Show lion pays XI ush dividends save ave the soil methods at purdue prove ideal A soil conservation system corn com billing the teamwork 0 of large amounts of fertilizer contour farm ing manure and chyi deep rooted leg umes not only saves aves sorely needed rainfall and reduces reduce the loss of 0 SOU soil or ganic an c matter and plant food th through r 0 ugh i runoff but also promotes greatly increased yields ol of corn wheat and hay according to glenn bedell such a system pr proved oved its ita benefits at the purdue station the test was conducted in 12 small fields I 1 from r om 1012 1912 through 1945 all the fields had three year rotations corn wheat and and meadow six however were alore wa farmed with common ter boosts practices the corn yield other six with a conservation system on the fields which had the benefit of extra fertilizer contour cropping p ing manure lime and deep rooted legumes the water loss from runoff for four our years was eight inches compared with 17 on fields farmed under the com common mon system soil loss was only 18 tons under conservation tio against 88 8 8 tons with the common system organic matter losses were and pounds respectively while those of nitrogen were IG 16 and 77 pounds phosphorus 19 and 62 and potash 10 and 24 pounds corn com yields averaged 92 bushels per acre against 62 bushels on the c common fields in 1942 by 1945 the corn com output reached bushels per acre compared with 71 bushels on the common fields wheat yields averaged 25 bushels and 15 bushels |