Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-07
WORTH A TEST ON YOUR OWN FARM

Written Specially For The Bul4etin) Are you interested in increasing your crops ant e1r.ching VOLT soiIP"
 That ls the cTucia, question which Prof. Esten asks the farmers of Con- lection and the whole country.
 What farmer isn't? One can't imag- inc such a critter as a real farmer on s real farm. growing real crops out of real dirt, who Is not interested in that One might as well imagine a white H-- -shird or an eight-leGged calf with 1I- a head,
 It Is. therefore. certain sure that you. who are of the real stun. are interested .n this New Agriculture" which is be- ing worked out, for the first time, on -re szpe-ilnent deld at Storrs where Prof Esteu ts growing crops with bac- teria- Whether you are to take stock .n it accept and adopt it. depends on slat you conclude for yourself after -ou'v0 looked ir thoroughly over.
 But you owe it to yourself. as man interested .u Increasing your crops and curichiur your soil" to give it a fair and careful investigation. T. doesn't in- r-rcs+ anybody else on earth so much as i- doHr you. I- has been worked out and -= being tested our solely as an aid fo y0u If's not a device of anybody's rr rr- rn~.v ou- of you OF some elusive ~li7rHw rro0oFis'ou. Instead. it's a plan -7 .r1hIe you co save money. at -re same time that you're increasing your crops and enrichlng your soil
 hSsnrinE theu. that. as a fair-mind- sf and forwa r1-'ookins farmer yoI're fr'r rr-ar-ful Of you- own prosperity. - ua -eI ycu a few more things aHrH- ibis -hree-acre bacteria field of Prof Es..r's. Tt was. five years ago. ca r1-- os 1u abandoned farm. covered -fr stones thick with bushes, hopeless F.r an 7-f.nrry fsrrLng uses. If it was 70 aH kc the land which today sur ---a r-and Prof. T-sten assures me - vlr rI u'uch or a muchuess-no far -.- vi-b eyes in his head would ever have n'c-cd lt cut for Q field to grow 0----t.kinc crops on. IIe would hardly r1-. -7-s.1crrd if worth fencing for zNar----zrurc Nor Is the soil, when ----.r md bushes have been cleared 7v1V af promising appearance. It v9r'r-'- hove struck you and me- prae- H.r- farmers. as worth blowing and ma rr-~-
 y-t lu rois when Prot. Esten had rr- .t into some sort of shape. he plant .+ quarters of an acre Of mangels -r ono eide The land was well supplied
 fhs Not r- a.a except bacteria. He sold n. -...a rom that three-quarters of f0- s100. enough. as he iubi- ..r.- r7s-rE. 70 nay for all the labor rr te for three years This is m. .r.- .re- on record" he remarks. .r.. -r .r-s-.rent field rsid its own s--.--.- And there were one and .--.rr.r r---e acres or other crops be- s
 Tr- stravbrr-y story; Late in Novem- Dor r7rH re zrt out 500 square feet of -v-.-rv plants Naturally. there H. a-ar ro speak Of in 1919. but -g.. r. harvested fsH heapcd baskets From ..r r---r which sold at wholesaIc -H- t-'f1 rr at The rate of over s2.7o0 a- r-r
 Tt- clover story. "No crop Of clover -- ..a- received farm manure" :" vat . s.a-70. tr' total yield of clover
 -- -t-~ Ave and a half tons rr rr~-- hay 70 the acre. and the rh.- present season. was ar -r- and a quarter tons per hay Can you, under the --0w any such clover with rH- .. simply sy-ravaFaut use of ma .- sa-t,ize-7
 rf---. -roe-Ante and bacteria did it. E- r-e eri1--pon't hesi- rHs- wc-d because Et suggests la --7 --f~roecoDes and long Hrr.r .rHr-a-e co yeu As a matter oi f -.-.aH isn't a hard word to 7-s r 'sn'- anything like as
 .7 0-e's fa'se teeth as 'ca-
 for example Nor are bac- ..-- -rfr'ng new. They "are alWay. rr Inc soil. waiting for an op- -r he treated white SO they
 -1od job." They've been al r---vhere. attending strictly tC
 business eyer since the world be
 "-- f ve want to steer their ac -.r channels of service 10 us ~ -.t arr1d of them and show
 -l1--e Thrv are developed 6r [--f e-f minerals to a nigh state Q
 s- f7- a- we practical farmers ar
 f --- o7c special breed of bac
 are most interested in is tha
 --'s-s too function of cenbin .r f-e nitrogen of the air wit h -.-als -f fha soil and manufactuI
 from rrls union the food whic plant roots aye hungering and thirstin Tor These bacteria make their home 1
 r7iuIa= or whitish knots on tn -1s rf .sEuues, l. e. clover. alfalf; beans. etc The practical an
 '.atrl way 70 get mem ls f. fhsw from tho soil of a field a -rlfr .rrrriotcd with them. Or the r-r -s hor~ht. asked Prof. Esten ho re started his co onies. He answered
 Those nodule bacteria must be oI .alrel from thc iegumes they are adap ri to. Soy bean bacteria must be ol -ainei from some soil where soy bear have been grown. or they may be pu chased. in culture from laboratori preparing them. Or from the depar nc0t of aEriculture D. C. Some e, 0eriment stations furnish them. I 2 ~v soy bean bacteria from the exper -ent st-tion field here; the alfalfa ba eric from soil on tbe college far rAere alfalfa was gr0Sing Glover ba .ria are quite common and I did n