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VOL. LXVIII INDIANAPOLIS, JULY NO. 27 ,<sV Sources of Loss on the /Average Indiana Fann lsl Premium.—The question before us this week is certainly one of great importance. To my mind, the waste of manure causes more loss to the farmer than any other thing. Many farmers get in a hurry to get their crops out and permit the manure to remain in the yard until it is rendered almost worthless by the rain and by evaporation. Then too. It furnishes a breeding place for flies, and that will cause more waste en the farm. Allowing wagons and farm implements to remain out in the weather without sufficient protection, is another source of waste on the fa.m. "Wagons and implements that would otherwise have lasted for years will need to be repaired and possibly replaced entirely by new ones. A generous use 'st the pair.t Drush and pail will prevent another great loss on tba farm. If a mat of paint is applied occasionally, as needed, to homes and barns they will last about twice as long and will look infinitely better. Then think of how many thousands of dollars are spent annually for tire setting on vehicles when with a little care and paint this expense could have been avoided. Making Good Vse of Idle Land. I believe I am safe in saying that there is enough land lying idle In Indiana to more than pay the taxes of each farmer ln the state, lf lt were properly cultivated. Not only would this land look better and pay better, if taken care of, but lt would be prevented from being an actual loss to the farmer and his neighbors, for a vacant field is the breeding place of all kinds of noxious weeds, which, if left to themselves will seed the country for miles around. Allowing the farm to go unfenced, keeping no stock, not allowing a tenant to keep any surplus stock, and burning the straw on the farm, are practices followed by some landlords, which will end in loss to owner and tenant both. Kosciusko Co. Q. B. How to Prevent W.aste Suggested In Experience Department in the same light. Commercial fertilizer is sometimes bought and applied largely without a proper knowledge of its elements or ratio of plant food, The element of plant food taken from the atmosphere by the clover plant is practically all nitrogen; and the soil toi which this may be applied may already give this question of a balance ration for his plants careful study in an experimental way. The husbanding of the resources of the farm has long been a question of large discussion and consideration by the foremost agriculturalists of tho country, but the husbanding or conserving of the elements of plant food, has not had its relative or comparative con- sideration. Ready for a Day In the Wheat Field. which may be entirely out of balance for the demand of both the crops and soils for which lt is used; likewise the legumes and domestic manure used for fertilizer may be found by practical experiment to have from one-third to one- half of its money value wasted by an improper balance. contain enough nitrogen. In this event unless balanced up by a proper ratio of phosphoric acid and potash It will be largely wasted. When this happens the loss may be from thirty to fifty per cent of its cash value. This great waste continues from year to year, but it could be .saved if the farmer would Furnish Balanced Supply of Plant Food. 2d Premium.—"What do you consider is the greatest waste on the average Indiana farm and what sort of a plan would you recommend to correct it?" We answer: The failure to fully conserve the plant food elements that are applied to the soils of the average farm, consists in its greatest waste. This waste consists in the failure to apply to the soils the clover crop or other crops of the legume family, barnyard manures and commercial fertilizers, in a balanced form; that is to say, the practice of plowing under the legumes is often considered as a complete fertilizer; and the application of the ordinary domestic manures is regarded A Threshing Scene in Morgan County. This wheat made 30 bushels per acre. Conserve Plant Food Elements. We believe that the conservation or saving of the plant fo«d elements when applying them to the soil, Is paramount to soil conservation. For if plant food Is not conserved by proper balance, the soil cannot be properly maintained, nor made to be most remunerative. The failure of a farmer to get acquainted with his soils and the elements of plant food that is needed to balance their demand, may lose him money every year. There is but one way that a check can be put upon this large waste and that is by every farmer getting "next" to his soil and making his farm an experimental field, or in other words, asking the soil in an intelligent way what it wants, and true to nature it will promptly respond. If this is done this waste of plant food elements can be quickly turned into a saving. Get next to Purdue—keep in close touch with Farmers' Institutes —demand more practical demonstrations as tests for the needs of plants on your own farm. A farm that is despised for lack of proper credit will then blossom like the rose, and the boy will stay on the farm and the daughter too, and father and mother will be happy. L. W. Hubbell. Pulaski Co. Build Barns for the Hay Crop. 3d Premium.—Both experience and observation have led me to the conclusion that of all things which are wasted annually on Indiana farms, that lost in our hay and grain crops is of most importance. Most farmers could greatly help their financial conditions by having their farms so equipped so that they could store their hay crops in barns at cutting time instead of stacking it out in the open where under the most favorable conditions there is a great loss, and where when conditions are otherwise the loss is even greater. It is a well known fact that fields of eorn contain much valuable foodstuffs besides that found in the ears, and yet it is astonishing the number of farmers who raise corn year after year and think nothing at all of saving the other material and feeding It to stock. By the use of the silo one can save the en- Continued on page 9.
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1913, v. 68, no. 27 (July 5) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA6827 |
Date of Original | 1913 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or not-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Date Digitized | 2011-04-18 |
Digitization Information | Original scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
Description
Title | Page 1 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Orignal scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
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VOL. LXVIII
INDIANAPOLIS, JULY
NO. 27
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