The Nevada County picayune., 1916-02-03
AND FIELD CROPS.

David Dickso4 after a lifa of use | ful service 10 ais rcl.owmaa and l life of success as a farmer, had tho 1 following to say about the use of guano: "I say that farmers can make every acre of their lands rich if they will Providence intended the earth should increase in fertility as rapidly as it does in population Every man that assists in removing this dormant guano, lying idle and useless on th" Chincha Islands, and puts it in cir culation. creating herewith food ant clothing. Is a benetactor 10 his kind The country suffers for want of a share of the surplus fertiizing mate rial. Remove the deposit and aprly O crops. and 1t will enrich the land
 T commenced to use guano in 1S46. and gradually increased the use Of if until the present time. never having omitted te use it on my crops eX- cepting the last year Of The war. when could not obtain f. With the proper system of rotation of crops, and rc- turning all the crops to the land, eN cept the lint of the cotton, land may be improved with Peruvian guano alone. but not so fast as when you combine with the soil all the ele- ments of the plants to be grown. Am monia being necessary for all plants l know of no crop that if would not i benefit It will pay the best upon 4I I., ey-cotton being that crop in this scc- ton and tobacco in other sections" !" It will be seen from the above that Mr Dickson prohted greatly by the use of guano He knew well the value of ammonia to growing crops, blr you will observe that he knew quite as well the value of other plant foods to the crop. He got better yields when he applied all the clements of plant food than when he applied ammonia ! alone Also observe that he consid- cred 1t good business 10 apply fcrtit izer He was business man as well as farmer, and knew all the keen points in the business world
 The Hon James NJ Smith. another millionaire farmer of Georgia. Who lowing to say with reference to the use of fertilizers on farm crops:
 The use Of fertilizers has become one of the most important factors in Southern agriculture. l. is power ful agency in producing an increased | J work for. We certainly believe in the use of commercial fertilizers, but we | also believe in the turning under of vegetable matter the sowing of lssumes and the saving of all barn yard manure, The upto-date farmer will rot consider one Of these, but all teur of them. in trying tc increase his farm crops
 Each of these two farmers, who have done much to stimulate farm i'm pavement learned the value of fertil izers. but learned equally well the value Of diversified farming They would not decrease the use of fertil lzer, but diversity more They would have us use more fertilizers, so that wr could STOW more plants and yege table matter i'm turn blow this under and in this way increase the fertility If our lands The most effective farming of today inN olives these two great principles Usc fertilizers and diversity fhe crops Rotate and feed the plants. and you will increase your yields. be more secure from plant dis cases. and bring your farm into a high state of cultivation.
 lf growing crops take plant food out Of the soil and we do not blow under an amount equal to this. or get it from some other source and apply it oul land is sure to decrease in fertility and in value This is fact beyond dispute With most of our crops we take from the fields large amount of nitrogen. phosphoric acid and pot. ash. which never goes back to the place on the farm from whence fl came We should sac to it then, that some kind of plant food takes its place In the case of cotton, we sell the seed and with them large amounts Of nitrogen and other ele- ments of plant food Very often we burn the stalks, and in this way take from the field much more valuabi, plant food lt Is suicidal policy for us to do this under any circum. stances. but especially SO when We fail 10 put back on the soil what We take on
 On sandy farm in one of tho Southern states, which had been aban doned by it's original owner and sold for fifty cents per acre, a little barn yard manure and heavy applications of fertilizer made another farmer rich The last farmer used Sl5 wort of fertilizer per acre and raised 1,40t pounds of seed cotton per acre. Thi was about a bale per acre on the en tire farm The Sl5 investment in fer tilizers and good breaking and culti vation netted the thrifty farmer nor.