Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-12-26

cent of matter that burned or; tnen
magnesia, iron, chlorln, potash: soua
and lime, The professor Thought the
soil rich except In lime. This l Knew
by previous examination. was undet.
meath and would come up. l selected
six acres of the worst-cropptng piece
on the whole quarter, plowed IL III
Nav. narrowed fine, and drilled IN one
bushel of the best fax seed could get
to the acre. The yield was ia push.
els of clean seed fax. My friends SAID
"you will spoil your land" then ma
nured six acres alongside Of the max
niece. plowed the whole lot In the 1aA
and seeded with wheat In the spring.
The crop on this twelve acres soon
looked better than other parts OF tne
field, and at threshing gave thirty
bushels of wheat to the acre. the pal
ance of the field little less than
twenty bushels. Since then the quar-.
ter has given three crops Of flax, ana
the parts In wheat and oats the past
season gave crops equal to any IN the
vicinity that had never raised crop
Of flax. Since making this change,
with one-third Mt least of the crop
flax. there has been crop Of every
kind of grain sOwn. that has gwen
some profit, in spite Of the low prices:
And those who Mt first said the land
would become useless are now I'M
proving it and their fortunes In this
way.
I know hut little of the richness I'M
derneath the surface here. but to YER
ify test made, sent a sample OF the
subsoil jtaken four feet beneath the
s,lrface) to Prof. Snider, U. of NJ. TX
pertinent station. He reports: Lime,
29.16 per cent: magnesia. 1863 per
cent; iron and alumnia, 2S7 per cent;
phosphoric acid, GA per cent. The
balance water and sand. Is. I. O. Ed
the silica being fine enough to ascend
the plant stem without further chem1-
cal reduction. Knowing the analysis
would with the exception of per cent
of phosphoric acidT come near to that
of the commercial fertilizers in use
and selling for 500 to $40 per ton.
asked the professor to give his opin-
ion as to it's use. He advised it's use
as a top-dressing at the rate of 3O
pounds to the acre. One need not
stretch mis- ina gina ton to see why the
flax roots go down into the subsoi] and
bring up lime and potash enough to
give better crop than the preceding,
and will continue to do so while the
supply lasts. And. in parts. have ex-
amineG, even in Fargo streets, thou
sand years could not exhaust the sup
ply. In the past two years I have
used some of this mari on different
crops, in small patches, and from fe-
suits. intend to use it as fertilizer
when it is not near enough to the sur
face to come up by natural processes.
Others I can name have taken part
in the experiments. and to verify the
foregoing I enclose a bar Of mari, the
same as analyZed. for your own and
friends experiment, during the win
ter.
DR.. @. r. Andrews filled two flower
pots with ordinary top black soil
planted about the same number OF
oats in each. Pot. No. 1 was watered
with clean water: No. in water In
which two teaspoon .uls Of mari was
dissolved land kept for use.) The
grain came up and for the first week
looked much the same. Then No.
commenced to get ahead, and in six
weeks showed over so per cent ad
vance. This was last winter, and car
be repeated in any window. My OWL
experiment with wheat was the same
I used it on a garden crop. also, and
shall continue to do so. While this
material is better in some sections
and in some sections is overlaid by 8
} laver Of clay with little plant food
: this is the wealth we have to draw or
and compete in the worlds market
WORKOUT lands are impossible wifi
such resource underneath or near by
John Goss.