Show Fertilizer Aids Farmers Farmer's Income come One of Best Means of Increasing Increasing In In- creasing Productivity and Helping Soil Prepared by the State Department of Agriculture If It all the fertilizer fertilizer tons of or It used It-used used annually by hy farmers of the United States were sold In bags It would 1 take tule nearly a n hundred million of them says Dr Oswald Schreiner chief chic of the division dl of oC soil fertility of the bureau hureau of chemistry and soils soll- United States Department of ture Help Productivity The use of or chemical fertilizers he says S Is ls one of the best means of Increasing In In- crea creasing productivity and antl Improving soil soli fertility It Is conservatively estimated estimated esti mated that for every e dollar Invested In fertilizer the average return Is about 3 3 The Cite reason renson that farmers are arc buying liuying worth wort h of ot fertilizer n a year Is that the the best best farmers of ot the country know that It pays s 's them to use fertilizers Summing up the relation of or fertilization to farming under present economic eco ceo conditions Doctor Schreiner says With the present high cost of ot labor Increased acreage Is not so advisable ad ad- ns as Increased production per acre Under present costs of or production production production tion the proper use of oC fertilizers offers offers of of- fers one of ot the tho hest best ways WD'S for the AmerI American nn farmer to increase his farm Income An acre of underfed plants struggling for growth and reproduction tion means menns not more probably less les- than titan an average yield of or crops the selling price of which is absorbed to meet the costs of or Interest taxes cultural operations and seed If there Is to be an any profit it must come from train n a hl higher her yield Therefore It Is hotter better to produce a n high and profitable profitable profit profit- able yield on less acreage titan than an average yield on the full acreage This Is true of all nil crops Doctor Schreiner says that Intelligent intelligent Intelli intelli- gent application of lime and complete fertilizers ma makes es It easy to double or triple yields Ields of pasture grasses and anda and and- n a point which Is more Important but butIs butIs butis Is often overlooked by dairy farmers to to Increase b by this means menns the proteIn protein protein pro pro- tein lime and phosphorus content of ot the grasses Such forage often Improves Improves improves Im Im- im- im proves the health of ot the stock and antl Insures against mineral deficiency diseases diseases diseases dis dis- eases and nutritional abortion Dont Don't Expect Magic Doctor Schreiner warns farmers that they thov must not expect fertilizer to work magic or to make up for shortcomings shortcomings short short- comings of oC crops soils solis poor seed In Inefficient Inefficient inefficient In- In efficient spra spraying Ing poorly plowed and cultivated land poor drainage acid soli soil or for a low supply of oC humus Use manure to Improve your soils solIs Grow green een manure when you cannot get stable le manure Then you ou will ha have hae e better returns from your fertilIzer fertilizer fertilizer fertil fertil- izer he advises farmers and points poInt out that there Is a specific quantity of fertilizer which yields the maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum profit In nn any given case and the amount varies arles greatly with different crops and different soils and Is greater great great- er by far for price high-price crops crops' than for priced low-priced crops clops |