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   Iowa State Register and Farmer (Newspaper) - November 8, 1907, Des Moines, Iowa                               NOVEMBER 8 1907 NO HOW SOIL BECOMES POOR The fact that soil becomes poor and to produce crops is only too well known But how this loss of fertility occurs not so will known and to tell how jr poor is not easily exhausted and to replace are water and nitrogen and as are to a certain extent pendent on each oilier a soil lacking in one is liable be in both In desert and arid lands moisture The oases of deserts are face h'uil as film moisture which j vidos growing plants with a constant j supply The more free water the soil the greater the store for ing plants but free water dues net mean surplus water which cannot HAY CORN FODDER so easy to plain Growing plains aro very iav about their food Rather than being put off almost anything they will refuse to grow or at least not give yields if improperly fed A number of ent compounds are required by ing- plains These must be supplied in certain combi- nations the plant will have none of them If the soil fails to supply the plant with any one of the required food constituents it will starve or if the food Ix supplied in a form not to the plant it will take it For in- stance a soil 120 nitro- gen even it contains plant cannot STOW crops A soil that con- tains only gon combined in organic matter and provided with moans of ing nitrates will be as barren as a desert Fertile soils are soils that supply all kinds of plant foods and supply them in the form most acceptable to the plants When the supply of any one or more of plant foods be- GOTTEN OVER BEING AFRAID v ly L V OLD DOBBIN AND DOLLY HAVE GOTTEN TO SEEING THEM NEVER EVEN NOTICE ANY MORE the soil is called pow on account of their supply of or or run down which I water Other land was means that it cannot grow plants The j with forests now produce plant food in any soil is crops Some soils have a scant rarely It is an easy matter supply of rainfall and others have by improper methods of cultivation to but cannot use it or hold one or the different for use Much rain water Jn deep to renew them is not so j is held as free or ground water ite Uvo plant i From the deep soil it rises to the Advancing the theory that we are all seeking the most profit on priced land it is natural to measure away as in undrained low and j the advantages of feeding hay as against corn der if any speaking but few farmers will y i e w this without for few of them can afford to de- vote land to ing hay to he fed on the farm ami fewer can afford to raise it to sell when fertility is considered We are living in an age but little bor is performed and fodder is now cut and put up with as little baud labor as possible If fed waste is very large whereas if shredded the waste is cant Pound for stover becomes for most feeding purposes Quite a tory substitute timothy hay This is based on the theory that the stover is prepared for feeding by cutting or ding Of course for market purposes corn Is not to be compared with hay So far it has not become a commercial icle when il- ed and baled if the idea of making corn fodder a com- plete substitute for hay means the abandonment t clover growing then there is element of doubt In the THE ROAD THAT THEY tion and by the rains running off fore percolating the soil In that soils may contain nitro- gen they must contain a supply of moisture As cultivated lands are robbed of their moisture becoming hard and dry they are the same time being robbed of their tion In a nutritive way shredded der is not a substitute for clover hay nor is it wise pursue a policy that contemplates the abandonment -ol growing clover in a rotation for the sake of the land Oar conclusion then is that com stover should be made a regular feed to be fed live stock on Iowa farms   

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