Millard County Chronicle | 1928-01-26 | Page 2 | Find Phosphate Trebles Crop Yield in Missouri

Find Phosphate Trebles Crop Yield in Missouri now ilow six bushels ot of wheat were added to the acre yields Ields each time that pounds ot of acId phosphate were applied to the field Is strIkingly Illustrated In the report ot of M I. I B B. B Ditty Ditty Dit- Dit ty county agent to the Missouri College of at AgrIculture to 1924 1124 the six It and one one- halt half acre fald of S. S W W. Vivion Ln- Ln layette fayette county farmer near l returned only six bushels ot of wheat to the acre That fall he hc applied ap ap- plied pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate per r-er acre when th the wheat was sown In 1925 1 he harvested 12 bushels from this six bushel field A second slanting of wheat on the same field In the fall with an addi pounds of 10 per cent acId phosphate Increased the yield to IS 13 bushels A mixture of alsike red and sweet clover er sown on the 1920 1020 wheat returned 15 tons ot of cured hay this season from the sIx and one halt acres At present car lot prices the pounds of 16 10 per cent acid phosphate cost for each acre but returned I six more bushels of wheat the first I year ear and 12 more bushels hus-hels the second year a total ot of 18 bushels to the acre It If the wheat Is valued at 1 a bushel the returns for thIs labor mate 12 more to the acre As the clover er crop was also doubled the net returns for labor lubor are are even greater greater