The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-01
FARMERANDHANTER.
SOIL AND SOIL TREATMENT.
bnd management Mainly Resp0nsI-
BILE For the Deterioration
of Farm Lands.

N'i anu wisely maze. Inc SOIL Is
perfectly adapted to growing vegeta-
ton. 1t neither grows weary or worm
0Ut in this work. Plants were ere
ated to grow in the soil. So perfect
their adaptation to this business
hat instead of eXhausting the soil,
hey leave it better by growing in it.
The larger growth upon any given
prea this year, the larger still is the
POSSIBLE growth next year. Such is
9he mutual relationship between the
,lowers of the soil and the work of
DE plants in growing, dying and de-
living that it is possible to grow
hops continuously upon the same
IN with ever increasing capacity for
p, wing more and larger crops on
I'll part of the soil.
is the result of bad management,
not of the demands made upon
.,olsoil by the growing crops. Nege-
E .hn upon an average is rs per cent.
1fr. % per cent. air, and only three
- cent. soil.
r I'D farming returns to the soil
t -llf1 OI tlIS OISdiiLNh "o'N' "'
~ Nat it more than c~ompensatcs
~. .l.e three per cent. taken from
The s@il.
cs it is a mistake to say that
u is exhausted or made poorer
small part it furnished the
" Then you ask: Why do we find
ais apd farms, after years of cul-
lion become poor, or non-pro-
Ave? The causes are many
" bad management in blowing
The soil is wet and in blowing
~, allow that the soluable plant
food r ASH az"
~ rain-water.
Cons ~ r,tt.,
burniilH ~. son5;.;o,
~ power of any soil to produc'
depends 80! ri HI oomnac
il not turn loose their ele
''iN f the plant food in sufficien
~ les TO make large crops.
good sot
soil. ,.u,. undo
Shallow, - Tho
permit r~oot-growth. Th
totlets can not pierce thi
,enuei lin search for food.
hard-pan -. a. - rurrisb s,e
->E"i"' Pr for the rapid and flu
'iants require very lare
sf'"." water to keep up health
'F'pi About three hundre
J"i'i'a We ter must pass throug
81 po ,S 20 leave one pound
III ih'H' -. This would require abo'
oFS i,s.d poundsto pass throus
wv" < 10 make one pound
" ne Ii to pass throue
cotton stalk
lint. aud d.on n,
.ot made into mud
P'' lust also contain rottil
ho' hitter to furnish t
: ut which plants al n
: humus, without
grow. ~ua;.io, will be rio
large crops. 1t III;
g. IL Will IhRN"NN - 90. oray SON
: tiers not if it So
or clay. .a hos hoor -,
~ fal condition that b
~ III " I'm produce large crol
II 49, naa tssity of using co
'. III ers. These conta
Is "a and potash, rea
Ph"sP Rilable.l They gre
soi"""'0 held because of Il
a. fact. u.;nh r1on+ r
n They feed the a - -
more vigorous til r H.
y .n . +hAivihg pig or be
III IRA io'u en the helpfuln'
50 :, do1pendent upon
81 oi i.i'i, of the soil.
I'll 'hev ktant study sho'
- me 49,, prove the mech
~ zeal condition of my 49, az -,
81 intelligence in ansYsnaIr bic succ
- ton will depend laleN'
81 as a farmer. 10 r;ober ~
Your bottom land, :.
"a your upland because ,. rdor
sSA condition is better. -
~ richer than your far, 4mu
- mechaiic"i e. discoveries,
a. iheso ling upon til
Tint they need to be 49, t,ro =
81 Where nv .,eir soil is d
anu f.,ve Any
anu INV per treatm'
may be made so by proItbinn Of v
Sc Your soil is largely a
own makins u fa;,, ire of Y
Inc ra,I will dep
largely upon the condit ant So,
SOIL when you begin to p
&c cru CuItiyatOr.