The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-09-12
Farmers throw OFT Ibis Yoke; Stop Wasting Your Herage
Should Buy Pound YF Thahe
and ofa Bond@


Now that the time is approaching for sowing
grain crops my mail Is crowded with letters
from farmers. all asking What kind OF fertilizer
and how much per acre shall | use7" hardly one
Of them saying anything about the previous treat
ment of the land or whether they are practicinE
any sort OF proper rotation of crops for the i'm
provement Of the land Blu, they seem to have
a notion that the only thing necessary for any
crop IS fertilizer formula.
Stop Buying sand and Gambling
This we'll illustrates the helpless dependence OF
the Southern farmers the fertilizer man. and
at times IL Is almost enough TO dishearten one
who has labored long In tho effort 10 induce
the farmers of the South TO farm instead OF gam
bic the chances with commercial fertilizer
And the years go by they buy more and more
fertilizer. IS shown By the increasing revenue
Of the State Departments Of Agriculture.
And most OF them buy tho S.: fertilizer
because II r. lower in price than a better article
And fully one-fourth Of every ton OF The
2-S2 goods L. simple plain sand or worse. IL
would be interesting TO know how many thou
sands of tons OF this sand the farmers OF tho
South have frcighted and put on their land.
An Occasional Clean OF Light
Yet how am or any one TO advise correctly
in regard TO piece OF land that the owner in
tends 10 put In wheat. and ~ho simply tells us
that II In red land. sandy land. or dark grey
soil. and gives no idea as TO ita conditions az To
fertility. nor of its previous treatment.
We have simply TO guess and In that gen
orally right. that the land Is poor. Occasionally
hear from ~ho says that he has peas on the
land. and wants 10 follow these ~ith wheat Here
In a more simple thing Tho peas have gotten
some nitrogen for him. all probably that the
wheat will need and IL is evident tina; tho farmer
intends TO save the peas for hay. he ahould.
and that the phosphorc acid and. ~ necessary.
the potash the peas have taken from The soil
should be replaced TO enable the wheat to make
grain
Farm Right and Get Your Nitrogen Free.
But. unfortunately. most OF my inga!rrra are
evidently no, farming. but merely planting crops
and hoping that by some good luck taoy can get
a paying crop through the Of some specific
mixture for wheat IL seldom seems To occur TO
many Of these that they could save the purchase
the greater part Of tho Fertilizers they use II
they farmed right hare been insisting for the
pas, thirty more years that tho farmer whose
interests are in grain cotton. needs n~vr to
buy any nitrogen In any form either a. ammonia
or a nitrate. IL hs farms right and the men ~ho
have acted this idea to-day among the
most successful farmers in tho country This In
especially true ~ith tho cotton grower. whose
crop takes such large amounts of nitrogen from
the soil in the seed.
How You I,ob Yourself for EUROPE and the
North.
And yet, Germany alone buys three or four
million dollars worth Of cottonseed meal from
this country every year. all ~rung from the soil
of the south while the farmers try TO replace 1T
with Il pititni four pounds Of ammonia In zoo
pounds per acre OF s~s-2 fertilizer. while Ger
many alone bought last year is.s2s.sso pounds
Of actual nitrogen In cottonseed meal from the