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TIOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
P rob lem o f Soil A n a ly se s
Plai.t Pood Useless in a Soil so Hard and Dry That the Roots
Cannot Get IL
READ EVERY WORD!!
By C. I". HODGE, Professor of Social Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene.
T IS LITTLE WONDER land values it w ill.” But this is a foolishly slow,
Mr. Rancher!
slump in a seetion where you can laborious and expensive method of find­
put four cement posts and two men ing ont. What might take a fanner
Mr. Merchant!
on a spike-tooth harrow and then simply from one to ten years to learn uncer­
“ mark” (not scratch) the surface of tainly and imperfectly may be deter­
the iron like soil, and where ‘‘ farmers’ mined scientifically by a few hours’
Mr. Cattle Man!
burn their straw and have not spread work in a modern laboratory.
a load of barnyard manure (apparent
Thus we see that for agricultural pur­
Mr. Hop Grower!
ly) since the valley was settled.
poses some land may he dear as a gift.
It makes little difference, practical Agricultural nitrogen is worth 15 cents
Mr. Fruit Grower!
ly, how much plant food a toil co
a pound, potassinm 6 cents, phosphorus
tains, if it is so hard and dry that the 3 cents and ground limestone about 5-10
roots cannot get it, hence the word on of a cent, besides cost of hauling and
the physical condition of soils at the spreading. With, these prices in mind
Do you protect the amount of Dollars on your Bank
close of this letter. This physical con we may compare two samples of land
Checks against the CHECK RAISER?
dition we can generally control by wise
as follows:
handling. The necessary chemical ele
Pounds in 2 million (i. e. per acre,
Do you know that American Bank records show losses
ments, if lacking in a soil, we must buy about 6 2 3 inches deep).
through bad check men of $500,000 in 1900, $5,000,000 1906,
and spread.
Plant food—Manitoba.
Value.
Fifteen chemical elements enter into Phosphorus . ______ 2,530
$1 a,000,000 in 1911 and the awful total of $23,000,000 in 19131
$ 75.90
or make up the plant body. These may Potassium
______ 17,100
1,026.00
be studied in the per eent composition Nitrogen __________ 20,900
' w'^
called on to stand this enormous yearly
3,015.00
of corn:
loss* The F anner! Yes, because most city business men now
Calcium . - _____ 27,000
135.00
Elements obtained in abundance from
use Check Protection. WHY do you, a t a yearly expense,
air and water—Oxygen, 46.000%; car
...$4,251.90
protect your farm buildings, crops and stock against loss by
Total values ____
bon, 45.000%; hydrogen, 6.000%.
Value.
Bavarian Barrens.
fire, storm and disease, YET! neglect to protect the total
Elements that the corn plant must Phosphorus, trace _
...$
0.00
cash receipts of all your hard work, your Bank account.
get from the soil and which we must Potassium, tr a c e ___
0.00
R IG H T N O W ! Buy this $10.00 New E ra Maehine, it will
buy, if deficient—Nitrogen, 1.760%; Nitrogen, tr u c e ____
0.O0
stam
p in Red Indelible Ink the exact amount of your check
phosphorus, .300%; potassium, .340%. Calcium, 1 3 6 0 --------
6.90
in Dollars, show it to your Banker, use it 30 days, then if
Elements seldom lacking in the soil
not satisfied your money will be returned without question.
6.90
in the small amounts required, except
Total values
calcium (Lme), in regions free from
Of eourse above the minimal limit at
Fign and Mail This Order.
limestoue. It is also added to “ sweet­ which the plants can get all they need
e n ” or correct acidity of soils-—Mag additional supplies of plant foods may
ncsium, .125%; calcium, .022%; iron, not be of immediate value, but the
COMMERCE-UTILITY CORPORATION,
.006%; Sulphur, .004%; Silicon, .014%; above figures iudieate a reason for the
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Sodium, .013%; Chlorine, .013%.
rush of agricultural emigration into the
Portland, Oregon.
Necessary Elements in Soil
Northwest. And yet, with all the ex
A plant cannot make something ont perience of the past with exhausted and
Ship me one Robert IT. Ingersoll New Era guaranteed Check Pro­
tector C. O. D. $10.00 by Parcels Post, prepaid.
of nothing any more than a man can, abandoned lands, the peoplv on these
and while most of the above elements rieh soils are still talking of “ inex­
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exist in air, water and soil in super­ haustible fertility,” burning their straw
abundance fcr the plant’s needs, the and manure, or hauling the latter ente
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three elements, nitrogen, phosphorus he ice to befool their streams. A com
and potassium, practically limit and de­ liarison ef virgin soil in the Canadian
termine soil fertility. Nitrogen, most Northwest with soil adjoining it that
vital of all, does not exist as a miueral had been cultivated (“ mined” ) for 22
in soil, but must be added from decay years showed a loss of 2,200 pounds of
of plant mil animal bodies. Of the nitrogen, $330.00 worth per acre.
other two, phosphorus is likely to be
This leads us to study losses of plant
the limiting element in a soil, but po­ foods in the soil due to cropping. Too
tassium compounds, as well as those of few have counted the cost of a crop to
caleium, me so readily soluable that Mother Earth or thoi ght of making
they are likely to be cached away, as any return.
is the case with peaty loain soils. No
None of the above data are new, but
Since “ TIMES ARE HARD,” now is the time for you to
realize a profit on your old bundle of freight bills that you have
matter what the abundance ef the farmers are not learning these faets and
perhaps regarded as nothing more than waste paper.
