Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1916 — NFARLY AS MUCH THE SECOND SEASON. [ARTICLE]

NFARLY AS MUCH THE SECOND SEASON.

“The increase in yields of the crops following-the one to which fertilizer is applied is often nearly as much as that secured in the crop fertilizer. In one experiment at the Ohio Station when fertilizer was used on wheat, it caused an increase in yield of the other four crops in rotation, of 86 per cent of that secured wheat crop,” says J. F. Hudson, a well-known farm writer. “Fertilizers applied to the corn crop vVili not he entirely used up and will benefit the crops following especially when, applied broadcast or drilled in evenly where the field is in sod.