Bingham Bulletin | 1918-03-08 | Page 5 | Tobacco Impoverishes Solf

Tobacco Impoverishes- 8oH. It has been cnleulated that a ton. oi tobacco withdraws more than a hundredweight hun-dredweight of mineral conirfi tuents from nn acre of land. This would appear ap-pear to be tin astounding waste of material, ma-terial, which nmt be of enormous value to the soil- considering that 78 per cent consists of calcium and potassium potas-sium salts and 1") per cent of magnesium mag-nesium and sodium suits, Including nearly 5 per cent of the essential coo-siltiert coo-siltiert to nil plants phosphoric acil