needed. And soil testing is the only 

 practical means for you to insure your- 

 self of a profitable return from lime 

 and fertilizer use. 



Testing your soil is sure to reveal 

 one or more deficiencies which have 

 been holding back your yields. We 

 can now test your soil and tell you 

 what is needed, where it is needed, 

 how much is needed and the approxi- 

 mate increase in yield you will obtain 

 by using either phosphate or potash 

 fertilizers or both. When you use 

 lime and fertilizers as a result of soil 

 testing, you will have a balanced fer- 

 tility program with lime, phosphate 

 and potash all at the proper balance. 

 Whether or not it will be balanced 

 with nitrogen depends upon how good 

 a legume program you have or on how 

 much manure you return or how much 

 commercial nitrogen you plow under. 

 Soil testing is not expensive. It 



Generally speaking all Illinois soils 

 need more active organic matter and 

 nitrogen for highest yields. About 16 

 naillion acres still need limestone. 

 About 18 million acres need phosphate. 

 But only 3 or 6 million acres are more 

 than slightly deficient in potash. 



There are very few soils in Illinois 

 which do not need treatments of some 

 kind in addition to the universal need 

 for nitrogen and organic matter. But 

 no two soils have exactly the same 

 needs. 



To lime these 16 million acres will 

 take about 50 million tons of limestone 

 which at $2.00 per ton is 100 million 

 dollars. 



To get Illinois soils off to a good 

 start as far as phosphate is concerned 

 will require the immediate use of 

 either 11 million tons of rock phos- 

 phate or of 1.6 million tons of super- 

 phosphate at the initial cost of around 



TO PRODUCE 400 BUSHELS OF CORn 



150 lbs. 

 nitrogen 



organic 

 matter 



72 lbs. 

 potassium 



5 million 

 lbs. water 



Entitled "What It Take* to Produce Com" 

 this drawing wob made by U. oi I. College 



costs a few dollars for a 40 acre 

 field and often times this testing 

 is done at a very low fee or even 

 free by the farm adviser. Your 

 farm adviser will also talk over 

 with you the results of the tests 

 and make you definite recommen- 

 dations and a plan for limestone 

 and fertilizer use which fits your 

 own particular field. 

 Get in contact with your farm ad- 

 viser who will give you directions for 

 sampling soil and after it is tested will 

 help you' plan a balanced fertility pro- 

 gram especially adapted to your own 

 soils' needs and your ability to invest 

 in soil treatment. 



of Agriculture extension for use in leaders' 

 schools. 



90 to 160 million dollars, depending 

 upon the phosphate used. To get our 

 soils off to a good start as far as potas- 

 sium is concerned will require the im- 

 mediate use of 200,000 tons per year 

 of muriate of potash at a cost of 10 

 million dollars. 



This totals up to between 200 to 

 250 million dollars as the approxi- 

 mate price to pay for starting our soil 

 fertility program off with a bang. A 

 quarter of a billion dollars is a lot of 

 money but 25 million acres of good 

 rich productive soil (which we do not 

 have but which we can have with a 

 good program) is a lot of productive 

 soil in any country. 



However, let's not be scared by 



such totals. What does this mean 



to the average farmer.' On the 



average this is only $10 per acre 



as the initial cost to get started, 



no where near the value of one 



year's crop. But even this does 



not give the whole picture because 



the average cost per year is much 



lower. 'The average cost per year 



for the first 10 years would be 



only 43 million dollars for the 



state and the cost per acre for the 



individual farmer would depend 



on his own needs, varying from 



$1 to $5 per acre per year. 



Our total crop value for 1942 in 



Illinois, when prices were not much 



above average, was over $600 million. 



The use of 43 million dollars worth of 



treatment would boost this valuation 



to over 800 million dollars or a 200 



million dollar increase for a 43 million 



dollar investment. - 



NAME FARM ADVISER 



Kenneth Imig, Watseka, has been 

 appointed farm adviser for Iroquois 

 county, succeeding H. D. Van Matre 

 who died April 27. 



Imig has been assistant farm ad- 

 viser in Iroquois county since July 

 31, 1943. He was graduated from the 

 University of Illinois College of Ag- 

 riculture in 1936, and had several 

 years' experience on a McLean coun- 

 ty farm and as vocational agricul- 

 tural instructor at Kansas. 



FARM ADVISER RESIGNS 



Resignation of John L. Walter, farm 

 adviser in Massac county, has been an- 

 nounced effective July 1. He plans to 

 return to his farm in Crawford county. 

 He was graduated from the U. of I. Col- 

 lege of Agriculture in 1942, and started 

 work in Massac county in July, 1944. 



CARROLL TO ENGLAND 



Prof. W. E. Carroll, head of the de- 

 partment of animal husbandry, U. of I. 

 College of Agriculture, has arranged 

 with the War department to take charge 

 of educational work in animal husbandry 

 and dairying at one of the American 

 University Study Centers serving Amer- 

 ican occupation troops in Eurofse. 



He was scheduled to leave Urbana 

 June 30 and expects to be stationed at 

 Shrivenham, England. He will serve a 

 minimum of seven months and possibly 

 a year. ... ...... 



The national milk ffiaX for 194; is 121 



billion pounds, which is an increase of three 

 billion pounds over the production in 1944. 



Phenothiazine protects lambs from un- 



thriftiness and death. 



lULY-AUGUST. 1945 



