Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-05-02 | Page 20 | Fertilizing Corn Land

FERTILIZING CORN LAND No Xo fixed rule rille can bo be laid down for Cor fertilizing corn land because of o the time dif hf difference dl ference cronce In the quality ot of o tho soils soli I S LongS Long a L Pennsylvania farmer armor who has hag raised rained b p poi M acre says ho houses hi uses no itO commercial fertiliser fertilizer but hut n a large laro amount of o plant food Is provided through other crops rop previously grown rOII j Soil Soli In his section lime Iliac In large quantities and corn cent Is grown Frown In rotation with clover every oel third year to lo supply nitrogen Mr II Long turns lurns under all nil vegetable I matter mailer possible inthe In Inthe Inthe the fall which Is worked up Into time the soil sell the time next spring On ome Indiana lands phosphorus and nrc are used to good advantage a Rn tage tal age the tho mixture consisting of oC one ono pan pait of o phosphorus to two of In the tho south fertilizer Is applied through h an attachment to lo the planter or with a L wheat drill drillOn drillOn drillOn On heavy heay muck mud soils solis soli pot potash potash ash anti and phosphorus are arc used u d often at ata ata a cost of ot from Crom 35 5 to JS S 8 p par r acre In the tho th states stales H tei however time the principal fertilizer Is stable manure and on the tIme corn soils of or these states staten 3 I perhaps p no better fertilizer could bc bo applied Iii i IH ny 1 Of course tho ho elements necessary RIAr to lo logrow grow brow corn are arc nitrogen potash and phosphorus and anti some somo soils Holls arc are often otten short In one on of oC these Be elements element which must bo supplied d In some form or other There arc thousands of oC acres acre of or swamp stamp land In tho the states which con contain tain eli all tite e ol for or plant growth except potash and when this is its ap applied plied piled good cropt are arc obtained Ono One of ol the cheapest and best bert ways R 3 of oC enriching the soil soli Is to plow under leguminous plants and many man thou thousand thousand sand acres of land In iii the time older corn states that have havo been cropped to corn cornor for or thirty to forty ort fort years yearN In succession I and whoso whose vitality has ha been boon exhausted Is now no being restored and mado made to produce good crops crop by h a simple method of ot rotation and plowing under logu Jou I crops crop I