Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-01
CHOOSING RIGHT FERTILIZER
TO GROW WINTER WHEAT

fertilizers TO be added where no stable
or barnyard manure is produced has
been worked out very satisfactorily
by the Ohio Experiment Station after
hundreds of fertilizer tests. These
tests are applicable to a large part of
the winter wheat region. The Ohio
station describes its experiments as
follows:
Corn, oats, wheat and clover have
been grown in a four-year rotation
these crops being grown on four ten
acre fields, each crop being grown
every season.
In this experiment., manure has
been taken directly from the stable to
the field. This manure, Moreover, has
been reinforced with phosphorus car
ried in acid phosphate or raw phos-
phate rock to make up for the phos-
phorus taken out of their feed, by the
animals producing the manure, in or
der to build up their skeletons, the
phosphate being busted in the stables
at the rate of one pound per 1000
pound animal per day. This phos-
phated manure has been spread on
the clover sod in the fall or early
winter at the rate of about ten tons
per acre, and plowed under for corn,
the plowed land being dressed with
limestone Gone ton per acre.)
the wheat receives a complete ferti-
lizer, made up of about 200 pounds
steamed bone meal, 100 pounds acid
phosphate, and forty pounds muriate
of potash in the fall, followed by
sixty pounds nitrate Of soda in the
spring, or a total of 400 pounds per
acre, having the formula 4-16-5, and
costing about $3.50 per acre for the
materials, or at the rate of $3.50 per
ton.
Allowing IS for handling the man
ure, SO for the phosphate used with
it. SO for the limestone, and $3.50 for
the fertilizer, the total cost of this
treatment has been $3.50 per acre for
each four-year period, or s4.SS an
nually.
The outcome of this treatment has
been an eight-year average of seven
ty-seven bushels of corn per acre, FOL.
lowed by sixty-one bushels OF
oats, thirty-three bushels of wheat
and three and two-third tons of hay,
thus giving an increase above the un-
fortified yield of fifty bushels of
corn, thirty-one bushels of oats and
twenty-one bushels Of wheat, and
more than three times as much hay
as has been harvested from either OF
the hay crops on the untreated land.
In other words, this forty-acre tract
is Welding more than twice as much
corn, wheat and hay as the average
of Ohio, and nearly twice as much
oats. OF course, not all the land In
Ohio is in condition to produce such
Yields Much of it is deficient in
drainage, and there are some areas OF
thin, cold clay that will require not
only drainage, but also such treat
ment as will increase the supply OF
vegetable matter in the soil before
any system of fertilizing can have its
full effect. But the response which
is being given by soils in other parts
of the State to certain parts OF the
treatment above described Is sur
ficient to show that the yield of the
great majority of Ohio farms may be
very materially increased by meas
ures which will be abundantly reim-
bursed in each years crops
1t might be added that rotted straw
may take the place of the manure or
the phosphate may be added directly
TO the clover sod and not in connec-
ton with manure. The rotation OF
corn, oats, wheat and clover can be
made to furnish sufficient humus to
the soil To do this cornstalks gem
orally should not be removed. Only
the seed of the clover crop should
be removed and all straw and other
plant remains should be returned to
and Incorporated with the soil.