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Show i oo I UTILIZING OUR PHOSPHATE AND SULPHURIC ACID ! In Weber Canyon are very extensive bodies of phosphate rock which some day will be utilized on the farms of this region. When the .phosphate rock Is ground and treated with sulphuric acid phosphate, a fertilizer which is said to be performing miracles mira-cles on the wheat farms of Ohio, is produced. With phosphate rock in Weber Canyon and sulphuric acid being obtained in large quantities quan-tities as a by-product of the smelters at Garfield, this state, the day may be close at hand when acid phosphate will bo an important product prod-uct of a plant in Ogden. A farmer gives this experience: "Last year a neighbor whose wheat field is in sight of my house used a high-grade acid phosphate at the rate of 260 pounds an acre on a part of his field; tho rest of the field was not fertilized. It was a favorable location lo-cation for wheat, and the soil was good. On the fertilized part of this field the wheat ripened evenly, and from a week to ten days earlier than where no fertilizer was used. There was also as much difference in the filling of tho wheat in favor of the fertilized part as there was In the difference in time of ripening. For the past few years institute lecturers have advocated only an acid-phosphate fertilizer with a systematic crop rotation ro-tation in which legumes are depended upon to keep up the nitrogen supply in the soil. The people have gradually gradu-ally come to this plan." |
