Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1873 — Roots as Manure. [ARTICLE]

Roots as Manure.

It has been found that the roots of a good crop of red clover left in an acre of land after the removal of the crop weigh six thousand five hundred and eighty pounds, or from three to three and a half tons. The same examination gave the weight of an aerd of rye roots at thirtyfive hundred pounds, and of wheat roots, at thirty four hundred pounds. All of this matter is of course valuable lor the use of such crops as may lie grown during or after its decomposition. The wellknown superiority of clover as a manuring crop, however, is not due alone to the greater amount of orginic matter taken mainly from the atmosphere, which its roots supply, hut also to the position in which this matter is deposited. The roots reach deeply into the soil, and their decomposition-they serve to draw moisture frony the lower soil,- and by the decomposition of fertilizing matter to a considerable deptli, they induce the descuat rir the roots of other crops to a point where the}' are much more sure of a supply of moisture during dry seasons than they could lie if nearer the surface. Then again, these deeply pcnetrating,roots traverse parts of the subsoil not heretofore open to vegetation, and in their decomposition they produce a chemical effect tin the inorganic substances that lie along their courses, and help to render them, too, serviceable for future crops.— American Agriculturist. —The Graphic speak* of Boston and ita Vicinity aa “the Hub and the sub-Hubs.” Bm, In another column, the advertisement headed “I mitt help any man."

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