Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-06

90 He is obliged build barns
and sheds whereby the forage Of the
farm shall be stored with the least
possible loss of it's nutritive powers,
and consequently this saves waste
very greatly
60 He is compelled to become a
large producer of Iegumes. like Glow
er. alfalfa, vetch. etc, whereby by
natural means. nitrogen is more large
" restored TO the soil.
AE these are the natural and in
evitable things that belong to his vO-
cation if he is a man big enough TO
comprehend them. But there are some
things he must do of an extra char
acter il he handles his farm so as to
constantly increase its fertility. He
must be a liberal feeder of the land
as well IS his animals He must
comprehend that nothing can be
grown on the farm without an ex-
penditure of nitrogen, phosphorus and
potash. The nitrogen to a large ex-
tent, the lesumes will evolve and de-
post in the soil. But the phos-
phorus and the potash must be pur-
chased. He must know something
about these important elements, and
he must accept it as one of the fixed
expenses of the farm that these ele-
ments, as well as lime, must be
yearly supplies.
Certain forms of dairying, like milk
shipping. cheese making and con-
densing, are wasteful of fertility. un-
less the farmer guards against such
loss, by artificially supplying the lime.
phosphate and potash 1t was large
ly through this taking of the whole
milk from the farm without adequate
making up of the loss. that so many
farms in the eastern states became
depleted of their fertility. Wherever
butter dairying was earned on. and
consequently the skim milk was used
to grow calves and pigs. the live
stock complement of the farm was
kept up and the manure supply
greatly enhanced. Such sections like
Delaware county, New York has suf-
fered much less in the depletion of
the soil in the past fifty years, than
did Herkimer, St. Lawrence. Madison.
Oneida and other of the cheese max
ing counties of that state The same
depicting process has been going on
in New England, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, and farther west The
wonderful growth of villages and
cities calls for an enormous consump-
ton of dairy products This means
taking the whole milk from the farm
in a large degree and thereby greatly
reduces the growing of live stock We
well remember sixty years ago how
that central New York produced great
crops OF clover and a large supply Of
cattle, hogs and sheep. The tops of
the hills were kept covered with the
splendid forests tint characterized
that state. The springs and small
streams We're by that means main
tanned and we fished for trout in
brooks that have not known a trout
for. the past thirty years and which
are dry most of the year All this
has been changed and sadly so for
the worse. Had the farmers kept the
tops of the hills covered with trees
it would have conserved the water
supply and helped maintain the side
hill Dastures.
Fifty years ago Horace Greedy,
through his Tribune. warned the far
mers of New York against the de-
structive effect of stripping the for
ests from the hill tops. Dairying in
all its branches of butter production,
milk shipping, cheese making and
condensing, must, of course, be kept
up for the necessities of the great
army Of consumers who demand it.
But the demand is just as i'm
perative that the dairy farmer know
what he is about and conduct his farm
with an eye single to the preservation
of its fertility. He must know more
of the scientific side of his calling
He must be more willing to use some
of his revenue in the purchase OF
fertilizers to produce against the ma