Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 8, 1905 Page: 2 of 16
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OKLAHOMA FARMER, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1905.
ANY PROBLEM IN GENERAL ACRICULTURE WILL BE DISCUSSED IN THIS DEPARTMENT.
Must Study His Soil.
The importance of farmers knowing
the need of their soil anil proper fer-«
tiiizers is explained in a recent bulle-
tin by the Kentucky Station, explain-
ing the amendment to the fertilizer
law of that state passed last winter.
The law requires manufacturers to
make affidavit guaranteeing the mini-
mum analysis of each, brand of fertili-
zer which they propose to sell in the
state and the director of the agricul-
tural station to print analysis over
his signature in the form of a lag,
Which must be attached to every pack-
age sold.
director Schovell calls attention to
the great improvement of knowing
just what is needed for various soils.
He says:
"Take, for instance, a soil that
needs potash only—as the blue grass
soil of Kentucky; it is evident that a
fertilizer rich in potash should be pur-
chased. Suppose, however, that a
farmer living in the blue grass region
should be offered a fertilizer contain-
ing lb per cent of available prohphoric
acid, 5 per cent of nitrogen, and 1
per cent of potash. The estimated
value of this would be $32.90 a ton;
h
its of Sny lifMiis (oil tln> right) Blown
>it iiiru'iduted with Nitro-Culture.
its on the left are roots grown in
umo soil without inoculation.
the potash in the fertilizer is valued
lit $1.40 ,the phosphoric acid at $11.DO,
and the nitrogen at $17.50. Now, if
he were offered this fertilizer, say.
at $2.1,00 a ton, and its estimated
value was $112.00, lie might think he
was getting it at a low figure, and
would purchase it in preference to
another fertilizer rich in potash. He
would be paying a large amount,
however, for the phosphoric acid an.I
nitrogen .which he did not need. If.
however, lie did not purchase on the
valuation, but on the percentages of
the ingredients, he would see at once
that 1 per cent of potash and 10 per
cent of phosphoric acid and 5 per cent
of nitrogen was not the composition of
fertilizer he was seeking, and lie
would refuse to buy because It did
not contain potash in large quantities.
Other examples might be given where
nitrogen was needed, also phosphoric
acid. The only true way for a farmer
to purchase a fertilizer is on its com-
position. Vie must'look to see how
much Available phosphoric acid, how
much nitrogen and how much potash
it contains, and purchasfl accordingly."
The grain farmer can have no more
profitable stock around the barns than"
half a dozen good cats.
a
when the hurry of work is on It's too lute
to change outfits then, if you haven't a
RUMELY SEPARATOR
now't a good time to net the new cntniog
I describing the Modern Threshing Outfit
I "Kuniely't rear geared Traction Knglne mid
I Separator " It's free, m Rumely Co., La Porle Ind.
Corn Gospel. .
St. Joseph, Feb. 25—Ofter a four
days' tour of northern Missouri the seed
and soil siieciul of the Burjington pu'letl
ill here tonight to stay over Sunday. Thai
trip thus far is regarded with highest sat
Isfuction . by W. H. Manss, industrial
commissioner, and other officials of the
road. In four days, on two of which it
snowed continually, almost 150 lectures
were given by the agricultural college
professors to an audience of 0,473 Mis-
souri farmers. Alvin Keyaer, professor of
agronomy in the agricultural college of
Nebraska, joined the train today, which
increased the membership of the faculty
of the traveling corn college to • five.
