Show HOW AVOW ABOUT COM MERCIAL the farmers of utah are tor for the first time facing the problem ol of commercial fertilizers in certain parts of the state especially sn in the trucking areas farm manure is not plentiful Be because causel of this according to prof geo stewart of the utah experimental station there is almost constant demand tor for information as to what sort of commercial fertilizer to use and how much unfortunately there Is no real knowledge that permits an accurate answer to this question the experiment peri ment station lias has just obtained a farm at logan ou on which experimental work ork with commercial fertilizers Is about to begin but several years will be necessary before anything like definite information is acquired this Is by no means an easy task because different crops in the same soil and the same crop on different soils require different fertilizer treatments sometimes only nitrogen sometimes only phosphoric acid sometimes only potash is required the application of substances not needed is waste of money for the farmer and Is a bad advertisement verti tor for the fertilizer merchant who must depend on profitable increases in yield to build up his business haphazard sale of complete fertilizers is expensive to every body concerned in the end the farmer will purchase ruse nitrogen or potassium and and not just fertilizer |