Show CORN AND NITROGEN by cyril G hopkins university of illinois high oil oin is alread being bred bv a COT ible number ol of illinois corn breede i not so much for feed ing purposes for oid ordinary inary corn Is likely to be already too rich in oil for the best results in the production of beet beef and poil boik bacon but lor for those who desire ire high oil corn and vho aho ale aie pre pared to separate sep irae the oil from the starch and r botein regarding the question one thing is ib of course self belt evident name 1 that higi ghigli protein corn contains more nitika I 1 i than low protein corn but let us bar in ili mind that the main stock of niti nitrogen ogen in the soil Is not tit in a soluble oi 01 ri nai ai laule lable form it is chief ly locked up in the hum is or organic matter ol of the soil during the season a small ot of this organic ul ill trogen is ib i so lile ble li bi the process ol of i tiffi cation ind thus be comes abail nai lill kide as plant food ow ove it is icel possible ble that the corn blaut has ali tiling to do with this bicic s of it is iq knon th hi it nitrification is about b the fie action of certain inc teria 1 1 I l 4 emst imst three distinct slycles si chies ot bicket a have pait in this thi process Ss fust the bi eteria much der decompose the organic matter concertino concerting conc erting tit tin ili troea into I 1 form of am cation second the bat cria which c comeil 0 uneit the ammon n a into tit ni hillid the ohp bacsena which c con on vert ni into altra rs ns tin ill final form in vl ill h n I 1 is s bi flints afeei niti cation has occurred that is alte organic rk bogen ot of the icell has been oner ted into nitrates then the question stion is shall it bo ab oiled and assimilated bv gio grow ing planta or shall more or less or of it bo lot ILI da dannage inage natem aters the soil has nu no gocr to retain nitrogen after it has passed nto into tho form orni ot of nitrates it must be 1 sed by plants of 01 lot lost in the alist drainage water As i I 1 matter of fact larg quantities of nitrogen are acing qt it in from most t f elds it has been found that the daili daib discharge irom from somi 11 0 the large 1 nors lors ot of the carrieo cabrie iio i io to th ocean more than arec bundred thousand pounds pouted of nitrate nitrogen alch Is kh for thre hundred thousand of 0 shelled corn rem abet that this is losie less than the dally dall di evaige fol foi bucl uch a k elvei as the nile at 01 the mib sis sippi one thing bd mt iuna avi t vicent lent namely thit high protin protein coin aill IU not exhaust the nitrogen from the soil more rapidly than low protein corn because of the simple fact that fl fi calSon cation Is independent oi of the coin tolfa process goes on in the soil boll t ven even though no crop of torn corn he be grown ind and v heri ovEr the rainfall ex x ceede the evaporation the soluble ni III frogren which has not tik twin en used it sed by tho the crop will ix bc lot loft lo t in drainage waters rs 11 II high protein corn corm will wll sa Bao ei and kutlu c nitrogen a that mat would other A nim ie be lost Is 13 an added reason for growing it |