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

at that time about "A cents per pound
IN the commercial fertilizer sack.
When found this out ! said to my
self, The Lord IS unjust to have ali
this plant food under my feet and over
my head. and have It locked nm <,
that cannot get II, nor Tho niants
that | am trying to grow gnt tho
longer ! thought about it. Tho NOR.
came to the conclusion that the Lord
does not make many MISTAKES ana +
would sooner have the Lord mansge
the weather In my community than
any neighbcr I have; for If Tho t.ord
aid not lock up this plant food wbat
would we do We would use nm evsr,.
bit of IT, haul down the very skies and
use 1t, aud siarvo the poor fellow 70
death who is coming after us Rut
the Lord says. You shall moi do a.,
SO he locks 1t up, and neither YOU. I.
nor any other man can get 1t, and use
~ any other way than natures way,
ana the way ! am going to describe.
Ages ago. this earth was solid rock
Ihe rock began 10 dislntegrate ana
the soil began TO form. Vepeta,ior
began to grow, aud that was the start
ing place In making soil fertile and
the more vegetation section of tho
earth produced, the richer tbaf nor
ton became: hence the prairie was
richer than the Forests of thc rns.
because the surface of tho earth oot
more vegetation from the grasses than
where the forests stood.
The Lord made All tho acres of
me land fertile from the Atlantic tn
'he Pacific. and gave it to man TO live
upon 9" prosper. and be happy. In
doihg so, he never hauled wagon.
load rt manure or n load of lime nor
bought a ton OF fertilizer and hove
aid he do IL? He did ii with vepotablo
matters ana thought that If the Lord
could do It, | could do it, This sounds
niue conceity, but mean H.
- have no use Tor n man WIN sit.
around whiting aioro box. waiting
Tor the Lord to turn something up for
MN; and the man who crops his land
iRnorantly until he get it so he ca1not
raise anything on IL. and cxpccts l.,
sit on his front porch and have IN,
Almighty give him two hundred hush
els of potatoes 10 lhc acre. Nnl sit
there long time. If you do NOT he
licve 1t. try him oncr
''lf the Lord could do II with vcp,.
table matter. I coal do IL. lSne,y lie
created plants that have the mower :,
rull tn, nitrogen our or the air AMI
put II in little sacks ON their rcots
and other plants that have the power
to pump up the potash and phosphorlc
acid from the subsoil
Epi,,,.n., fu..
'The first pant used was the Grim
son clover. aud. WHOM / began Ia ua,.
II, they an said It would not grow In
PENNSYLVANIA On the foot-hills of the
Allegheny mouptalns bu; that II was
pa plantlfor the Soiilh. But / Sent 10
Michigan and NewtYork state.an sot
bulletins on the crimson clover. ana
found that they were not only raising
me plant, but prOdnrng tho seed: go.
y stead of going South fer the seed.
! sent TO Michigan Tor It, ] wouiI sow
u IN my corn iieldiin front of tho chi.
Iivator the laot tine / worked the
ccrn, hnd would lS'ratch other field.
with the sprng-hoth harrow IN tho
spring.. when we hld heat and mos.
ttre. ahd SOW It there. 'The growth
4 l.
corn field | would plow down the next
May or June just before the vitality
left the stock To mature the seed in
the head when the sap began to get
sticky. so would not sour the ground.
and put that field 10 wheat In the falI.
Then ] would take another field that
was covered with 91rrol and goldenrod.
plow II ana cultivate Il; for / believed
then as do now, that cultivation re.
leased and made available some Of
that great store of plant food that was
locked up. ! would put that field T.
cats with commercial fertilizer i'm the
drlll Dill not get much vegetable MAJ g.
ter at first.
This was my rotation until I got
my farm covered with grass and [
did not want to take grass field for
oats, but wanted my cornstalks for
cats. When | Vantcd my cCrnstalk
field for oats aud had 10 plow the
neld in the fall or early spring. the
crimson clover plat did not seem to
be what wanted, as Il did not pro-
luce "a mUpS tons of vegetable matter
To the acre as seemed 10 crave.
"rhe next spring I sent to Clear
field county, Pa, bought some buck
wheat, and got some purple-top strap
leaf turnlp seed and crimson clover
seed When ! worked my corn the
last time that season, / sowed In frolt
of the cultivator The first strip in the
field with the buckwheat, the next
strip with purple-top ,strap-leaf turu.p
and crimson clover mixed, and the rest
Of the field with Crimson clover.
THE buckWhcat did not seem to
make much vegetable matter. and "a
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