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Show Soil can now be fertilized by prescription "Plants, like people can suffer suf-fer from malnutrition even when fed heartily; and, like people, they become healthier if the proper 'tonic' is administered." admin-istered." According to Dr. Roy C. Lipps, chief western agronomist agrono-mist for US Steel, new research re-search indicates that so-called "minor" or trace elements are as important to plants as vitamins vi-tamins are to human development. develop-ment. "We don't 1hink of them as minor anymore," he stresses, "because our newest studies of western soils prove that small amounts of these plant foods make major differences in profitable crop production." In order to underscore their real importance to crop yields soil scientists now prefer to call them micronutrient elements. ele-ments. Careful soil research points out that vrt as zinc, corJl denum, and : used by p.J amounts, an J eff, ? growth. These net a score again z Jl portance of testing prop; said. While f c recommendafc" only through :1' can an indrcii.iv exactly what L J tains, its suru oiencies and r1' reports. e l Once fertilise, f e r t i lized "V j, which success, j takes the j; farming and r ) their profit ju particular ne: ( on a crop b; field basis, j: Soils with ;: J n levels accent lems where ri ficient supply. i |
