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Show i , Second Class Land i Can Be Built Up Two Steps Suggested To Increase Yield Second class land can be quickly built up through good soil management man-agement to give yields as good as ' first class land, according to farm management experts. For an expenditure of $50 to $75 in fertilizers and other soil building build-ing measures, second lass soils can be made to produce 100 bushels bush-els of corn per acre yields equal to those grown on the best black prairie oils of the Corn Belt. The farm management men point "out that second grade farm land must have the framework ef a good soli. It must have a capacity for holding plant nutrients and water, so growing crops . can be properly nourished. Dr. Frank Miller, University of Missouri agriculturai economist. BEFORE -fy " AFTER Dr. Frank Miller says second class land can be made to produce pro-duce to yields equal to those grown on the best black praUie soils of the west. reports that If yield boosting management man-agement methods were followed and low output soils were built up to high crop producing levels, 40 million more people could be fed from farm land already in cultivation. cul-tivation. Dr. Miller suggested these steps for getting bigger yields per acre from existing farm land: 1 Encourage En-courage farmers to use methods that increase production; give them facts and figures about costs and returns; 2 Liberalize bank lending procedures so that farmers farm-ers on low producing land with a high output potential can get the financing to invest in fertilizers, drainage and other1 practices that build up tilth and take care of surplus water. |