Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1954-01-05
Soil And CrOp
Meet Draws rs
Here Wednesday

over ~ lIiCll dIlCiiuGu tlIC oil
day Soil and Crop Improvement
meeting in the basement of the
Court House Wednesday, Decem-
Der 80, according to Harold
Friend, Chairman of the Agron-
omy Committee.
H. H. Tucker, Agronomist with
the Coke Oven Ammonia Research
Bureau, Columbus, discussed the
merits of the different forms of
fertilizers, stating that there was
no miracle about fertilizer; that it
took a certain amount Of nutrients
to make an increase in crop yields
and that it was important for far
mers to figure out the available
nutrients in different forms Of fer
tilizerS and buy the most reason
able price goods. AS far as Nitro
gen, particularly. was concerned,
that a pound of nitrogen in almost
any form will give the same re-
suits to plant growth, therefore,
buy the form that is the cheapest
per pound of available nitrogen.
He also showed a very interesting
film on The Miracle of Plant
Growth"
Paul Bangham and Dorman
Wright of the Soil Conservation
Service in Madison County, show
ed some very interesting colored
slide pictures taken in Madison
County.
Eugene Mitchell from the Soil
Conservation Service in Columbus,
discussed and showed interesting
slides on the proper method of
constructing and seeding grass
waterways.
He stated that spring seeding
of waterways was the most diff
cult time to get grasses establish
ed and that the improved way of
getting around this problem was to
seed the waterway in the spring
by drilling about 4 bushels to the
acre of corn in the waterway and
then early fall make ensilage out
of the corn and with very light
discing seed your grass. He en-
phasiZed that fescue was one of
the best grasses for a waterway
E. p. Reed, Extension Agronomist
at O.S.U., discussed the latest crop
varieties and the topic of how you
can increase your net income by
the use of fertilizer, stating that
this was one of the last places a
farmer wanted to cut his expenses.
Robert Phillips discussed the
seed corn variety plots that the
young farmers in the Madison Ru-
raj Vo-Ag Department seeded and
harvested last year. 1t was a very
interesting presentation of the re-
suits of different hybrids grown in
Madison County.
Mr.. c. G. Harsh discussed the
1854 wheat and corn allotments,
stating that the corn allotment was
not definite at this time, and that
if it did become effective, that it
would not have any affect on the
wheat allotment program.
John Moore, County Agricultur-
al Agent, discussed with Roy
Lombard and Lennie Boerger the
Importance of spraying the hay
crop for spittlebug and Mr.. Lom-
bard and Mr.. Boerger carried out
demonstrations on spraying the
second cutting alfalfa for leaf hop
pers. Both reported a satisfactory
gain in yields. Mr.. Moore also dis
eussed the results of the fertilizer
demonstrations on corn, wheat and
hay crops in Madison County dur
ing the past year, stating that 65
different farmers had cooperated
in applying high analysis T.V.A.
Phosphate and Nitrogen fertiliZ-
ers, as demonstrations during the
past year.
Detailed programs can be OBJ
tanned from the Extension Office
on the Agronomy Program.
Lennie Boerger, Irwin, was elect
ed as chairman of the County Ag-
ronomy Committee for next year.