Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-01-25

Be sure to attend the free poultry
show to be held at the Opera House,
February 2, 3, 4, under the auspices
of the Vernon County Poultry Assoc
citation.
This is not q money making propo-
sition for the association but an or
ganization formed to benefit the poul-
try raisers and industry as whole.
Interest in poultry raising can be
stimulated in no better way than by
making an exhibit at our poultry show
and the farmer himself should take
an active interest in these exhibitions.
The farmer who wants to get his
boys and girls interested in poultry
can do no better than encourage them
to show the best fowls they have,
at the poultry show county or state
fairs.
The rules of most poultry shows do
not require that the birds shall be
raised BY the exhibitor nor do they
require that the exhibitor shall be q
member Of any poultry association.
Thus it is an open field to everybody
and simply a case where ssthe best
bird wins This is as it should be
and makes a wholesome competition.
q Now is the time to begin to think
about baby chicks and Matching time.
Come to the poultry show and hear
the different speakers discuss the diff
ferent breeds. Get ideas from the
Judge, who viii be ready to answer
any and all questions on the breed
you ike. Get ideas about making up
your pens for early hatching-breed
for the best of every type Early
matches are the big profits in poultry
industry.
There viii be addresses every after
ssf% lna eNr s,nd q wa
cannot afford to miss.
Eggs and chickens for sale in all
classes and breeds.
Room viii be furnished to any one
who has birds fer sale, not interested
in the premiums, providing they bring
their own coops as the supply of steel
coops are limited.
Anyone wishing extra blanks may
get them from the secretary.
A member of the association will
be at the Farmers Bank every day
from l to p. m. from Jan. 26 to
Feb. 2.
Send in you entries by mail if I'M
able to bring them.
Look over your flock of chickens
geese and turkeys. Give them
chance to win a premium.
Help boost the first poultry show
ever held in Vernon county. You
can't afford to miss it.
MRS. JAMES HOGAN, Sec.
Rock Phosphate
Our county agent tells US Vernon
county soil requires phosphorus, and
that is true. Every animal and crop
we sell removes that very important
element from our SOIL He recon-
mends "high acid phosphate $50 at
$72.80 per ton f. o. b. Viroqua."
For years have tried to have our
farmers ship into the county finely
ground Tennessee rock phosphate con-
tanning $50 pounds per ton of the ele-
ment phosphorus and costing until
four years ago, only SO 10 $40 per ton
IN car lots here. One ton of that rock
phosphate and ton of sulphuric acid
make two tons Of acid phosphate, cost
$145.6e. | doubt if that ton of acid
is much good on our soil. We are
buying lime to make the soil less acid
and all acid does is to make the phos-
phate quickly assimilable by the plant
That rock phosphate mixed with sta
bic manure in winter or spread on the
spreader full of manure in spring will
by contact with organic matter have
its phosphorus liberated so plant life
can assimilate it. You don't get all
the good of a phosphate fertilizer; the
first year you apply it. John Han
sons $500 an acre tobacco crop last
year was partly due to my adding
daily pint of rock phosphate to the y
four or five years before. When you
sell a ton of tobacco you sell ten or
twelve dollars worth of phosphorus.
For that reason every tobacco raiser {
should buy phosphate in some form.
For this year it may have paid to :
buy acid phosphate at the rate of over
cents a pound for the phosphate
rock in the mixture, but | doubt it.
But for next year there should be
shipped in this winter in car lots
enough rock phosphate so every farm
er could have 2 ton or two to use. and Z
mix with the manure during the win
ter. 1t must never be sown broad
cast without plenty of organic mat
ter, clover or rye plowed under. DIR.
Hopkins, who was called to- Greece !.
to study her soils and who died at Glib
eralter was probably the worlds great
est soil expert and had built up his
own farms with rock phosphate. He
declared that every dollar spent for it
returned him three dollars in better
crops. crossed Italy one April day
from Brindisi to Naples The whole
country was one big garden, rich,
glorious. Then | read, Italy uses
more phosphate fertilizer yearly than
is removed by all her crops Vernon
county fertility is slowly being sold
in the tobacco bundle. There is no
doubt Of it. A lot of our farmers are
soil robbers, and soil robber is worse
than bank robber. His sin carried
far enough the soil robber will starve
the world Remedy: Make it easy
for your county agent to order fifty
car loads of rock phosphate at this
winters institutes by agreeing to buy
a ton. In the meantime, if you live
nearby purchase of Moen few tons
Of finely powdered limestone and an
ply direct to your clover for our old
soils are nearly all acid. | read,
County Agents report to the county
board. Vernon county soils plus acid
phosphate and lime equal wonderful
results; 55 samples soil tested for
acid, 55 showed high acidity. Then
why recommend acid phosphate for
an acid soil? Buy rock phosphate at
tenth the cost.
c. v. PORTER.
P. s. A letter from NJ H. GRAY. deal
er, MtPleasant, Tenn. Dee. 1S, saws:
For goods guaranteed to contain
equivalent 1870 phosphorus in 200