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Show Your Corn Yield Can Be Increased Add More Fertilizer For Valuable Crop A Cornell University food scientist sci-entist has come up with a formula farmers may use to Increase their corn yields by about one-fourth. Dr. Herrel DeGraff's formula, a very simple one: use of an additional addi-tional ISO pounds of fertilizer per acre. Basing his estimate upon a thorough thor-ough study of the nation's 1950 corn crop, a record yield, Dr. DeGrafI approached the problem in a practical prac-tical manner. Pointing out that the corn yield for 1950 was 3,057,-803,000 3,057,-803,000 bushels, he says that the use of additional fertilizer would have Increased the corn output by 764,450,000 bushels. A similar Increase In-crease might have been realized last year, when the corn pDe totaled 2,676,000,000 bushels. The extra corn yield, he declares, would have been worth three times the cost of the fertilizer. Dr. DeGraff's study indicated Simple formula for Increased yield: Put In more fertilizer, harvest har-vest more corn per acre. Too many farmers are "skimpy" In use of fertilizers, farm experts say. that many crops do not get as much fertilizer as they need to produce maximum yields per acre. In nearly all cases, applications applica-tions of plant food are smaller than the amounts recommended by the state agricultural colleges, he said. As of January 1, 1954, stocks of corn were distributed as follows: On farms, 2,138 million Dusneis; In government bins, (CCC), 394 million bushels; in terminal elevators, eleva-tors, 43 million bushels; and in other elevators, warehouses and mills, 100 million bushels. It is worthy of note that in the past five years we have used more feed grains than we have produced. |