The points brought out in the lectures
on soil tiHage today show that this
subject Is equally important with those
of seed selection and soil fertility. Un-
scientific tillage will reduce a crop any-
where from 10 to 90 per cent. Soil which
is stirred when it is too wet bakes in
airtight cakes like bricks anvl several
seasons are required to return it to* per-
fect tilth. The farmer would far better
wait until the field was dry than to be-
come impatient and ruin his soil for a
year or two. Such cultivation can do no
good, for tlie crop remains dwarfed and
produces little grain. Deep plowing is
desirable only in breaking land. It makes
a deep seed bed and iowers the water
table on land too wet. .tvll subsequent til-
lage should be shallow. The object is to
form 'j dense mulch of dust or tine earth
to prevent the escape of moisture from
the soil. Two or three Inches is the depth
to set the shovels of the corn plow. The
farmer who tollows the general rule of
"laying by" his corn by going through
it with the shovels digging down to the
greatest depth passible thereby tears the
roots of his corn apart, ruins his mulch
and cuts down hi'/ corn crop ten or lif-
Wfii NOW
WATS The
KINO OF
CORN I UKl)
(II11
In the ear. orated, or shelled. Sucketl or in Itulk. Cur lots at
tempting pi-lees. Well matured, carefully selected. Urown on tlio
Nlslina Vatlev. in Iowa. The kind farmers want. Change your seiil
and get an increased yield. 1'irst party ordering live bushels or more
froni uuv locality can Wave Clanlcn Seeds tree enough to plan! a
garden or a special discount on lots of tun bushels or more t > cents
tn r bushel. 2IUXXI bushels ol SI. Charles White, Iowa Silver Mine and
Mammoth White, ready to ship on short notice. Our Corn is all hand-
licked and graded. Sou get an evener stand. Cooper's Prime Yellow, the
.argcst and la st early corn that grows. Iowa Learning Mortgage Utter.
S«>nd 2f) cents in stamps and we will mail you an car nicely parked. f'ata
logue free telling all about our Corn. We have also Spring Seed Wheat,Speltz,
Seed Outs, ami all kinds of other Seeds. A whole Kuril eli for fl.(K).
A/fSfffl/A VALLEY SEED CO.HHmbBu0rx\'"—
teen bushels an acre. Rotation of crops
helps in cultivation. Hay land can be
pjowed to tlie right depth for grain or
wheat while corn land cannot be, owing
to the fact that the seed bed is softer
than the subsoil.
TREATMENT OP THE SUBSOIL.
A subsoil must be worked and aired
before the food elements in it are in a
form assimilable to plants. When this
hard subsoil is dug up anjl mixed with
the soft bed of a corn field it is injurious
to the best results in cropping.
Three more days have been added to
the itinerary of the corn special,, which
was to end at Kansas City Monday night.
On Tuesday it will go front Kansas City
to Oilman; Wednesday from Oilman to
Novinger, and .rjrsday from Novinger
to Quincy. The lecture cars are deco-
rated with rows of corn and there are
on the train four large busts of King
Corn in fac simile of the figure Missouri
exhibited nt the world's fair.
A glance at the past week's work of the
seed and soil special shows that sixty-
eight towns have been visited and more
than <>.4n0 farmers received free trans-
portation to and from the points at which
lectures were given. The audiences at
the lectures were the most attentive
and good nature 1 imaginable. They en-
joyed the novelty of living the honored
guests of a railroad and' although there
were instances where some distrustful
ones da.'fd not risk the peril of the oc-
topus when he smuvs the great major-
ity of the farmers were hard headed
men who kept keen * yes fixed on the
charts and seed corn samples and listen-
ed eagerly t<> every word that would help
them in their struggle with the soil.
The spectacle of a trainload of blue over-
all clad farmers, their pockets f ill of
corn, explaining their own theories and
comparing them with those of the coCleg^e
professors as the train sped along a
squad dropping off at one station to re-
turn, while new recruits took their plac-
es in the everehanging audience, is a
spectacle unique in the history of agri-
culture and of education.
"I believe," said W. II. Manss, in
charge of .«■ train, "with --can Swift,
who said 'The man who can make two
blades of grass grow where one grew be-
fore, or two ears ot corn where there
was but one, is more of a benefactor to
humanity than the whole race of poli-
ticians.' I do" not pretend that I am en-
tirely philanthropic in this undertaking
for I expect the railroads to benclit by
the benefit of the farmer. That the av-
erngv corn crop is twenty-four bushels an
acre in Missouri is ridiculous. Since it is
quite posible to double that tigure by
scientific methods ot farming, it seems to
me that it is high time something radi-
cal were done to awaken every farmer
in the land."
