The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 April 1958 — Page 4

Expert Discusses Farm Fertilizers

On* problem th ;* ' ! ' aj~.me on farms thi' Vs Uie fertilizer pr farmers reduce the r f 7, r bills ? Can farmer 1 u;-> « 1 1

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By Jimmy HatloJ

nad sawdust successfulhr as fer-tPurdu** Unitersitv a^onomist | prices for fertilizer materials), tibzer? What value do these prc«- when cobs, sawdust or shavir.g a ton of manure produced di/ r ts ha\e on soil improvement? are dry they w.U absorb about ivith cobs or sawdust does not Cobs, sawdust and shaving's all f OUr tunes their weight in liquid make as large an increase the h- 'e considerable advantages manure when used as bedling. A first year in crop production, a ' r stTaw 85 bedding, but when ton of this miten I w 1 ab- >rfc ; loes straw, but the residual efroir. s to the comparison to about 75 poun i,f n •. og^n and 1 r ect is usually larger. The mic:f rtilizers it becomes a different about 75 pounds of pot . h from roorganisms that decompose thr -tory- cow manure and will be worth i sawdust tie up a large portion According to Helmut Kohnke, about $15 (figuring the market of the nitrogen. Later. when

these microorganisms die and decompose. the nitrogen in their bodies returns to an available form suitable for plant growth. The long time effect on soil 1 fertility by using these materials s usually beneficial. The time needed before this effect is realized is shortened if the materials 1 are allowed to decompose first. If the materials were decomposed before used as bedding there would be little benefit from using the materials in the first place. However, when these materials are used as bedding they will abi sorb enough manure to aid ir their decomposition. The bedding w.U not tie-up much soil nitroger the material that aids in the br.->ak-down of the particles. When these bedding materials have been spread on the field there will be little depressing effect on the crops, because the ! time required for decomposition will be less. These materials will 1 •’compose faster if there is some commercial nitrogen applied at , the same time. Any depressing effect that the application of cobs may have no crops will be

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whether to expand or cm- J at Purdue is one of the 48 office l crop acreage and livestock in the United States,

numbers, or whether to sell a Volunteer reporters in Indiana ! p at huvest time or store for send the reports to the agrrul- .. er sale. tural statistics department at

The reports make it possible Purdue which in turn compilefarmers to know the crop and and publishes official estim.ue

THE DAILY MNNW !>.. APRIL 9. I958. Paf* 4 GKEKNTASTLE. IND.

By I nil«-«I rr*-»H Snow, heavy rains —d c orce winds in .the Midvv. t ■ • • ightly sandwiched in i • wo broad sunny areas i > i 1 he Atlantic and Pacific coasts. An active low pressure he southern Plains t o snowfalls in the Fa ait ng eastward to N b; i>k '.even inches of new snow w : .’eported at one poinu 1 u ■- south .winds up to 71 m ' s ; . hour whipped th t Pi

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The U. S.Weather Bun u 1 - oorted that heavy i n- 1 • central Oklahoma and n h nnl Texas durir: :h Many point s ret >f rain or more. Earlier in tlu gan Tuesday, severe t.’i i rtorm and pos ; l; 1 ;o. ngs had been i mod f •entral Texas. Lives, k -w-. n the nort h central 1 >een warne! and cold rain. Although thei ' h id i> i sonlight showers in ; t P.:c m, N’orthwest, ion it was pleasantly < lurries we trip from the low a- G I. ke nto New En.;; iable amounts fell. Today’s forecast si. >\ i -ang skies in the .V ; 1>- ogt (ringing a fair wcith picture vef^t of the Cont : v c ■Snow mixed wiih ? in c ‘io Tem the Rockies and ex■'•ected to sprea I th.i - r : < Great Lakes region i I < - Valley by nightfall. Snow flui gradually diminished, to a generally cle;”- - tern along the Atlantic board. | REDUCE BIRD t : : ' : NEW YORK (Ul’i j con on top of the Em;' • Building will be t.nr. Monday to k from being confuse ! k e An lu bon Society management had agi. I t > d suggestion tot urn ot because whe 1 birds crash into the luuMin

Crop Data Secured By Various Means

. v. -totk situation in tlie stats and nation as well as in their

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Crop and livesloCK reporting is rvice rendered to farmers ind thers in Indiana by the United -c it r -s Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the \g icultural Experiment Station at Purdue University. Indiana's crop and livestock

of crop and livestock product n, prices received and paid by farm ers and various other special ic ports. A list of the n ore impo ta reports issued monthly, quaiwc k or annually include crops (in: m tion to plant, general crop rep annual crop summary, grain stocks—on farms and off farm- 1 livestock (livestock on fai

.1 1. tattle on feed, pig crops, lives x k slaughter); dairy (cows milked and milk production): poultiy (egg production, commercial hatchery report, broiler • hick placements); price (prices ei cived by farmers paid by farmers for feed and other items t: and weekly weather crop reports. * These reports ire tree ami msy o" obtained by writing the agnultural statistician. Experiment 1 ion Annex, Purdue Univendy. Lifayctte.

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