Show Find Phosphate Trebles I Crop Yield in Missouri I How Bow six bushels of wheat were added to the acre yields each cach time lime that pounds of acid phosphate were applied to the field Is strikingly Illustrated in the report of 01 M. M B. B Ditty Ditty Ditty Dit Dit- ty county agent to the Missouri l College of Agriculture Previous Pre to H 1024 24 the six lx and ne- ne half acre t Geld cid of S. S W. W VI iOlJ Lafayette Lafayette La La- Ca fayette ette county Mo I farther farmer near Mayview l re returned only six bushels of wheat to the lie acre That That fall he applied applied ap ap- ap plied OO pounds of 16 10 per cent acid phosphate per acre when the wheat was sown In 1925 h he harvested 12 bushels from this six bushel field A second planting of wheat on the thee same field in the fall with an additional additional addi addi- OO pounds of 01 10 per cent acid phosphate increased the yield to 18 bushels A mixture of alsike red and sweet clover sown on the 1920 1926 wheat returned 15 tons of 01 cured hay this season from Crom the six and one half acres At present car lot pric prices s the he tt e pounds of 16 10 per cent aci acid phosphate cost for each acre but returned six more b bushels of wheat the first year ear and 12 more bushels the second year a total of 18 bushels to the acre If the wheat is valued at 1 a bushel the lie returns for this labor approximate approximate mate mote 12 more to the acre ocre As the clover crop was also doubled the net returns for labor are even gr greater ater |