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Show Pag Tuesday, March 21, 1951 The Tooele Bulletin 4 K to be in the deficient range. It is of interest to note that nearly 0 percent of the sample measured greater than 150 ppm K tn Phosphorous -- Potash Status of Utah Soils the sod. The potassium content of the shown in f'gure 4 plant mat.-na- l than 2 perlilusimie that e cent of the sample approach the cent deficient level of one The data collected in this study substantiate findings from earlier field trials and survey. Polas sium d ficiences In held crops in L'lah are rare at the present time this is due to the high amount of potassium present in most of the By Re YOUR BREATH CAN SAVE A LIFE! I . Nielson, h.tMil on the xml More than Assistant Irolessor 7) x r font of ihe samplt-- show pr mg d'ln i, my m the so. hud de Department of Agronomy Utah Slate tniversity ma the in phoxphoru plum quale I ,r u I Thi failure of agreement Here's ihe Red Cross opproved Logan, llah the soil te.t and phos A sampling prog, urn has been betw-rmethod "mouth content of (hr plant ma In progiess for several years to phtirux of lives, thousands Ihof's tx saving explained on Mime determine the phosphorous and tenal can xiu-the fail the phosphorus ly polash status of Llah soils. A total of KIT Iim a lions representing tonient of the soil at depths be irrigation wafers. , Cl0( V.liml Th(OOl l.i-fi vus found at a lute of wolac, mucus, all the major irriguOd soils of the I'll' Iru STUDY show that if and Till: cons.Ji-ruhlhigh when a Hate have Inin sampled during xamplmg to be food, f pcasenl. develops deficiency potash S 0 to inch drptn tins period The study was re-- ; er than at the it will probably ocrur first in the 2. Till Hod bock to Mruled to fields growing alfalla This condition was not present coarse textured mils e pan th or postoga. nom. all however, in (informing Soils were taken at - to Rmov your mouthj In summary, the phosphate-levels listen for air return with of most Utah sods Is ade be.ng depth, 3. Mold Jow in jutting-oplant sampb-I IGt'KE 2 shows from the phov lungs. collected from the same area qua'e or is being maintained The total ulmve ground portion ofphnrus content of the alfalla by A lx hi I ten percent of the sites 12 times obout Repeal 4. How into mouth (ond the alfalfa lant was used in lhrk,,,lipx fur all samples These sampled are very def.cient and mmue far on odult, a il o victim it not, Sample All sites were sampled data indicate a general agree-jus- would benefit from applied phosobout 79 times a small child until you prior to the first cutting. The men! betwicn Ixith soil and plant phorus. Potassium does not apminute for o child. tha chest lit. m I values. he correljiion however pear to be deficient except Condition of the cmj) was iiot-in When the sample was collet ted s not s gmficant, rare cases. V, here the soil had been The daia collected to dale l class, . Series was recorded, ihut the Pia,or,!V of Ihe ir .SOIL SMIILS were analy red ngjt d sods in Utah are well for bicarlMinate soluahle phos supplied wnh phosphorus. This This form of artificial respiration has al.condition has phmus and ammonium resulted largely soluble potash. The pljnl materia from the use of manures ready saved thousands of lives. Your genand was analyzed for Unal phosphorus 'plwisjihate fertilizer, with a mim erosity helps Red Cross find new ways to Olid potassium. jber of soils contanmg adequate save lives. In order to evaluate the data phosphorus in them native slate it is necessary to make );,u ,rnm ,h s,uJ.V indicate that 10 Per vent of the sites a,)nl1 It has groupings suggested Good things happen when you help! by a number of workers that sampled are highly def.cient in and would benefit unis containing greater than 50 phosphorus Crooked leg calf disease, which pounds bicarlMinate soluable P205 considerably by the application of is found in most of the Western fertilizer. These de-- United States, is probably are adequately supplied Phosphate costing livestock he 25- - to 50 pound range is in hcient areas are widely sratier-thover om- million dollars a people Ihe state, with the greatest probable response area, while, year according to Dr. Wayne located in areas Binns, of the USDA Animal Dithose below 25 pounds are most'num,Mr 1,11 are not intensively farmed sease and Parasite Research Divihkely to respond to additional;" also be to con sion, at the Utah State phosphorus. It is generally ac-University Reprinted from Our Land and fixid and fiber and to supjxirt our copied that alfal'a containing lessjtinu,! a fertility program on many Uxpenment Station. Its tare . Published by the Na- - animal populaiion. This means than .IS percent P is deficient of ,,1 s,,lls n,,w "vll supplied in DR. BIWS and Lynn F. James lional Plant Food Institute that for every man. woman and ocder 1 to an I ij'ure maintain shows the precent of t ht adequate Animal Nutritionists are making Since our land is our greatest child in the Uniit-Stales in 1954 total samples grouped according phosp.horus level, study of this disease which has and most valuable resource, it is, there are aboui 2 6 acres of crop-we- ll to P2()5 content, in addition to! The potassium data collected been known to exist for approxito consider how much we land and over 6.3 acres of graz-hav- e. the precent of samples in each from soil and plant samples are mately 55 years and has been The land resources of land, or a toial of about nine group containing less than .18 per shown in figures 3 and 4. It may looked upon as a hereditary con tmental total acres for each person. As our United States cent P in the plant material. jbe noted from figure 3 that less ditmn affecting from 1 to 100 per 1,904,000.000 acres. The total land population increases the acreage It may he nop-from these, than one percent of the samples cent of the calves on individual areas in farms is 1,139,000,000 per capita naturally will decrease, data that nearly half of the sites' contained below 7 5 ppm acetate farms. acres, of which about 409.000,000 When we compare our land re- from their studies over the past sampled showed adequate phos-- j soluble K. Although deficiency nd crlpland. resources with those of other plrorus in the .soil and plant ma- - levels have not been established five years, it has been determined IWKiO.miO us'd,as to Mtl.r appre. ferial. Less than 25 per cent of' in Utah, it is likely that soils that this condition is caused bv Exclusive of forests and pasture. C()linIrl,Si we CJ grazing cjat0 our g00(j fortune xhe Unithe sites were highly deficient shoulJ contain less than 50 pp ingesting some toxic substance land the remainder is used for ted Kingdom has alxmt 0.3S acres through the water or feed. cities, roads, homes, parks, air of arable land per capita; France A number of chemical analyses fields, reservations, or is desert 1.17, Italy 0.83, Denmark 1.61, All-Purpo- se have lieen made on large num- or waste land. Belgium 0.29, Brazil 0.73, Argenbers of water and plant samples We have about 1,429,000,000 to determine presence of toxic acres on which to raise all our tina 4.0, India 0.73, China 0.50 and elements or the absence of mineral substances which normally should be present. THE CHEMICAL analyses were all negative. Feeding trials have THRU been run on cattle by using various RED CROSS range plants. The disease has ALL YEAR LONG been reproduced in calves from two cows which were fed Lupinus sericeus (a range plant) and lead Good acetate. The affected calves were of found the typical deformity YOU help under field conditions. All affected calves were killed when born on individual farms. They could never develop as they should because of inability to nurse properly and keep up the mother. The condition has varied from INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER'S year to year which is thought to be a direct relationship with the growth and maturity of certain plants on the range. 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