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Alfalfa Seed For 



July Sowing Plentiful 



There IS plenty of alfalfa seed for 

 summer planting at reasonable prices 

 but Sudan grass seed is scarce and 

 high priced, according to Paul V. 

 Kelly, manager of the seed division of 

 the Farmers National Grain Corpora- 

 tion. 



Mr. Kelly states that Kansas, Ne- 

 braska, Utah and Michigan alfalfa 

 seed is plentiful and no higher in 

 price than a year ago. Montana seed 

 is about all gone and Dakota 12 al- 

 falfa, a popular variety, is non-exist- 

 ent this year because of the drouth 

 in the Dakotas a year ago. 



The outlook for clover, timothy, 

 blue grass and production of other 

 seeds this year is not so good because 

 of the severe drouth throughout the 

 country early this season. Mr. Kelly 

 reports a heavy demand for sudan 

 grass seed because so much of the 

 early seeding of clover killed out 

 through lack of moisture. 



The Farmers National is in a posi- 

 tion to supply farmers* elevators. 

 Farm Bureaus and other co-operatives 

 with high-quality seeds in carload or 

 L. C. L. lots. The seed division located 

 in the Fisher Bldg., Chicago, is oper- 

 ated strictly as a co-operative with 

 provision for patronage dividends to 

 stockholder members. .j - ; 



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hoarding for all people, and food, 

 leisure, clothing, homes, jobs and hap- 

 ' piness for all who come with fair 

 >: minds and willing hearts into our 

 ' land, should be a not impossible goal 

 V in this land of plenty. True, it is a jig- 

 saw puzzle that takes brains to fit to- 

 gether, but the parts are all there. 

 Science, experts, constitutional law- 

 yers with a desire to interpret for 

 i the masses, students of sociology, eco- 

 nomics and some mighty good sales 

 sense to get the whole program ac- 

 cepted, can work out this jig-saw puz- 

 zle, but it may take more days than 

 just the few you are willing to wait. 

 . But, laugh with the echoing laugh- 

 ter of the much beset President Roose- 

 velt. It is better than the despondency 

 or hopelessness of the subsidized or 

 the prejudiced, or the Tory press 

 would have you adopt as they criti- 

 cize, but offer no alternative. Truly 

 our country is improving daily. We 

 are thinking, and that is progress. 



The proportion which the aggrregrate of the 

 •ther classes of citizens bears in anj state to 

 that of its husbandmen, is. r^neraUy ipeakinr, 

 : the proportion of its unsound to ita healthy 

 /: parts, and is a good enoagh barometer whereby 

 ' to measure its degree of eormption.— Thomas 

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The seeder type spreader shown above is most satisfactory for spreading ground rock phosphate 

 and agricultural limestone. Picture shows Minott Silliman of Stark county spreading phosphate. 



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Phosphorus Is Key 



To Permanent Farming 



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Phosphorus, purchased most cheaply 

 in the form of ground rock phosphate, 

 was characterized by Dr. Cyril G. 

 Hopkins, the great soil expert, as the 

 key to permanent agriculture on the 

 most common soils of the United 

 States. 



„ To maintain or increase the amount 

 of phosphorus in the soil makes pos- 

 sible the growth of clovers and al- 

 falfa and the consequent addition of 

 nitrogen from the inexhaustible sup- 

 ply in the air. v- '^^ ^ 

 T^ And with the addition of decaying 

 organic matter to the soil, potassium, 

 magnesium and other elements are 

 liberated so they can be assimilated 

 by growing plants. . ... • , <;, v.v. ? 



fi;,;: Poverty Only Future ; ^ 'vV: 



- If the supply of phosphorus in the 

 soil is steadily decreased, without re- 

 plenishment, poverty is the only future 

 for the people who till the common 

 agricultural lands of the United 

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" On most Illinois soils applications 

 of 1,000 to 2,000 pounds of ground 

 rock phosphate per acre are recom- 

 mended. Since rock phosphate also 

 contains calcium, soils not too high in 

 acidity will usually grow sweet clover 

 and alfalfa with the sole addition of 

 this fertilizer. ^ 



The most practicable way of spread- 

 ing rock phosphate or limestone on 

 the land is to use a seeder type 

 spreader which can be regulated to 

 spread any desired amount per acre. 

 For this type of spreader the material 

 must be dry to flow readily. . , . 

 : Where manure is to be spread, rock 

 phosphate may well be spread with it. 

 The phosphate may be sprinkled over 



the manure from day to day as it is 

 being made in the stall or covered 

 feeding shed. The spreader may be 

 partly loaded and the phosphate 

 sprinkled on sufficient for the load. If 

 manure sprinkled with phosphate is al-^ 

 lowed to leach before being spread on 

 the land there is danger of some of 

 the phosphate leaching also, whereas 

 if the fertilizer is spread on the land 

 imr ediately after being taken from 

 the car where manure has been or will 

 be applied, the phosphate can later be 

 plowed under with the manure with 

 no danger of logs. .. '• 



Members of the 1. A. A. may pur- 

 chase rock phosphate of guaranteed 

 quality and fineness of grinding at a 

 special discount of 50c per ton from 

 the I, A. A. contract companies, Ruhm 

 Phosphate and Chemical Co., Chicago, 

 and Midwest Farm Supply Co., Joliet. 

 The delivered price varies from around 

 $11 to $13 per ton depending on per-^ 

 centage of phosphorus, determined by 

 individual carload tests, and on the 

 freight rate from the mines in Ten•^ 



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Ask Freight Cut On ij 



Ground Rock Phosphate 



G. W. Baxter of the I. A. A. trans- 

 portation division, recently appeared 

 before railroad representatives urging 

 that freight rates from Tennessee to 

 Illinois farms on rock phosphate be 

 cut at least 50 per cent. The rate from 

 Tennessee to Chicago via freight was 

 recently reduced from $4.50 to $3.38 

 per net ton to compete with cheap 

 water rates on phosphate from Florida 

 via the Atlantic Ocean, Erie Canal 

 and Great Lakes. 



The I. A. A. believes there would 

 be much wider use of ground rock 

 phosphate if freight rates were lower, 



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