Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-10-19 | Page 5 | Managing the Soil for Profit

MANAGING THE SOIL FOR PROFIT Soil Expert Advises More Efficient Ef-ficient Work and Suitable Plant Food. IndianapoliB, Oct. IS. Delogates attending at-tending the thirty-sixth annual session of the Farmers' National congress, which is being held here today, made a trip of inspection to the Moreland Biological Farm, near here, where Prof. Henry G. Bell, of Chicago, spoke on the subject, "Managing Soil for Profit." Professor Bell stated that it had been demonstrated reliably that great profit in increased crop yields and products of superior quality accrues to farmers when fertilizers of suitable analysis are properly used on soli in good physical condition. "Everybody knows," continued the soil expert, "that farm labor is becoming becom-ing scarcer and less reliable. Fortunately Fortu-nately more efficient farm machinery Is finding its way on the market. ThlB in itself is a great aid in meeting the labor problem. Approximately as much labor, exclusive of the actual handling of the products at harvest, has to be expended on a wheat field whether it yields 10, 20 or 30 bushels to the acre. If the addition of a liberal lib-eral amount of suitable plant food will obtain the higher yield, iB it not the essence of good business to riake the investment in fertilizer?" Other speakers on the program today to-day included Gifford Pinchot, who was to talk on "National Control of Water Power," and Dr. H. J. Wheeler, former director of the Rhode Island experiment station, on "Farming the Air." oo