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Show CALLS FOR ORDERS FOR FERTILIZER Value of - Commercial Phosphorus on Alfalfa Has Been .Proved in County. R. A. Jones, western sales agent ag-ent for the Anaconda Copper Mining company, of Montana, will spend Monday and Tuesday, November 30 and December 1, in Washington county in company com-pany with County Agent Walter F. Smith giving lectures and lantern lan-tern slide demonstrations of the Use of treble super-phosphate fertilizer. Meetings with the farmers of the county have been scheduled as follows: November 30- 9 a. m. Leeds, Toquerville and New Harmony at Toquerville meeting house. 2 p. m. Rockville, Spring-dale Spring-dale and Virgin, at Rockville. 8 p. m. LaVerkin and Hurricane Hurri-cane at Hurricane schoolhouse. December 1 10 a. m. Enterprise, Central and Veyo, at Enterprise. S p. m. St. George, Washington, Washing-ton, Santa Clara and Gunlock, at Dixie College science building build-ing in St. George. Following the meetings with the . growers, it is hoped that enough interested farmers will be found to make up orders for a carload shipment of this fertilizer. ferti-lizer. It will take the cooperation coopera-tion of everyone to make up a minimum car, but it is the belief be-lief of the county agent and the farmers who have used the material ma-terial that there is nothing that will insure greater yields in hay, which will result in both cheaper cheap-er and better feed, than will this treble super-phosphate fertilizer. fer-tilizer. The use of phosphate fertilizer in Washington county . has not only increased the yields of hay from 50 to 150 per cent, but it has increased the feed value of the hay in a like proportion. There has never been a case of failure in the experiment in land that has been farmed for a number of years, and especially land that has produced large hay crops. A few farmers have reported re-ported no increased yields from the use of phosphate but their land has invariably been new land on which crops have only been grown a few years. One farmer in St. George claims that ho has increased his yields from nothing to seven tons per acre. Without fertilizer the hay grew so small that it could not be gathered with a rake. With fertilizer at the rate of 300 pounds per acre at a cost of approximately $9 he harvested seven tons per acre in five cuttings. cut-tings. Other men have had simi lar experiences. |