Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1911-11-10

so much discussion as to whether fer.
tility is needed to grow crops or not,
the following extract from an address
by Prof. ]. II. Shepherd before the
North Dakota Academy of Science is
interesting:
Is Fertility Necessary
England is credited with producing
fifty million bushels Of yheat per year.
She imports two hundred million bush
els of wheat and takes pains to import
that as wheat instead of as flour for
the sake Of getting the fertility which
is contained in the bran and shorts
portion of the kernel almost exclusive
~. She imports one hundred million
bushels of corn and nearly a billion
pounds of oil cake per year. In adj
ton to this mammoth annual source Of
fertility, she imports large quantities
of phosphorus. These importations Of
grain result in vast quantity of sta
BILE manure in Britain which is lavishly
applied to the fields which are planted
to grain.
DR.. Bernard Dyer, in his American
lectures on the results of investigation
on the Rothamstad soils in discussing
the Boradbalk wheat plat that has pro-
dnced a CROP of wheat each year since
1874, after stating that it had been
given an annual application of l5.;
tons of farm manure each year during
that time, uses the following sentence:
"It is to be borne in mind, however,
that the quantity of manure used in
these continuous wheat CROWN gexper.
iments is on the yearly average far
less than would be used in practical
agriculture on any of the rotation sys
tems.o
This recalls to my mind the state.
ment Of our Scottish herdsmen at tho
Agricultural college, who in CONVEX.
sation with me about the method CT
top dressing pasture and meadow lands
in Scotland, remarked that the Scottish
farmer did not put on stable manure
with pepper box and seemed to have
the idea that the quantity applied here
is very lighe WIN we do make applica-
tion fthat product to our lands. In
addition to. this, England began import
| ing Guano as early as 1855 at the rate
of two hundred thousand tons annually
from South America and the sea is:
lands. The Guanos contain from Up
per cent of nitrogen and per cent of
phosphorus to about per cent nitrogen
and IS per cent phosphorus.
Altman, in discussing manures,
wrote in 1894 of the use of bones for
fertilizers in England. He states that
they first employed bones for fertiii:.
ers in 1774 and that their use has
steadily increased ever sinces. He al
so states that their popularity among
farmers is unrivalled.
Baron Liebeg raised warning pro.
test against their using bone in such
large quantities, saying that England
was robbing all other countries Of their
fertility. England is said to have turn
ed up the battle fields of Leipzig, Wat
erloo and Of The Crimea and to have
carried away from the Catacclnbs Of
Sicily the skeletons Of many genera
tions.. Altman sums up his uncanny
statement in these words: "Annually
she RECEIVERS from the shores of Other
countries to her own the manurai equiv
alent Of three million and half Of
men," England also supplied her sol
with one hundred thousand tons of slae
phosphorus per year before the Close
of the last century and at the present
time credited with using three hupd
, red thousand tons per annuM.
By this process of gathering the
worlds fertility and heaping it up o,
the "tight little island" regularly an
systematically for centuries and Of
shipping nothing out of the countr,
that has fertilizing value, she bear
the strongest evidence Of what fertili
ty, coupled with her heavy rainfall
and humid air, which allows the mini
mum escape Of moisture in the produc
ton Of ton Of dry material in a crop
will do for the crop yields Of a country
, Germany shows much the same con
: dition, though somewhat lighte
e yield than England and while she ha
A ranged less widely in gathering fertil
n ity, she ships out Of her country littl
J. besides sugar, which commodity con
Y tains none Of the elements Of crop fer
0 tility.
y Denmark sells butter as almost he
v exclusive export product, a materia
b which at the commercial rates Of fertil
y izers as they are sold on the market
!. carries off 4Sc worth per ton Will
}. wheat bran on the same basis shows
! value for it's fertilizing ingredients o
0 about 5000 per ton.
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