Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-09-12
PHOSPHORUS is THE KEY
Sent. a. 1913.

PHOSPHORUS TOT CDe improving
of lands, and have been reading
a large stock of literature on
this question.
If you will buy raw. fienly
ground rock PHOSPHORUS carry
ing IL 1-2 per cent PHOSPHORUS
or a little over % per cent phos-
phoric acid, and if your land is
fairly good, so that per cent
the poshporous which is avail
able each year, together with
the 25 per cent available phos-
phorous in the ground rock, you
could make a maximum crop by |
putting 300 lbs. of this ground
rock on your land at seeding
time, but if you contemplate |
putting this land down to alfalfa,
or even want to grow clover and
other grasses without putting
down an additional amount of
fertilizer, it would be good
practice to put down 1000 pounds
per acre the first application.
Best applied on some manner of
sod, and turned under.
| am able to sell you this class
of rock PHOSPHORUS at $7.85 per
ton delivered at your station, in
bulk, or it can be put in at So. S5
in 200 ID. jute bags. 1t will, take
about % 1-2 tons for a carload.
To get this equivalent in acid
phosphate would cost you at
least $50, and then there would
be two tons to haul, and in Il
complete fertilizer, the same
amount of PHOSPHORUS would
cost you about ten times as
much as the rock. 1t takes %
pounds PHOSPHORUS from the
soil to make 100 bushels of corn
per acre, and 16 pounds to make
so bushels of wheat. What you
want to do to make a profit on
the farm is to use a little more
PHOSPHORUS than what good
crops will take up, so that your
land will not be depleted but will
gradually be getting better all
the time, and you can make
about 500 per cent on any money
you put into PHOSPHORUS, if you
farm on this basis.
If you do not put on sufficient
PHOSPHORUS and use complete
fertilizer, you stimulate your
land but makeit grow gradually
poorer all the time and you can
not materially improve it by
even feeding stock on it, because
it makes about one-fourth of the
PHOSPHORUS in all feed to main
tain and produce the bone and
flesh of the animal, so by stock
raising it takes just so long to
wear out your land.
Now it goes without saying
that you must have some decay
ed vegetable matter in your soil,
in oreder to make this phosphor-
Gus fully available, as well as
potash in soil and while it is like
pulling out eye teeth to turn the
clover, yet it pays to arrange to
grow clover for this very pur-
pose. This is one of the proper
ways to harvest clover. The
clover draws up its part of pot
ash from the soil and turned
back to the land, it makes this
potash in the clover and soil
available to make the next in
creased crop of either corn, pota-
toes, wheat or alfalfa. There is
about 1000 years supply of potash
in your soil, and there is only a
supply of PHOSPHORUS for about
so crops of corn, and as think
the PHOSPHORUS will advance,
the quicker you get the required
amount of PHOSPHORUS in your
land, the better it will be for
you and your posterity. You
should have sufficient phosphor-
GUS in soil for 100 full crops, so
that / per cent of which is avail
able each year would produce a
maximum crop of 100 bushels.
l presume you have gone all
over these established facts and
principles before, and that you
only need to be refreshed to see
what it is going to do. The Glow
er you turn under will, if it has
been inoculted, produce the re-
|quired amount of nitrogen and
you can make your land produce
| this clover by putting on ground
| limestone, in addition to the fine
ly ground phosphate, which
material | hope to be able to off
er you at a reasonable price.
Tusting that you will consider
buying a caload of each of these
materials from me at price quot
ed. This is the only kind of
fertilizer you need and more
especially when you have aleady
a fine supply of humus, and gem
eraly an abundance of moisture,
| remain, Yours truly,
w TT COREh nj