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WHY WE SHOULD MIX FERTILIZERS AT HOME.
We Can Save the Buying of Potash, Which Our Soils Do Not
Need, and Can Mix the Fertilizers to Suit Individual Crops and
Soils—We Should Quit Buying Nitrogen.
t MAi vJUMMfciKUlam rertuizers
'j rightly used, pay on most of
J our Southern soils, no care
ful observer will deny. But that the
average farmer gets the best results
and the maximum returns from his
investment in such fertilizers, is very
doubtful. It is in the abuse, rather
than in the use, of comerclal fertil
izers that 90 per cent of our parm
ers err.
It has been commonly held that
our Boils are deficient in three es
sential elements of plant food, viz:
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash;
but the almost universal result of
experiment station tests throughout
the Gulf States has been to eliminate
potash as one of the needed elements.
This considerably simplifies the prob
lein or soli rertuity, leaving as it does
only nitrogen and phosphoric acid
to be supplied. Theoretically, every
farmer, through the medium of cow
peas, soy beans, peanuts, and clovers,
by returning his cottonseed or their
equivalent In meal or stable manure
to the land, and by keeping more live
stock, should keep his land abund
antly supplied with nitrogen. Much
"store bought" nitrogen at a quarter
of a dollar a pound soon figures heav
ily on the wrong side of the ledger.
Fortunately more and more of our
farmers are beginning to realize these
facts, and there is no question but
that more nitrogen-gathering crops
are being grown every year. This
is the real fertilizer problem of the
South—the nitrogen supply. When
every farmer has solved this problem
on his own farm, the rest—the sup
ply of phosphoric acid—will be cheap
and easy.
But for the immediate use of those
soils that have not been enriched by
leguminous crops or manures, some
nitrogen is absolutely necessary If
profitable crops are to be grown. This
brings us to the question of mixing
at home such ingredients as will best
meet our soil and crop requirements.
Practically every ton of factory
mixed commercial fertilizer contains
from S 1.50 to S2.00 worth of DOtash.
This Is worthless on our soils, but
when we buy this mixture we pay for
it, pay freight on it, and perhaps haul
it over several miles of bad roads.
To eliminate this potash bill; to
mix at a labor cost of from 50 to 75
cents per ton, the same or equally
as valuable constituents as those the
factories charge perhaps two or three
times as much for mixing; and to
proportion the elemnets in such a
way as to meet the requirements of
different soils and different crops, are
some of the things we acompllsh by
mixing our fertilizers at home.
High-grade meal, containing 6.18
per cent or more of nitrogen and
high-grade acid phosphate contain
ing 16 per cent or more of available
phosphoric acid, should be used. To
thoroughly mix these, only a tight
wagon bed or a large dry goods boj
and a spade and a hoe are necessary
Actual experience proves that this
can be done for a cost not exceeding
75 cents per ton, including the re
sacking. The proportions of meal and
acid must always be determined by
the soil and the crop to be grown,
remembering that nitrogen tends to
promote stalk growth in any crop,
while phosphoric acid promotes
fruitfulness and hastens maturity.
On the same class of soil, corn or any
grass crop will always reqtiire a
larger proportion of meal than cot
ton. On average thin Mississippi soil
unproved uircie
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about two parts acid to one of meal
will be about right for cotton; while
for corn on the same land about the
reverse, that is, two of meal to one
of acid, will not be far wrong. But
the previous crop growth, the nature
of the soil, and the crop to be fertil
ized must always be taken into con
sideration. Right here is one of the
strongest arguments in favor of the
home-mixed fertilizers; for it is man
ifestly impossible for a fertilizer
manufacturer to diagnose, except in
a general way, the needs of a soil
without having seen it.
In the light of our present knowl
edge we can safely say that we have
no need for potash in our fertilizers.
It is also certain that every farmer
should run his own nitrogen factory.
When this is done and we have quit
buying potash, the fertilizer problem
will be simple, indeed. But, if while
we are working on this problem we
have still some nitrogen to buy, let
us buy it unmixed and add to it
such a proportion of high-grade acid
phosphate as will meet the needs of
the soil and crops in question.
B. L. MOSS,
Cottonseed as a Fertilizer.
Please advise me as to tlie
best method to apply cottonseed
as fertilizer. I wish to use on
buckshot land for corn. How
to apply and quantity per acre.
A. F. O.
Bolivar Co., Miss.
Editorial Answer.—Unless your
farm is located a long distance from
a market for cottonseed, so that the
expense of hauling would be large,
it would seem that at present prices
of seed and meal, it would pay best
to sell the seed and buy meal. In
some sections seed are selling near
ly as high as meal, whereas for fer
tilizer purposes a ton of meal is
worth two tons of seed. A ton of
cottonseed contains about 60 pounds
of nitrogen, 24 pounds of potash and
26 pounds of phosphoric acid. At
20 cents a pound for nitrogen, and 5
cents a pound for potash and phos
phoric acid each, a ton of seed is
worth for fertilizer about $14.50.
Cottonseed do not form a properly
balanced fertilizer for most soils.
The per cent of nitrogen is too high
for the amount of phosphoric acid
they contain. It is possible that the
land in question does not need phos
phoric acid, but the strong probabil
ity is that it does.
It is generally recommended to
appiy 10 corn on average land about
equal quantities of cottonseed meal
and 16 per cent acid phosphate. If
400 pounds of such a mixture should
be used per acre, then It will require
413 pounds of cottonseed and 200
pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate
to give an equal amount of nitrogen
and phosphoric acid. This answers
the question as to the quantity of
cottonseed that should be used. On
average land probably 400 pounds to
the acre is as much as should be
used; but, of course. In some cases
more may be found profitable.
When cottonseed are used for fer
tilizer many prefer to compost them
so as to kill their germination. In
such case, for every ton of cotton
seed used there should be mixed
about 1,000 pounds of 16 per cent
acid phosphate, and for every ton of
stable manure about 250 pounds ad
ditional acid phosphate should be
mixed with it. Others, again, prefer
to kill the seed by wetting them
down in heaps and allowing them to
heat sufficiently to kill germination.
When seed and acid phosphate are
used instead of meal and acid phos
phate, they may be applied in the
drill and bedded on in the usual way.