The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-31
THOUSANDS HEAR
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table matter and huimus out OF the
soil, the water-holding power Is gone
Put a forest over western Pennsyl-
yania and enstern Ohio, and the vege-
table matter and humus back in tie
soil, and you cannot nave a flood al
pittsburg, nor will you have low
wnter.
when / was at Ciarinda, Iowa.
driving out through the country, no.
ticed, on one side OF the road, that the
corn was much greener color than
that on the other side. one field had
been cropped In corn much oftcuer
than the other, thus drawing on the
store ana taking out the nitrogen Of
the soil, until the corn was getting 20
be OF yellow color. In many places
through Missouri. Nebraska. Iowa and
Illinois. noticed that the high places
or ridges, through the fielsd, were be-
ginning to produce yellow-lookl1g
corn, while, at the base OF this hill ar
ridge, the corn was Of darg green
color. The season of 1907 was ont
OF the wettest in many years. ] cross.
ed and re-crossed the Missouri
Mississippi rivers many tit
tending chautauquas. from June Is to
September 10. and believe that as
much decayed vegetable matter, hui
mus and plant food went down those
two rivers as the farmers I'm those Sec
tons used In raising their crops that
year This was not so before the
prairie was broken. The more the
vegetable matter and humus is lost
from the soil. the more the water runq
on; and, the more the water runs OF.
the more and the faster the vegetable
matter and humus. In other words.
the poored the soil gets, the faster II
goes; hence, the high places I'm the
heids show yellow-loolSing corn first
Easier to Take Care of IL.
Listen to me. 1t is much easier 10
take care of II when YOU have It than
to put It back after It is gone.
Il was agreeaby surprised to find
the farmers OF the middle United
states as much interested I'm the soil
as anywhere | had been.
Mature has her way of doing things
and they cannot be changed; and how
can we expect to have nature help us
when we are determined to be agains
her all the time?
when raising early potatoes for tn,
early market when tops are green
we had to haul the tops off the patch
hauled them on a poor knob i'm q
grass field that was going to corn tn,
next spring. These tops lying ther,
the balance OF the summer, as a blan
ket holding the moisture when we hat
the heat. released enough of that plan
food that l talked about being lock
ed up; so, when we were hislSing tn,
corn In the fall. / stopped the mel
and called their attention to the lengtl
Of the ears. the minute we struck tn,
place where the tops had been put.
I'm Pennsylvania in the last eigh
years men in my audience have pu
all kinds OF arguments and question
4 against me on this subject At Bey
ers, Chester county winter Of 1904 an,
- 1895. I4stepped out on platform L
j talk on the soil. Before / got started
a man asked me aiuestion. and tn
audience kept firing uestlons at m
for7one hour and uarter: then | sa
down, without saying one word o
my lecture.
1At tSelinsgrove, Snyder county,
had twenty-five or thirty men on M
back at one time, and the chairman
of the meeting offered any man dol
lar who would corner me. ! say thi
to show that / have fought out ever!
inch Of the ground on the platform
and in the agricultural papers The
even went so far as to write to tn