Bingham Bulletin | 1918-02-08 | Page 7 | Tobacco Impoverishes Soll

Tobacco Impoverishes SoU. It has been calculated that a ton oi tobacco withdraws more than a hundredweight hun-dredweight of mineral conTOtnents from an acre of laud. This would appear ap-pear to be an astounding waste of material, ma-terial, which must be of enormous value to the soil, considering that 79 per cent consists of calcium and potassium potas-sium salts and 15 per cent of magnesium mag-nesium and sodium salts. Including nearly 5 per cent of the essential con-stlt'ient con-stlt'ient to all plants phosphoric acll