Show BURNING RUINS SOIL when you burn bum straw and other crop residues on the fiego you lose valuable nitrogen and dt stroy organic matter vital to soil sod re building and crop production if aiji u stalks of a bushel corn crop g gi up in smoke pounds of organs matter and 55 pounds of 0 nitrogen ni troge are lost when you light a matt male to a mature sweet clover crop 10 lose about pounds of 0 and three to four tons of organic mr matter tier it takes more effort to pla these materials under than it daei to burn them but an extra 10 to ta 3 bushels of corn per acre and a more fertile soil should be worth the 0 tra trouble |