The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-03-17
. 2. INTELLlcENT USE or FERTILIZERS IN GERMANY.
The Second of a seriea Of Six ArticIes

All state Institutions have fostered the fertilizer trade since its origin
part in the building up of the trade and in later year tn states have taken
it for granted that the trade is profitable to farmers and merchants alike.
every state where fertilizer is sold in appreciable quantities laws have been
grades. etc. Besides the trade, overambtious, might forget its obligation to
n consumer Ws m and easr r TO, sale Inf inferior 10 ma ass under str, the nams 10 of fer fss
states themselves are largely responsible for the rise and volume of the
1t has long been recognized that Germany leads the world in many
early years. Germany discovered that mineral sats applied to growing
lying aus an has suggested to. the other parts of the world many valu-
ane lessons o. ner findings. Won Lebg. through his studies n lee
in the early history of the use of commercial fertilizers. Ltebig that
in the year 145 and 1916, and found that on a hectare (2A acres) he gath
did not Sc the saiammoniac. He secured this result by using about 200
In commenting upon this Won nsns has the following to say: IT is
quite certain TAIN that h d in the s,tas,n of It, the ,s suano which pro produced luce the erG %o next tSs
ammonia AMIN ,s contained med i in it, On thee. the other ., hand !, however ,s,, the 81 experiments smsaa
. nitrogen. equivalent to that in 20 pounds Of suano and employed under
Fertilizer Experiments In Germany.
,na "A little further u, her along on he says s. "T nDs m most stree rs sntoO observation, S%v s1Ins, o on n tn the
knowledge We possess Of heir mode Of nourishment, and of the part which
salts If ammonia, Of chloride Of sodium, and of nitrate # soda, towards
q el nrht o. Dt tS1a action IN IT n. one so OF tb @y ad ps1nsDs o. a te growth os IN of th nIantss
This statement "a made because it a always found that when common
and Won hebg came to the conclusion that this a due to the relation Of
Only a short time after the war between the states the German pot:
ing I'M ACC a combination Hm t%Ht to n bs "" the he potash in the soils on as o removed n%
the potash salts, and here the industry stood for a long time. Liebig does
a found efficient. This fact is very significant and happened Ito be dis
covere by q constant study OF the useo OF the nitrate Of potash
salts. Liebig thought that these two plant food materials had the power
Of dissolving phosphoric acid in the form Of earthly phosphates, and these
in turn added greatly to the yield Of farm crops.
oermanys Crop Yields Greater Than Other Nations.
We have here many hints Of what afterwards really developed to be
facts-namAy that the three great elements Of plant food that should be
applied to the soil for good crop yields are phosphoic acid. ammonia and
potash. For many years these three elements have been the essential
elements Of plant food in q fertilizer formula
! Today Germany applies lori mineral salts per acre to her crops than
any other nation in the world. and partly q q consequence gets higher
yields Of farm crops than any other nation. 1t Is significant that these
two facts are o closely related, but 1t mus be remembered that Germany
has learned the lesson Of good unase-deep blowing the proper use Of
vegetable matter in the soil, and the dangerous practice Of continuous
cropping with any single CROP 1t s also to be remembered that the lands
on which the most money Cal be cleared without any kinds Of fertilizers
are the lands that will give greatest profits with fertilizers.