The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-02-05
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College Station, Tex, Feb. S.
The substance known as Nitro-cult-
ure has been very extensively adver-
tised as a means Of inoculating soils
| that are naturally deficient in those
| bacteria which serve to fix the free
nitrogen of the air thus making
| ii available to the plant. The matter
of inoculation has been so widely dis
cussed, and the public interest has
been aroused to such an extent that
the Agricultural Experiment Station
of Texas undertook, during the win
! ter and spring of 1904-5 to inyesti-
gate the quality of some of the sub
seed men very generally under the
trade name Nitro-culture or some
similar designation. These packages
have been sold at a price varying
from $3.50 to $500 for a quantity
stated to be sufficient for one acre
! of land
1t has also been held that it is
necessary to supply each species of
riety of bactorium, the supposition
being that alfalfa, for instance, was
affected solely by its own form of
bactorium while white clover, peas,
and so forth each had it's own kind.
Proceeding on this hypothesis, the
manufacturers and seedmen are ad-
vertising as many as a dozen or more
kinds Of nitro-culture
During the last two or three years
it has been discovered that the as
sumption that each Iegume is affect
ed by a particular species or variety
Of tubercle producing bacteria is un-
warranted. Hopkins of the Illinois
Experiment Station proved in 1904
that the bacteria causing tubercles
On the root of sweet clover would
roots of alfalfa At the Texas Ex-
pertinent Station it has been proven
that the bacteria affecting roots OF
bur-clover win quite as readily pro
duce nodules on the roots of alfalfa
when the latter is grown in the same
soil. This latter observation has also
been made at the North Carolina Sta
tion and elsewhere The Oklahoma
Experiment Station has published a
list comprising other species of le-
guiminous plants in which cross in
oculation occurred. 1t is very proba-
bic that all forms of closely related
regumes viii be shortly shown to be
affected by the same organism.
Some of the substances sold as
quick and easy means of introducing
these forms of bacteria into the de-
sired crop of legume have been in
vestigatcd during the past few
months al several experiment sta
tions, notably at that of Texas. From
an extensive series of pot cultures,
iusine sell which had previously been
/ slerilized. iJ has been found thar
latter applying some of these social
led "yest-pocbct fertilizers" mocula-
itiou occurred so rarely as to warrant
|the statement THAT this mchod of lu-
|trolucieg the desired germs is %. uu
lpucic8l value The plants yNpari-
Imeu5ci upon. glalm ana Iur-eloycr.
were Infected only iu few cases and
IlhHu au. .o 80 slight extent and show
Ied ro obvious tcue1t from rbe intro.
lJu#Iou of fta r.rms This is quito
Iolutuv to tho oytutsa.. claims
'lo ,h,H substances
The problem las aIr5 been ot,a..
, ,J hy o'h,r mgthods 90 Investigation
H.. fhe NeN Work Experiment seHou
and ALSO af fbe Experiment saHoa o,
IOklaboma Tle former reports. a
n result ot the haoerioloE.taI ,Aam
iuaUau ui tho content. 0f several U.
thg packages ot uitfo-,4l,ufr Vui.H
Dad Heeu houebt on the opeu market
fhat tbr Eerms vhish produced .h.
fuher,ies un thr 'o5. 0f HfaIfa $1,000
.n rasf.t aII .ass- coHspiruoHsIf se
.snE on ths oeifan ln tbs psektee.
rtr epeff slse -hevs fhsi fhr ssIH.
.i oast nf produfIus .u,h pa,sss.
lra fhau ten eruf. eEtfss thsg
have heeh solf st s pfice aI g. tu
fs H" cash The Oklahoma Es
/ lgsrim,af sfsuoa hss sho~u iiksv se
Ithaf ia maH, tasss tae tottuu in
tfhs.r EatkaEcs so~s uuf .antala taa
fai.eflf foFmlne eesm at au h..
tH3tet sosnefhinE eimsiat fa r
lH tIs~ af fAe presegt s.afus af ths
laaestau go us sa,tahie Cab earn
lMrmer ehn 4lt contemplating nur
eaasins fhe~e nru4arfs aEunsf auHd
tne fua Hish eaH~ atloHs at profits
to he derived ffnm safh mes hoa8s nl