Bingham Bulletin | 1918-03-08 | Page 3 | Tobacco Impoverishes Solf

Tobacco Impoverishes Soil. It hns been calculated that a ton ol tobacco withdraws more than a hun-dredweltfht hun-dredweltfht of mineral constituents from on ucre of laud. This would appear ap-pear to be an ustoundlng waste of ma-terlul, ma-terlul, which must be of enormous value to the soil, considering thnt 78 per cent consists of calcium and potns-slum potns-slum snlt and 13 per cent of nmg ncshim unci sodium srOts, including nearly 5 per cent of the ess(n1i:il con Ul'"t'! t to till plants phosphoric ucl 1