The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-31

make the conditions all right. and givo
the old American hen the material TO
max" an egg out Of, and she's Just
Eot 10 lay or bust These men have
cen going up and down the land
talking balanced ration for plant
,ill Bob Seeds began II some years
go. 30 man can put balanced "a
ton In commercial fertilizer sack
ike that released by nature. IL all
farmers were not trying tQ balance
mat ration, they would an use the
"a me brand Of fertilizer: ana thou
sands of dollars are wasted every yeac
lh the casioyn United States by ths
farmers rire to balance that ration.
I'm the year 1907. was lecturins
In the state ut Nobraska, and learned
that whore tHrr had used nitrogen.
potash an ] phosphoric avid. separate
iy on wheat. the nitrogen showed BY
FAR the best. Hence while know
| mat any vegetable mutter win helu
She sVil believe that crimson clover
| rcd clover cwect clover and alsii,a
would be better for that soil than
'urnips, rape or rye. because 10 would
gather thc nitrogen from the air. AMI
balance their soil ration quicker. that
that have unbalanced by raising corn.
Nitrogen Natures Blanket.
81 believe :he nitrogen the western
farmer has was given him with ma
iure's blanket, which / have so oftca
| talked about and tho farmer who
watches this blanket and helps nature
Nill have nature help him i'm return.
- can take pure corn meal and Kill
Nttlc pigs Win H. ! can get man
fdtteninC hogs IN such N condition. with
pure corn meal that hcuwllH have 20
Kill them to save their lives.
lD.f"I have taken nitrate of soda and
gone into my oat field and kept every
grain 'out OF the oat head BY unbal-
araing the rationa have gone into
my lots Qf bay with ,nitrate of soda
and the query to me Is. Why does q
| leguminot1 plant not care ror nor use
nitrate &C soda, whom u V hcniirogen-
gathering plant2 f fiu haHrgg
IL was talking along IN @ line OF the
blankc' IN Bucks county Pa.oa, few
Winters ago, when farmer got up
and said he had covered one half a
held of grass with barnyard manure
end the other half with pure oolean
straw. The straw covered part WIS
Just ~ fertile when plowed and crop
I,d as whore he put the barhyard
manure. I said, Hold on. lyou are not
telling al the story and whenlI got
HIM into details he said they had
trrcshed the wheat I'm the field and ne
Edulod the straw from thresher ln
July and covered one-half of the grass
field, and the next winter he covered
the other half of the field with barn
. A q D. ma
The truth was. he covered one half
of his grass field with straw in jury.
| and 1t was blanket holding the mois-
ture when ne had the heat. II ben0-
nted the mechanical conditions Of tho
soil disirtegrated the soil and un-
locked some of that plant food that l
talked about being locked up "a while
sgo, and equalcd the plant food IN
! barnyard. manure put on in winter
time when there was no heat
after ! was through talking In
trawfcfd county. Pa, few years
ego, a man got mp and said he manur-
| ed potato patch i'm corner of the
field he WAS going TO put, corn in.
Something happened SO that he had
a. put another field to corn. ana the
Held with the manured potato patch
was moved that year. The next spring
that field went to corn, aud after he
had gotten his oats in and went TO
Iluw the field In question, for corn IT
began 10 get dry, and he could scarce.
~ get the field plowed; but, In plowins
| the field when he came to the patch
that was manured the year before. the
rlow would 60 right through, because
tnat was more moisture there than IN
the rest of the field.
People sometimes look at me when
say that the Hoods around Pittsburg
and on the ohio river are growing
worse ana mere destructive every de-
cade, because as tho forests of vest
orn Pcnnsylyania and eastern Ohio are
removed the farmers worn the vege-
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