Show SOIL BACTERIA FOR LEGUMES IS NEEDED Provide Essential Organisms by Pure Culture Inoculation Can B Be Accomplished by Spreading Soil From Well Established Field Upon New Land Sour Land Sour Soils Solis Should Be Given Lime Prepared b by the h United States Department Department Depart Depart- ment of Agriculture For the most successful growth of alfalfa clover beans peas pens and und other leguminous crops the proper kinds of ot bacteria should be abundant In the soil solI When new legumes are grown for the first time In a locality the soil should be inoculated d with the proper bacteria b by artificial Inoculation In In some regions soils solIs are already supplied sup- sup plied lied with the proper soil organisms for or example In many Southern local local- ties ittes artificial Inoculation for cowpeas cowpens cowpens cow cow- pens peas Is unnecessary and In sections of the he middle West bacteria which thrive on the roots of clover and a alfalfa falCa arc are already present Artificial Inoculation can be accomplished b by spreading soil from n a well well- established field where the particular legume which Is to be grown has been success successful CuI upon the new land to be planted with that legume and also by bythe bythe the use of pure cultures of ot the proper prop prop- er bacteria The United States State department department department de- de de de- of agriculture is prepare prepared to supply enough of the pure culture to Inoculate one bushel of ot seed and this Culture can be obtained In bottles which contain complete directions for tor use Application blanks for these cultures cultures cul cul- tures ures lIJa may be obtained from the department department department depart depart- ment at Washington D. D C. C Pure culture culture culture cul cul- ture can enn also be obtained either free or at small cost from the various experiment experiment ex ex- stations Too much attention cannot he be given Iven to the preparation of at the field for tor le legu leguminous n- n ruinous minous crops In a n well-prepared well seedbed seedbed seed seed- b bed Cl th the young roun plants get et the hest best start an not the necessary bacteria will trill thrive Sour soils solis hinder and often otten entirely prevent the development of it the beneficial beneficial bene bene- soil organisms To remedy this condition an on application of lime Is net nee essary Any kind of ot lime may be used to a advantage but hut usually finely ground limestone Is applied When a field Is known to contain the bacteria suitable for a n certain le legume ume crop for crop for example alfalfa shown alfalfa shown by bythe bythe bythe the presence of numerous nodules nodule upon the roots of alfalfa plants growing there the soil Is desirable for the Inoculation Inoculation In In- ovulation of other fields upon which alfalfa Is to be sown for the first time Such soil well wen sifted can r readily n lly he tie applied to the new field through th the fertilizer attachment on a n drill Two hundred pounds or more of sifted field field fieldI soil will be sufficient for tor an nn acre and andis I is best applied through the hoes I |