The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-24
NORTH CAROLINA'S EXTENSIVE,
USE OF FERTILIZER JUSTIFIED
State Buys Vast Quantities of 1t and For The Most Part
Uses 1t To Good Advantage Liebig's Monumental
Discoveries.

North Carolina does.
ana my boastful critics come hack
at me with the undisputed assertion
that II u take a lot Of money to
pay ior IL. Which is the truth North
Carolina will pay this year not less
IMAM ftteen million dollars for fer
tlllZer. | WOuld like to see the State
pay fifty million.
Ihen l show my critics that North |
Carolina pay more for cotton to run
the cotton mills than any other State |
IN the Union unless it may be Massa- |
chusetts, and I would like to see NV |
state pay more for cotton to run its
mills thar all the other States pav.
l would k to see North Carolina
1eed It's cattle more corn and hay than
any other State feeds. I would like
to see North Carolina feed its hogs
more corn than any other State feeds.
Why?
a for every pound Of corn
led a hog you get SO much pork. For
every pound of ~COttonSeed meal fed
q COW you get SO much milk or but
ter. For every pound Of cotton fed
TO the cardlng machine at the mill
you get so much yarn and cloth. For
every ton of fertilizer fed to the farm
you get so much cotton, tobacco, corn,
or what you are after.
Where North Carolina Leads.
There is the story, and there is no
possible way to side-Step it. North
Carolina raises more cotton to the
acre than any other State IN the
Union.
Baron Liebis showed the world
that a farm crop is produced by pro-
viding SO much potash. SO much phos-
phate, so much nitrogen. He showed
that cotton is just like cotton cloth.
To make cotton it is necessary to have
in the ground the things the cotton
is composed of. All soils have q GER
tain amount OF the three essential ele-
mentS, but all soils DO not have these
three things always in sufficient
quantity and in such form that the
plant can get hold of them. It is Just
like wood in the forest. Some for
estS have 10 look elsewhere for I, time
: for more. Where it is not easy to
get Il hold of arrangements must be
made to procure it.
sooner or later the mineraI ingredi-
? ents Of the land are Exhausted. { ar
not aware OF any land on earth ex.
= cept it ma be some exceptional SpO
like the Nile valley o. the Mississippi
so-calied Deltas, which are renewed
= by OvertioWing, that IS not likely t
= become exhausted unless new mate
rial is brought to the soil. It is true
that a certain amount OF potash il
g the soil is steadily becoming available
and the soil is steadily disSoivin,
e more and more of the rocks Whicl
contain the minerals necessary TO
t fertility. But it is not done with SUI
ficient rapidity to offset the remova
e from the farm, OF the fertility tha
goes With every ton Of crop carrie
way.
Some Things Learned.
IT North Carolina has learned tha
e the easiest a to keep the sar--mi
d running is to bring logs to it. Mort
IS Carolina has learned that the pun
y pose OF a saW-nlill is to use log:
II North Carolina has learned that
" saw-rnill that tries to get along wit
as few logs as possible is q freal
IT North Carolina has learned that t
"a get results from a saW-Inlll it needs t
be crowded with logs just as hard 3
it can stand.
h To change the saw-mill for til
1T farm makes it read hat North Care
"a lima Is learning that a farm Is a pfaf
to assemble the fertilizing ingredient
g necessary for the production
Nv plants, and II the factory, which COZ
sists in the chemical laboratory III
der ground and the chemical labor;
"a tory above ground. tt
o. conversion of potash. ~nitgoren, al
phosphate. with carbon and sunligh
or into the desired crop.
,ol North Carolina has earned that
"a l 1s1 IL a 01No eit NA"N S~
at ness OF the factory is to buy as nut
We raw material as the factory can us
and convert that material into Il
rs. things the factory is designed
.es make.
hit The United states has gone ov
t., the virgin land and exhausted Il
ng temporary fertility in most plac<
The real business Of farming IS nc
es. starting, and North Carolina has go
he enough ahead Of the rest Of the stat
is TO be worth studying. 1t is posslt
,en q good thing FOR this State that
-er natuIal fertility is not so great
that OF sonae of the West
he The realization that there are nee
We ed more potash and other feItiiGzi
chemicals has induced men TO %
'un large factories to supply sucii thini
and when the other States come
understand that they must i"ii'
ant North Carolina to get satisfactory
suits this State will be stu 12rC'