Show WHAT AMOUNT OF fertilizing ELEMENTS DO OUR TAKE FROM THE SOIL BOIL bv Y P CUTTER T way may bu be of interest coall to nil of us its to look into tho amounts of of phosphoric aci dand dind potash remond from froin the alic soil poil by certain standard crops it is only by the study of such facts that we can call arrive at a correct understanding of the value of manures inan ures and ail the real of roil foil exhaustion the following C table will abow approximately inia tely the number of pounds or of fertilizing fertilizing 0 in ingredients C from the soil by one ton of some ome of ho file more common crops GRAINS CHAINS c r arhos noa nitro choric gnu acid pota bit wheat 10 40 IG id 11 oate oat 38 13 S 32 14 28 8 G r CLAMS nr ASSEE lucerne 46 11 II 30 timothy 31 15 41 40 lisca may hay 31 8 20 26 ROOT BOOT CROPS tit turnips r n i ps 4 1 2 7 carrots 6 5 2 beets 4 3 0 6 corn loader fodder green 4 2 8 wheat straw 10 5 11 12 1 we can call readily see that the grains rains remove a comparatively large amount of nitrogen from the alie soil in proportion to their weight thus w wv 0 may expect that soils kept iu in wheat year after year will eventually be partially exhausted of tile the available nitro nitrogen en the most expensive element if in i the soil to replace the exhaustion will of course be manifest in the decreased yield per acre rc grai Grain naf salso also remove relatively largo amounts of the phosphoric acid next to nitrogen the expensive element another important fact is shown wheat straw contains per ton nearly one half the fertilizing ingredients that are found in the grain 0 grain itself if in ill any ally way the straw can be returned to the land it will help tu to relieve the drain from wheat culture grasses also remove large percentages ot of nitrogen and potash where the manure from animals fed on oh these grasses is not made mae of there is a steady drain on oil the soil roil where L grasses grasses are arc a staple crop this is true to a greater extent of timothy and other grasses than it is of lucern and ant other clavers clu vers As we have already seen luceau is able to take part of its nitrogen from the atmosphere and the roots of the luburn tend to enrich the soil at the expense of the air root crops exhaust the soil roil to but a slight extent compared with the wei weight ht that they remove the chief reason reason for this is to be found in the large percentage of water which they contain in comparison to the 0 grains rains an example will illustrate this difference potatoes contain seventy five per cent water wheat contains ony fourteen per cent wheat thirty tv bu bushel shelF of sixty pounds takes from the soil as much of the three fertilizing elements I 1 as bushels of potatoes and as much nitrogen as bushels of potatoes this leaves the wheat straw out of coil consideration sid crapio n if we take the straw into account allowing only an equal weight of straw and grain the figures would lie be wheat ani and straw of thirty bushels takes as much odthe of alic three e elements lern ants as bushels of potatoes and as much nitrogen nitro en as bushels of potatoes from the standpoint of boil exhaustion ha therefore it is better to sell potatoes than wheat for we sell the water in the potatoes potato cs at a high price and get aget a fair price for the fertilizing I 1 cre elements ments probably t there is no crop that takes so little from the soil as a fruit crop no one of tire fruits remove anything of great importance from the soil E even ven the new growth on a fruit tree will take less from the foil than a corresponding t crop of roots or in other words the roil exhaustion 1 per r acre for fruit ti cices tices ces is much less than alian for a root crop and the trees do not take much of the more inore expensive nitrogen but use more phosphoric acid and potash the same may lie be said of small fruits arid and garden veme vegetables n tables the farmer who 0 grows nothing to speak of but wheat and lucirn is drawing C on oil liis his capital instead of living on the interest as liu lie gli should put but if lie he feeds liis his lucern arid and puts the manure made by his animals back on his fielde lie he if is living on the interest of tile fertility of the soil although even then he is selling belling fertilizer every time that he fells a of of wheat but it is ia hard to make a farmer understand that manure iii anure is worth much especially in ill this thil new IM country ile ho is content to get alono along as a lie always diab for land is arid and soil fertility is el cheap ical will and lie knows wore about these chills than those book farmers to do any anyway way way there are ina im Z far farmer nier everywhere tet let i cinc of them try this use of manure on oil wheat and report ome of filet rc i figure up tit the co cost of hauling the manure and the gain in ill crop and fcc if it does docs not pay to keep keel up tit tit tho fertility of tin oil in ten tell years experiment in plowing V ili wheat eat sir J 15 lawes in 1 angland Engla ng land ml obtained abt the fol following lowin g 1 r results c average tell en years year without manure 1 lu els per acre average ten tell years with fourteen tons illan manure 27 bushels per acre average 0 weight of one bullick im hicl without manure mai iuri sa pounds average avar weight a of one bUS bushel liel fourteen tons manure 5 its S pounds this slums bois an air average gain of bix per cent by bv tile u SC c of of ordinary farmyard far inyard manure whether tin the same results bould would conic como front from its use in this new country itis it iq hard to tell I 1 arn am not advocating F the growing of as a method of enriching the toil nil and would not caie to i recommend thit method I 1 believe that the days of great money in the beef business have gone by hit but one thing n is certain present system ol 01 of tile tiie soil is kept hept h ept up there will not be any almoney an money in any business but the fertilizer business not being bein 0 a farmer far nier I 1 can do 11 nothing athing ca but call attention to facts anil and lit let li t the practical nien men study out the application for themselves |