The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-06
(By Associated Press)

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov 6.--Of five
states which were represented at a
conference on the reduction of useless
fertilizer analyses, held at Chicago
lato in October Ohio is the first to
fertilizer list, within which, Ohio farm
ers are advised to confine their fer
tilizer purchases in the future, it be
came known here today.
At the Chicago conference, agronom
lists of Ohio. Indiana, Michigan, Mis-
souri,, and Wisconsin picked out 13
mbinations of fertilizers commonly
offered by commercial companies, and
stated that these analyses were suf-
ficient to meet all of the crop and soil
needs of their states. Each state, sep
arately, agreed to pick II of this list
of Is as the standard dozen" fertlliz-
ers within its borders.
Firman E. Bear, head of the depart
ment of soils at Ohio State university
was Ohio's representative. Returning
he went to Wooster, where expert
ment station officials joined in the
preparation of a list that will be an.
nounced later.
Keep List Before Farmers.
The college plans actively to keep
this list before farmers. Twenty-Five
thousand envelope and windshield
stickers bearing the II recommended
analyses have been ordered, and they
will be distributed to farm bureau
members all over the state. The col
lege, of course, is not recommending
brands, but only certain analyses of
acid phosphate and complete fertiliz-
ers, which all, companies manufacture,
and which any farm can mix at home.
No analysis on the list, Prof. Bear
said, will add up to less than total of
16 percent nitrogen, phosphoric acid,
and potash. Officials of Is fertilizer
companies, consulted as to the prac-
ticality of the analyses said all could
be mixed, and that to concentrate
manufacture and sales energies on
those analyses would affect consid-
cradle economy.
According to Prof. Bear, 81 varieties
of fertilizer are now listed for sale in
Ohio, many of them of such low power
as to be next to useless.
Institute Season Open
The 1929 winter Institute sea-
son" now is open. Opening institutes
were held in Noble, Gallia, Guernsey,
Athens, and Perry Counties, on Oct
80 and 81.
In all, 352 such farmers institutes
are scheduled. four in each of the So
counties of the state. A staff of At
speakers, mainly farmers and farm
wives, go in pairs from institute to in
stitute and are the state speakers"
at the two-day sessions where most of
the discussions are by home talent
The total attendance at the $50 state
aid institutes last year was 364,973.
This years attendance is expected to
surpass that.
F. l.. Allen, supervisor of the work,
said additional, effort would be made
this year to stress the place of the
farm woman, in an attempt to build
up more satisfying farm and commu-
nifty life in the open country?
The institutes will continue until the
first week in March.
Farmers in all sections of Ohio are
being urged to keep a record of land
sales in their communities with the
idea of getting fair idea of these val
ues over period of time. The methods
of collecting the data and reasons for
its collection are set forth in a state
ment issued recently by C. A. Dyer.
legislative agent of Ohio farm organi-
cations.
"A recent decision of the United
States supreme court, followed by in
junction suits instituted by public util-
tiles against county treasurers to pre-
vent the collection of taxes on the 100
per cent assessments of the utilities
puts the question of repraisement
squarely before the state tax commits
sion," said Mr.. Dyer
1T is recommended and urged that