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November 12, 1921 
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Make the milking operation clean by clipping 
the hair from the flanks and udders of the cows 
every three or four weeks. 
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moves all dirt and offal, and the milk falls into 
the pail clean and wholesome for both children 
and adults to use. 
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Inoculated Sulphur 
Its Value and Uses for Agricultural Purposes 
Part II 
Cultivation often depletes the soil of its 
sulphur content very rapidly. 
There is ample evidence at hand to 
prove that the continued cultivation of 
any soil area will tend to reduce its re¬ 
serves of sulphur as it will of that of 
other plant food ingredients, except in so 
far as the loss may be made good or 
more than made good by manuring and 
fertilization. Several of our experiment 
stations have made a study of the plant 
food content in virgin and corresponding 
cultivation soils. These studies are quite 
interesting in showing the rate at which 
plant food may be lost from our soils un¬ 
der different conditions. We find among 
such studies a comparison of virgin and 
cultivated soils with respect to their sul¬ 
phur content. The following table, taken 
from one of the bulletins of the Kentucky 
Experiment Station, shows the amount of 
sulphur per acre found in the soils, both 
virgin and cultivated, of some of the 
prominent geological soil areas. 
cipitation from one place to another, and 
that the amount of coal, crude oil and 
wood burned is a factor of considerable 
importance in determining the sulphur 
content of the atmosphere in any given 
locality. 
Sulphur Washes or Drains from the Soil 
Rapidly 
The losses of sulphur in drainage 
waters more than offset the quantities of 
this constituent brought down in precipi¬ 
tation. The records at the Rothamsted, 
England, Experimental Station show an 
annual loss of sulphur in drainage equiva¬ 
lent to 20 lbs. per acre. Where manures 
and fertilizers containing sulphur have 
been used at Rothamsted the amount of 
sulphur in the drainage water is increased 
and ranges from 34 to 88 lbs. per acre. 
In this country the investigations at Cor¬ 
nell show losses of sulphur in drainage 
equivalent to 30 to 44 lbs. per acre. It 
is safe to state, therefore, that the sul¬ 
phur contributed by the air offsets only 
in part the losses caused by the removal 
of sulphur in drainage, a fact which ex¬ 
plains the gradual impoverishment of 
cultivated soils insofar as sulphur is con- 
Table III. 
Average Number of Pounds Per Acre in Virgin and Cultivated Soils and Subsoils 
Virgin 
_ 
Cultivated 
. > 
Per Cent of Loss 
Due to Cultivation 
Eastern Coal Fields- 
Soils . 
Subsoils . 
Keokuk-Waverly— 
Soils . 
Subsoils . 
Trenton— 
Soils . 
Subsoils . 
Silurian— 
Soils . 
Subsoils . 
* Gain. 
It will he observed that the cultivated 
soils contain less sulphur than the cor¬ 
responding virgin soils; in some cases the 
differences are very marked. Thus the 
cultivated soils of the Eastern ccal fields 
area have apparently lost 38 per cent of 
their sulphur, while the soils of the 
Silurian area have lost 37 per cent of 
their original sulphur. Also the subsoils 
have suffered more or less marked losses 
of sulphur. On the other hand, the 
losses of phosphorus have been smaller, 
and in some cases there was an apparent 
gain of phosphorus in .both the surface 
and subsoil. This may possibly be ex¬ 
plained by the concentration of phos¬ 
phorus in the surface and subsurface soils 
due to the bringing up of soluble phos¬ 
phates by capillarity from the deeper 
layers of the subsoil. 
It seems, then, that certain crops have 
more pronounced sulphur requirements 
than others; that large crops will remove 
more sulphur from the land, and there¬ 
fore require a larger supply of it; that 
the land does not always furnish suffi¬ 
cient quantities of sulphur, especially for 
crops belonging to the legumes and 
Cruciferae; and that the store of sulphur 
present in virgin soils tends to dwindle 
down, which may ultimately mean a sup¬ 
ply too limited for the needs of large 
crops, especially of those whose sulphur 
requirements are quite pronounced. 
