EXTENSION
NEWS
TEST TTH SOIL
Soil is the first essential in agriculture
It is the nest inportent part of a farmer'
rorking capital. If a soil is too acid or
too alkaline, crops rill not grow noimally
™ the soil lacks any one of the necessary
ant. food elements the crop can never
kc a maximum yield. A soil test is a
simple means of determining the approxinati
amounts of the principal plant food ele
ments t'T.t arc in'the soil. It is crop
insurance and therefore good business.
Smls, like machinery, roar out and tho
dcficior.t parts must be replaced if tho
soil is’to perform at its best in crop pro
duct ion. A shortage .of one plant food ele
ment may loror the crop yield as much as
50/S. Tost the soil; add the elements that
are deficient; give the’soil an opportunit;
to yield at its maximum.
NITROGEN PHOSPHORUS'AND POTASSIUM
—THEIR FUNCTION IN PLANT DEVELOPMENT
Nitrogen: (1) Stimulates'plant growth. (2)Ar.
essential constituent of proteins. (3)
Used abundantly in green parts of plants.
(4) An'excess causes rapid,-"soft grouth of
plants. (5)Delays floworing, fruiting and
ripening. (6) Excellent for quick-growing
leafy crops* . _
Phosphorus: (l)Foufid abundantly in‘protein:
(2)Assential part of buds, flowers,seeds
and '••rawing tips. (3) Assists in seed ger
mination and root formation. (4)Hastens -
plant development and food storage.
')Speeds up flowering, seed formation,and
turity. (6)Aids in retaining nitrogen anc
-mures. (7)Apply' on- graips, legunes, vege
tables, arid roof crops.,.
Potassium:(1) Assists in formation and
transportation of- starches, sugars and
other carbohydrates in plants. (2)Froduces
pl’’mp cells and stiff stalks in plants.
3) Promotes plant health and disease re— _
sistanco. (4) An excess in soil produces
weak, watery plants and causes late matur
ity. (5) Apply on root crops to induce
food storage-qualities and hardening.
Organic matter composed of carbon,hydrogen,
nitrogen, and ogyxon constitutes 95# ol
all plant tissue, -'her. plants arc burned
these elements pass off as gases. The ash
remaining is compripod off so(da, iron,sul
phur , phosphorus, pocassiun,lea 1 fciuip, and
silicon. Corf, on* page 5 ! ", ■
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