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“Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 4, 1918 
Immediate Service 
on Piston Rings 
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General Farm Topics 
Phosphate for Indiana Soils 
The Indiana E.vperiment Station lia.a 
issued a circular. No. 79, discussing the 
need of phosphorus on Indiana soils. 
Several different types of soils were se¬ 
lected, and careful experiments which 
have now run several years were made. 
The object was first of all to learn wheth¬ 
er most Indiana soils need phosphorus 
as a fertilizer; also whether lime i.s use¬ 
ful, and what form of phosphorus i.s most 
profitable. There is no question about 
the general need of phosphorus. All the 
experiments clearly showed that, and it 
is evident that Indiana soils, as well as 
most of tho.so in the Mississippi Valley, 
are deficient in this element. That was 
naturally to be expected. Such soils were 
probably low in phosphorus from the be¬ 
ginning, and the crops taken away from 
them, such as grain and live stock, have 
through nearly a century carried away 
great quantities of this element. It is 
safe to say, therefore, that in this section, 
and especially where clover and Alfalfa 
are largely grown, jihosjihorns is the 
dominating element, which must be sup¬ 
plied in any profitable system of agricul¬ 
ture. The question to be determined was 
whether acid phosphate at the present 
high prices will prove more profitable 
than the ground rock phosphate, so hear¬ 
tily endorsed by the Illinois Experi¬ 
ment .Station. The.se results in Indiana 
are all one way, and they seem to show 
without any question whatever that acid 
lihosphate has given more profitable re¬ 
turns than the line ground rock; in fact, 
these results have led the station to make 
the following recommendation: 
Apply from 150 to 200 poiuid.s jier 
acre of acid phosphate vor .some other 
available phosphate t^ each grain crop 
in the rotation. In a. permanent system, 
where manure is applied for corn, enough 
phosphate for the whole rotation may he 
most coiiveiiieiitly applied when .seeding 
wheat or oats. Under certain systems of 
farming, where the crops are not all fed 
on the farm, it will pay, under normal 
conditions, to add some nitrogen and jiot- 
asli in the fertilizer. 
The point is that in these times when 
crops are needed as promptly as possible, 
we innst use available plant food, and 
that is supplied in the acid phosphate. 
These experiments show that in the first 
and second crops, after application, the 
increase from acid pho.sphate has been 
from three to 25 times as large as from 
the rock phosphate, both when equal 
quantities or equal money values were 
used. In answer to the objection that 
acid phosphate may make the .soil sour, 
the facts of this experiment do not .show 
any such things. Thi.s bulletin .states 
that the use of acid pho.sphate will reduce 
the need of lime on acid soils. 'J'he pic¬ 
ture at Fig. 280, taken from thi.s bulletin, 
contrasts the effect of the two kinds of 
phosphate. The larger shock at the left 
grew where lime, manure and acid pho.s- 
phate were used. In this case the crop 
was C4 bushels of corn per acre. On the 
right hand side, lime, manure and rock 
phosphate were used. This gave 42 bush¬ 
els of corn per acre, while lime and ma¬ 
nure, without any phosphate, gave a little 
over 88 bushels. There seems to be no 
question about the fact that the use of 
the jihosphate greatly increases the pro¬ 
duction of clover, aside from the applic.a- 
tion of lime. 
It is an unfortunate thing that the 
price of acid phosphate is now so high; 
in fact, in many cases it is impossible to 
buy the phosphate alone. Many people 
are trying variou.s forms of pho.sphorus, 
in the hope of finding a cheaper substi¬ 
tute for the phosphorus iu order to get 
through. It is quite possible that for 
building up land, and for work through a 
long rotation, some forms of the raw 
phosphate will be very valuable, hut most 
Eastern farmers will make a mistake if 
they deiiend entirely upon the nnsoluhlo 
phosphorus. 
Soil Analysis 
I have laud in Tennessee and Wiscon¬ 
sin for which it i.s difficult to get manure. 
As I wish to bring these lands up to a 
very high state of productivity while crop¬ 
ping, I suppose I shall have to use chem¬ 
icals. Can I get the soils an.alyzed any¬ 
where by anybody, and have the results 
stated in such a way that I shall know 
what l•llenli(•ills to apply to do the inosi 
good? Of course, 1 expect to use a little 
manure and trash with it. O. (,’. 
Onarga, Ill. 
It is not likely that soil analysis will 
help you as much as yon imagine. The 
chemist can tell you whether your soil is 
sour and lacking in lime, whether it needs 
organic matter and if there is any ele¬ 
ment parciciilarly lacking, but a full 
chemical analysis is not as important iu 
practical farming as many people inn^ino. 
The best thing you can do is to apply to 
the State Experiment Station and to the 
Farm Bureau Agent in the county where 
your land i.sMocated. The Experiment 
Station of Tennessee is at Knoxville, 
while that of Wiscon.sin is at Madi.son. 
Through the station and the Farm Bu¬ 
reau you can find out what the.se soils 
need and in a general way get sound ad¬ 
vice about handling them. It is surely 
possible to develop .soil by u.sing chemicals 
and green crops with lime. In many ca.ses 
live stock will pay better, but it is quite 
jios.sible to improve any soil with lime, 
chemicals and green crops, if you have 
the capital and the patience to follow 
out a definite plan. 
Quantity of Beans for Seeding 
On jiage 488 I note with intere.st what 
F. II. M. has to say about planting beans 
in hills. AVill someone tell me how many 
beans of the small white pea bean variety 
will be required to plant three acre.s in 
rows 80x10 inches? llow far apart is 
corn planted? w. il. I. 
It will require about three pecks of pea 
or navy beans to plant an acre 80x10 
inches, planting four to five beaus iu a 
hill. We always plant these bean.s in 
rows 28 inches apart, as the bean cutter 
dues better work at that width; .8^^ feet 
by 10 inches iu hills is too close for corn 
intended for a husking oro]), but would 
be all right for silage. Even then it 
would he bettor in a continuous drill row. 
If for husking, ^^2 feet apart for the 
rows, and one stalk every 10 inches is 
])lenty thick, and 12 inches apart would 
give better results. u. b. cox. 
“For the Land’s Hake, use Bowker's 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it .”—A dr. 
