avoid ginoth another er short wheat crop plenty of barnyard manure nud and clover alfalfa ot some other legume in rotation the nitrogen that wheat needs most clien cheaply ply but lime phosphorus and pot ush must sometimes be added in other ways the mount amount of available plant food in your soil tills this fall will be one of the tha chief factors in determining w wheat heat yield next year one of tin the principal causes of winter killing Is 14 poor fall condition on the better lands of the state this la Is not such n serious problem but on the medium to poorer soils it Is only under exceptionally favorable conditions that tho tha wheat will be vigorous enough to withstand a severe winter this fall condition can usually be improved by the use of some sort of commercial lizer it has been found by the missouri 0 url agricultural experiment station that tho the use of commercial fertilizers I 1 healthy wheat plants planta have slender leaves light green in color and as tillers are arc thrown up they spread and cover the ground on the wheat crop Is usually a good in vestment especially on the thin soils of the state phosphorus Is the element clement most generally locking lacking in missouri soils and hits has given very satisfactory money returns return whon when supplied to the wheat crop in some form of commercial fertilizer this element of plant food la is roost most commonly added by the use of such fertilizers ns as steamed bon boner ocal emeal acid phosphate or mixed fertilizers which carry a high percentage of available phosphoric acid on lands which havo hava a fair supply of organic matter fa to pounds of steamed bone meal or to pounds of ablao add phosphate will usually give very satisfactory is returns on poorer lands mixed fertilizers containing somo some nitrogen may often be roost most desirable potash Is needed for wheat on ronny many soils but the war has made it so BO high in price that the increased wheat yield will probably not pay the extra expense |