others, lack of any essentia) element not taking them into account as they
Do yon know that the freight and express charges that you
limits plant growth; it is like a store­ should. Nothing would, perhaps, bene­
pay aru many times ia error, due to oversight on the part of tbo
house full of food with the key lost. fit our farmers and our country more
clerk in assessing proper charges, or to errors in classification,
So a black peat soil is loaded with than the careful study of the problems
weights, etc., and that which you pay to the transportation com
nitrogen and may contain a good suggested above. If in each grange, or
panies in excess of what actually belongs to them for their servieee
amount of phosphorus but be so poor rural neighborhood, the people would
nnder their legally published tariff rates amounts to considerable
in potassium that corn planted in it get together and each family buy a
money that you might count as profit? in the conduct of your
will make only so much growth as the good modern book and then study the
business! It is a faet that unless business concerns, however
potassium contained in the kernel will problems, meet to discuss and compare
small, employ expert rate and traffie men to look after their tranB
permit—perhaps three or four stunted notes, we eould increase soil fertility
portation affair» they lose annually a large amunnt of money that
could be saved. OUR BUSINESS IS TO SAVE THIS MONEY
leaves. Add a few pounds of potassium and often double erops at the same
FOR YOU FROM YOUR OLD FREIGHT BILLS.
to the acre—a 100 bushel crop actual­ time. Most of the. data above was taken
We ean greatly benefit you and your business as a member of
ly takes 73 pounds of potassium out of from Soil Fertility and Permanent Agri
thie association, our staff of traffic experts are the best that
an acre—and we get vigorous growth culture by Professor Hopkins of the
money ean produce, and we are saving merchants thronghout the
Illinois Agricultural Experiment Sta
and a large crop.
country thousands of dollars yearly in overcharges found on ex­
Similarly the case of lime as limit- tiou.
pense bills whieh were erroneously charged by the railroads and
ling element is shown by the following
Of course the problem is not so simple
express companies. A membership in this association entitles you
experiineuts made in Maryland:
as it might seem from this brief state
to these savings, together with such further services as quota­
Produce during eleven years, per moot. As Warren says: “ The fertile
tion of rates, renting of freight to receive lowest rates, collection
acre--Four crops corn, no lime, 98 surface soil may be carried away by
of loss and damage claims. Inter-State Commerce Complaints, and
many other services beneficial to merchants.
bushels, limed (carbonate), 145 bushels; erosion, by wind or water. Probably
three crops wheat, no lime, 32 bushels, more soil fertility is lost ia this way
The eost of membership ia only $10.00 for the first year’s
service; the second year's service does not cost you anything in
limed (carbonate), 43 bushels; four than by cropping.” Boil may be too
cask, as we take $7.50 to eover the second year’s service from
arops hay, no lime, 2.60 tons, limed dry, when any amount of plant foods
the overcharges found in the expense bills only, and we further
(carbonate), 4.29 tons.
are of uo avail; or it may be too wet
guarantee to 'efund to vou nnder our contract more than the
Rich bottom land, season fairly dry, and require drainage, and too free
amount of cash that you originally pay for the membership.
1897—Flat I received 350 pouuds of dis drainage may rapidly leach away
Let ua have your application today.
solved rock per acre, yield 13,597 natrates, potash and lime. Humus and
quarts; plat II received 700 pounds of bacterial eontent of soils indicate mat­
dissolved rock per aero, yield 20,066 ters of great practical importance. It
mav be almost as easy to spread the
quarts.
T H K TRANS C O N T IN B N T A b TRAFFTC ASSOCIATION,
This shows that an addition of *7 straw of a wheat field as it would be
worth of i hosphorus caused an increase to sow the equivalent value of chemical
411 415 Fanams Building, Porlland, Oregon.
fertiliser and the plant fiber in adding
in the crop to the value of $353.55.
Oectlrmen:
The plain farmer's land rnle is, or to the hnmus would greatly increase the
I kereby apply for mcmh'rship io" the aber« saned Association to reeeirv
has been ia the past, “ If the soil won't power to hold water and the ease with
all ot tho benefit« ander your general membervbiy eontraet, and I eneloae kero-
grow crops, go somewhere else where which the soil may be worked.
with check for »10 00 to eoeer m> ml enhip fe«.
I
Mr. Merchant!
Soil Fertility Contained in Different Farm Crops Approximate Maximum
Amounts Removable Per Acre Annually.
Total
Crop—Yield.
Nitrogen rhoephorus. Fctusium. V alue.
Wbpat. grain 50 bushels
13
«11.79
71
12
Wheat, straw. 2 | tons
6.57
. 25
4
45
Wh. it, crop
16
58
IS 36
9»!
Corn, gram, 100 bushels................. ............ 10<l
17
16.65
19
Corn, «talk». 3 tons
........................
.50
0 5
54
10.93
Corn rrop
_ ............. .... 150
23.5
27.58
73
Alfalfa, e t’ht fnna
............................
400
•72.60
36
192
Apple«,
> baabela
.................... .... 47
57
5
10.62
•
47
. . 59
n .w
•
1.26
55
6
14
199
Apple erop .
..........................
ne
23.76
Fat
1000 pounds ..................
S
1
... 1*
1.85
OX
Butter, 499 pounds ............. ....................... . 9.1
«.14
9.1
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