Rain and Snow Bring Sulphur to the Soil 
It now remains to call attention here 
to the amounts of sulphur contributed by 
the atmosphere in the form of rain and 
snow, and likewise to the amount of sul¬ 
phur lost from soils by drainage. Fairly 
definite information on the addition of 
sulphur in atmospheric precipitation is 
available from both American and Euro¬ 
pean sources. Analyses of rain and snow 
covering a period of many years have 
been published by the itothamsted Ex¬ 
perimental Station in England. These 
show that the amount of sulphur brought 
down per acre annually, in a precipita¬ 
tion which is equivalent to about 30 
inches of rain per annum, is approxi¬ 
mately 7.5 lbs. per acre. Similar studies 
at the University of Wisconsin indicate 
that the amount of sulphur brought down 
from the air is about 10 lbs. per acre per 
annum. On the other hand, it is claimed 
by the Illinois Experiment Station that 
the precipitation at Urbana, Illinois, con¬ 
tributes annually about 30 to 45 lbs. of 
sulphur per acre. These amounts are un¬ 
usually high, and may possibly l>e ex¬ 
plained by the fact that there is a good 
deal of soft coal burned at Urbana and 
vicinity. In fact, it is quite evident that 
there is a good deal of variation in the 
amount of sulphur brought down in pre¬ 
Sulphur 
Phos¬ 
phorus 
Sulphur 
Phos¬ 
phorus 
Sulphur 
Phos¬ 
phorus 
598 
1,337 
371 
1,031 
38 
23 
3G8 
964 
220 
886 
40 
8 
360 
540 
350 
555 
3 
*3 
213 
460 
167 
387 
22 
16 
815 
5,550 
724 
7.460 
11 
*34 
587 
5,860 
560 
7,240 
5 
*24 
760 
1,080 
480 
880 
37 
19 
430 
800 
370 
770 
14 
4 
cerned. These facts account also for the 
crop increases which, under certain con¬ 
ditions and on certain soils, may be had 
from the use of sulphur as such or of 
substances containing sulphur. 
Do You Know How to Plow? 
Charles Dickens said “Whatever fash¬ 
ion is set in England, is sure to be hand¬ 
ed down.” One sees this exemplified in 
the styles of plowing in sections of this 
country. Many have, for ages, plowed 
furrows each year toward the fences. 
Such farms have earthworks, 4 ft. high, 
around each field, the center of the field 
impoverished. 
Others lay the field into 100-ft. plots, 
make a clean-cut furrow every 100 ft., 
also run idle at each end, tramping the 
ends hard, then finish with a clean-cut 
furrow each side of the field where they 
finished the headlands. This loses valu¬ 
able time and leaves poor streaks all over 
the field, which show in each crop. This 
appears to be the style most in use, and 
is decidedly the worst of all. 
Others have intelligence, and begin at 
the center of the field, plow all furrows 
toward the center, leave no tramped 
places, and no lean streaks across the 
field. Any farmer would be proud of 
such a finish. All would plow in this 
manner if they knew how to start, so as 
to come out right at the finish. It is sim¬ 
ple: But explanations may seem com¬ 
plicated. Most fields are longer one way 
than they are the other way. Count your 
steps across the field the short way ; now 
step back one-half as many steps. That 
gives the center the short way. Put a 
pole there. 
Go to long end of field ; start in the 
middle, and count as many steps toward 
the other long end as you took to -the 
middle in the short diameter of the field. 
Do the same at the other long end of the 
field. Put a pole at each spot thus des¬ 
ignated. That gives three poles in line. 
Start the plow at one end pole, plow +o 
the other end pole, turn and back a fur¬ 
row against the one just plowed. Plow 
across the ends each time. Continue un¬ 
til the field is finished. To illustrate, if 
the field is 100 ft. across in one direction 
and 400 ft. in another direction, you have 
50 ft. to center the short way. Put your 
pole in center, 50 ft. from the side of the 
field. Now go to long end of field, get 
to the middle. Step 50 ft. toward the 
other long end. Put up a pole; go to 
the. middle of the other long end, step 
again 50 ft. toward the other long end. 
put up another pole. Now begin to plow 
at one end pole, and plow to. the other end 
pole, keeping the poles in line as you go. 
Plow across the ends of the long furrows 
each time, and you will finish everywhere 
at once if you stepped carefully. j. G. 
Benevolent Old Lady: “And I sup¬ 
pose you are a widow, my poor woman?” 
Mrs. Slagg: “Worser nor that, mum. 1 
has to keep him.”—Edinburgh Scotsman. 