The seed train consists or tour coaches.
Two of them are lecture ears and two are
the private cars of the professors and toe
railroad officials.
SALZER'S NATIONAL OATS
Yea, farmers of America, lend me your ears, while I chant the merits of thin new Oat
Novelty. It l positively the most wonderful Oat on earth.
Kdltors, Agricultural Writers, Institute Orators all talk noil write about Oils new Oat. It
yielded lo Wis. 150 Int., In Ohio 1H7 >u., In Mich. >J:J1 bu., In Mo. Hr,~r bit., and In N. I). :$IO hu.
acre, during I'.MM, and In 1UU5 you can grow Just as easily 3UO bu. per acre of MAI./.KIt'S
N \TltK\AIj OATS, as we can. Your land Is just as good, Jusl as rich and you are Just as good a
farmer as we are. We hope you will try tills oat In l'J05, and then sell same for seed to your
neighbors at a fancy prlcc, next fall. "
MACARONI WHEAT
Yielded for thousands offarmers In 1<J04, scattered all over America, from SO to HO Ixl. per
acre of as line a wheat as the sun shines on. It does well on arid, dry lauds, as also on rich
farm lauds. It Is the only wheat that laughs at droughts and scotl's at lllack It list that terri-
ble scourge. It's rust proof!
Billion Dollar Grass
and Teosinte.
Speltz or Emmer,
80 Bu. per Acre.
Wonderful Speltz, marvelous Speltz,
pro 11 ta I le Speltz, I lie farmer's firm friend,.
nourishing every wliereand yielding ho hu.
of main und 4 tons of splendid straw hay
per ftcfe besides. l.
Home Builder Corn.
Was named lieeause .V) acres in 1902pro- I
dueed so bountifully that it built and paid
I or a Iteautiful home. See Salzer's eata |
log. It is the biggest eared early and
heaviest yielding Yellow Dent Corn we-
know.* ^ lelds tt to 800 bu per acre.
Onion Seed 60e.
A noble pair. Million Dollar Grata,
the most talked of grass on earth, makes
14 tons of tine hay per aere, while Teo-
sinte astonishes and startles you with ho
• tons of green food per aere, rieh in sugar
and milk and food values.
Potatoes—736 Bu. per Acre.
The Editor of the Rural New Yorker
proclaimed to the world that Salzer's
Karly Wisconsin Potato yielded for him
736 bu. per acre. That pays]
ABSOLUTELY FREE
a pound, ami other vegetable seeds just
us low. We are the largest-Vegetable
Seed growers in the world, operating
0000 acres*
$10.00 lor 10c.
We wish you to try our great Farm
Heeds, hence offer to semi you a lot of
' Kami Seed Samples, fully worth $10.00
! to get ii start, to^eth*r with our gicut
wed catalog, all for but 10c. postage, If
you mention this paper. It you already
huv our catalog mention il, and we will
I send something else in place.
T THRESHING TIME
If you will send us the accurate address of three wideawake farmers, to whom we can write, gitlng.your name as
reference, so that we can mail to them our great plant and seed catalog, we will send to you free of all cost.our magnificent
140-paged catalog, ami a package of
EGYPTIAN CLOVER (with full culturalIrectlone).
ooming from the highlands of Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs; the Sphinx ami the Pyramids, the land of luxuriant
verdure am! prodigal growths. This Clover will astonish you.
You may send the three names on a postal card, With full address, and he sure to give tyour name and address cor-
rectly w hen sending the three names. When writing us be sure and mention name of this paper.
J?HNA.SALZERSEED(?|ACROSSE
wis.
When writing to Salzer be sure to mention this paper,-Kditor.
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Greer, Frank H. Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 8, 1905, newspaper, March 8, 1905; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88041/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.