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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1948
Page
3
Farmers are urged to combine fertilizer with good soil management. The Middle West Soil Improvement committee says fertilizer alone cannot replace practices that improve soil structure. Regular rotations with legumes and grasses build a thick layer of healthy soil to support root growth and crop yields.
Opinion argues for European economic and political integration to complement the Marshall Plan. It urges conditioning continued aid on progress toward a United States of Europe and cites Dewey and European leaders advocating union to prevent postwar dependency on American finance.
The text notes adding organic matter improves soil air space and water retention. It warns that weak legume stands won't build structure without phosphate and potash from fertilizer. Thick stands alone aren’t enough as crops must also be turned back into the soil, not just cut for hay or grazing.
A study reports Bossy spends seven and a half hours daily grazing with 60 percent by day and 40 percent at night. She eats five hours daily at 50 to 70 bites per minute, chews cud seven hours, lies down for 12 hours in nine sessions, travels 2.5 miles by day and 1.5 miles by night, and drinks ten times daily.
The department of agriculture estimates erosion has ruined or damaged about 100 million acres of good cropland and threatens another 100 million acres. Of roughly 460 million acres of good cropland in the United States, about 7 percent need protection or improvement to prevent erosion.
Farmers are urged to plant windbreaks around farm buildings to improve appearance conserve fuel and protect buildings and livestock. Besides the main north and west windbreaks many also plant garden windbreaks on the south and west of the garden.
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