FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 45 



crops that we have grown there, with corn 50c a bushel ; wheat at 

 Si. GO a bushel; oats at 40c, and hay at $10.00 a ton. ijnireated 

 as an average of five years since we began eJiows the a^'erage 

 value of the crops from four acres to be $22.11, and where we 

 put on manure, limestone and phosphorus the four acres have 

 given us $50.47 as an average of five years. The land and 

 labor you might say gave us $22.11 from four acres as a five- 

 year average. The manure gave $5.97, the phosphorus, $1.27, 

 and the addition of limestone gave us $2.mj. What does that 

 mean in the way of profit? We furnished the seed, plowed and 

 prepared the land, did everything that was reasonable in farming, 

 and we got a return from four acres of Sj2.11. On another 

 part of the field, when we started we added six tons of limestone 

 Ihat you can get delivered at the railroad ^^tarion for not more 

 than $6.00. Where we did that, the limestone alone gave us 

 $21.12 compared with $22.11 for the land and labor and the 

 seed and all. 



Now, Mr. President, I think I have tak'-^n all the time T 

 should in giving these facts. If you have anv questions, don't 

 hesitate to interrupt me with them. I will give you some re- 

 sults this year from the Ewing experiment field, in Franklin 

 County: Untreated, 25.5 bushels of corn; manure applied, 40.3 

 bushels; with manure and limestone (five tons per acre in 1909) 

 the corn yield this year was 61.6 bushels per acre. Farmers 

 in the corn belt figure the average, vear sfter year, as 45 

 bushels. Phosphorus gave no increase on the corn there. Tt 

 does not increase the corn crop the way it does wheat, and the 

 wheat this year was reduced a great deal on accounr of the 

 spring drouth in Southern Illinois. 



Untreated land 3delded 5.4 bushels of wheat; with manure. 

 8.2 bushels; with manure and limestone, 18. i bushels, and v/ith 

 manure, limestone and phosphorus, 23.6 bushels. 



Our oats on the Ewing field made 9.7 on untreated land; 

 with manure (applied in 1914 for corn), 16.8 bushels; 37.4 

 with manure and limestone ; and 49.4 with manure, limestone 

 and phosphorus. Where we added limestone and residues, the 

 oats made 43.9 bushels, and with phosphorus included, 44.5 

 bushels. 



