The Jasper news., 1905-10-19

u y
morning session Prof. schreitzer
talked On the "Foundation OF the Sol. -
aud Mr.. Crabtreo talked on Corn
breeding.
All plant life, Mr.. Schwei,zor ~.
Pialned, drow its sustenanco from the
soil and the air, and aiter its death ana
decay the part which came from the
air r;turns 10 the air. tbatjwhich came
from the soil returns to the soil. For
instance Suppose you burn plant.
Part OF 1t is consumed but part Of it is
left as ashes, The part which disap.
pears represents the part which was
drawn from the air and it returns
again to the air. The ashes represent
the part that is mineral nd is thr part
comes from the soil. Now il a croI
ike wheat ID grown on piece OF
ground the crop being taken away from
the ground each yelr, il is continual
drawing from the soil The elements
necessary Tor growth aud 40 renewing
OF these clements in the soil. Hence
like a bauk account, ifyou continually
without putting back you soon come 10
the end.
In Mr.. SohweiIzcr's morlins talk he
gave the PHILOSOPHY Of the need Of
fertilEing and in the afternoon gave
some ideas Of how to keep the soil built
up. lie said that great many farmers
use ierlilis"r after the plan that the
doctors used TO write prescriptions 60
years ago. The doctor would diagnose
q cass, but could not decide just what
ths disease was. SO he could write n
rescription with about 40 different
kinds Of medicines, hoping that ~ least
one Of the medicines would act iupOn
the disease. a farmer often uses fer
liliIer not knowing what his land needs
lie pays - big price for fertilizer that
contains certain amount OF phosphate
nitrogen aud potash, when his land
may only need one OF these. His
thought was 10 hnd out just what the
land needs and then procute just that
element which is needed. Its his opin
ion that tho soil around here has pleuty
Of potash And the principle elements
needed 10 keep ihe soil buiIt up is nit
rogen aod phosphate. Tbs various
kinds OF cloVer aud alfalfa supplies the
uitrugsu aud these crops we're highly
recon lmsnded for iertilizing.
Mr. CrSbIroe told tho farmers how
they could Increase their corn crop ai
least - per cent. This can be done by
each carefully selecting the sesd from
his own field. tic showed some corn Of
his owu rNising which hs had developed
duriog the pasI four years on his farm
A. Hanuoa, in she northeast part OF
Blrtou county. According 10 Mr
! Crab Res "a id5Al car VI coru ought to
mrasurs three iou:ths AS much around
as its lcugth. Each farmer ought &c
form iu his mind certain type VI corr
which strikes his fancy aud Iheu pick
nis seed corn 10 AccordAnoe with the
ty pc no Inns iu mind. "IJissurprising'
say IS he, "how the corr will improve
uudvr ibis process"
Ia the Afternoon Mr.. Crabtree talked
on "Poultry raising" He explained
the different characteristics OF tbs dif
ferent varieties of poultry. Ito emPha-
sized the necessity OF keeping the poul-
| try free from mites aud lice aud II
answer to questions about raising tur
keys he gave some pointers on thatsub'
iecI: Among other things no said keeI
the mother turkeys cooped up until th'
little turkeys were large enough to iii
them abov, the grass 80 rs not TO drai
themselves around in the Wet grass
Tho listle cnes should also be fed cure
regularly until they were rs large IS I
quail aud then they could be permitted
to ran around wherever they liked,
hr. Csabtree formerly Published NJ
agricultural paper "a. Denver Colo,
ana at ono time he was vice pres. of th
Colorado Poultry Association. Ho Is
cow living ou a farm 10 the northwos
part Of barton county where ho is hav
ing good success farming after scien
tihc methods.