American Fertilizer Volume 56 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...has been associated with fertilizer interests for many years, and has many friends in the trade who will wish him success in his m w enter BUILDING UP MISSOURI SOILS By II. R. Smaixey, Agronomist of the Soil Improvement Committee of the X. P. A., in the Missouri Ruraltst, April. 1922. note.--Since the founding of the experiment station at Columbia years ago, there has been a continuous effort made to find out all about the peculiarities of Missouri soils, the crops best adapted to them, and what these soils have lacked or are lacking to make them profitably productive. Not, however, until recently, has all this material been gathered into one series of stories, even though results have been published from time to time since work first began. The author of these stories is a farm-reared man, farmer in fact and for a number of years county agent in one of Indiana's best counties. Knowing his subject thoroughly, and having access to the records of work at the station, he has written this first full account of our experimental work to date. Follow these stories through to the end, for they will not only give you a bit of agricultural history, but "put you next" to one of the greatest items of agricultural service Missouri can boast. Did you ever catch a fellow boring holes in your "west forty" sometime between April and November? And when you out and asked him if he thought he'd strike oil, he explained that he was making a soil survey of the county? His explanation was brief, however, for he had to hurry to get over the entire county before the winter set in. Or maybe your soil never has been surveyed, but it will be sooner or later. Anyway my purpose at the start of these stories is to show how the soil survey is carried on; how important ...