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Show Organic Matter Loss I j- -- "IT ;,v vg. jfi: WHAT THIS, FIELD 7'. jgj- NEEDS i MORE SV, ORGANIC MATTER .'M Maybe you don't need a triphammer trip-hammer to work your land. But if you have a hard time plowing the ground .don't blame it on the weather weath-er or your implements. The trouble may be due to loss of organic or-ganic matter from 'the soil. G. P. Walker, Purdue University extension agronomist, says that when soils can't take plowing readily, read-ily, it's a sign they are dangerously-low dangerously-low in organic matter. Walker's advice is more sod crops in the rotation to give the soil an easily worked texture. Sod crops well fed with nitrogen, phosphate phos-phate and potash put life in the soil and build up its organic matter mat-ter supply. They improve structure and tilth. |