Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1875 — Importance of Silex in the Soil. [ARTICLE]

Importance of Silex in the Soil.

Silica gives hardness and stiffness to the straw and leaves of cereal grain. When wheat or rye is sown where a brush-heap or pile of logs has been burned to ashes, the straw will be unusually stiff and the leaves much harsher than the other straw growing in the vicinity, but away from the area of the burning. The potash of the ashes and the silica found in the soil are taken up by the growing plants, and form a coating or liquid glass, which is spread evenly over the straw and leaves of the growing grain, as a metallic coat-of-arms was used in old times tti cover the body of a soldier. When the growing straw of wheat is inclosed in a thin tube of elastic glass, the innumerable spores, which frequently fill the entire atmosphere like flakes of snow, and which produce rust, do not find a congenial place for their lodgment and complete development. But when the plants do not have access to a generous supply of silica and potash, the stems are so limber that they are easily prostrated by driving storms, so that the ears of grain will he developed only in part. When silica is available only in small quantities, the pores from which fnngi spring adhere to the leaves and stems, where they find a suitable spot for their development, and thus the productiveness of the plant is seriously impaired. The practical value of silica is further perceived in the yield of excellent fruit. —Annual Record of Science and Industry.

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