The Clinton News Record, 1923-4-12, Page 6UNAVOIDABLE' LOSSES.
How Farm Land 'Deteriorates in
Necessary Mineral Supp',ies.
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IIM CLINTON"NEWS-RECCIRD
nave 'tong oeen neayr{'Y"c J 31bR, Ju
price when sent to inarket>"and the
same condition prevails with hogs
and/cattle. It doesnot pay, any meat
producer to market more Weight than
What Ono Steer Takes Prom the
Lauri - Some Don't Like t
]Believe It—these Losses Must Be
Replaced --3 eat Trade Balks at
Heavy Weights.
(Contributed by .Ontnrio Department off"
Ae'rleuiture, Toronto.).
With the exception of nitrogen our
agricultural investigators have failed
to find any means;. by whjoh they
could add to nature's,supply of Plant
food in the soil exoept by transfer;,
of minerals rich in fertilizing Proper-
ties from rich 'deposits to the cul-
tivated areas. Cultivated lands will
gradually lose,thefr mineral elements,
Particularly phosphorous and potash,
through crop production. The: return
of all manure. 'made, from the crops
produced delays the day of exhaus-
tion, but exhaustion will eventually
come more quickly by some prac-
tices than others it is true, . and the
man, that follows live stock farming
while not returning all. to the soil
;can greatly delay the day of ,reduced
fertility and short crone.
'&Wbat Oue Steer,' Wakes j2rom the
Every time a.1;000 --pound fat steer
is sent .to market 16.61 pounds of
phosphorous pent oxide, 1.76 Pounds
of, potash, and.17.92 pounds of cal-
cium goes with him: A• one :hundred
acre farm sending twenty 1,000 -
pound, steers to market each year is
sending incorporated in their bodies,
•principally in the bones, 35.20 pounds
of potash, 258,40, pounds of. lime,
810;20 pounds of phosphorous. <If
the farm did this continuously for
one hundred years—some of our On-
tario farm lands have been farmed
that Yong—the .amount of fertilizing
elements subtracted frorathe original
stock in the soil is such as to greatly
` limit crop production. If the crops:.
from which the steers had been made
had been sold off the land the ter-
tilising elements or stock of plant
food in the soil would have given out
• many years sooner.
117any. i+arnfotts Don't 'Like to Be -
Here It. r
Many of our farmers do not like t'o
thinkthat the fertility of their lands
is running do2gn, and will argue
:against their ',own conscience, and
finally develop a state of mind which
prevents them from returning to the
soli sufficient mineral elements to
maintain the necessary Balance in
soil fertility that insures crop yields
equal to the yields, characteristic to
virgin .soils. On certain good farms
in southern Ontario with which I am
familiar I estimate that the mineral
fertility raining, during the " past
seventy-five years has,`under the gen'.
erally accepted •good management,
been approximately as follows per
acre: Phosphorous. removed, 459
pounds; potassium removed,' 2,491,
pounds; Calcium removed, 1,069
potinda;., of these quantities probably
fifty per cent. was returned ,in the.
manures through periodical aPpliea
tions. • The unretnrned aggregate
244.5 pounds of phosphorous, 1,245.5
pounds of .potassium and 629.5
pounds of calcium represents approx-
imately what each acre of farm land
has lost. Is It any' wonder, then; that
the crop yields have been greatly re-
duced In many of the older sections
'of the Province?
These Losses Must Be *placed.
To bring the' old Soils back to
Intotimum production one of the
things we must do is to. replace in
grlantity, to satisfy crop; delnhniis, the
potash, phosphorous and lime. These
elements are essential, and must be
present In;available condition and iii+
;quantity. The best fanned soils Will
gradually lose fertility 11 something
is not done toward the rePlaciug of
the mineral.,`;' elements. removed in .
Props and sold off the farm either
. asgrain, beef or mills: L, Stevenson,
Toronto.
*at Trade Balks at. heavy Weights.
"The day of the heavy weight has
passed,,' says I). F. Ferrite 02 the ani-
mal husbandry divisions of the Uni-
ver0ity of Minnesota in referr=ing co
conditions and demands of the meat
ttdde. "Light weights are' easily dis-
pelled .ot,
is-pelled:of, White heavy, carcasses are
bardte... movie. Overweight 12.333b9,
fairly well fattened couditon. Only
about 15 per eeutof the market de-
rnand' is for steers weighing more
than 1,300 pounds, And to Sell, Well
these must he good to choice' beeves.
offered during ,the holiday: season:
Yearlings weighing 900 to • 1,100
pounds, often termed baby beef,: aro
the desired kind, and more recently
650 to 800• pound weights are in
strong demand,
"A three dollar spread between'
Prices for botcher hogs and smooth
heavy sows frequently prevailed on
the South St. Paul market last sum-
mer. No one can 'escape :the verdict
that lard is unwanted,in these days
of common use of vegetable oils and
compounds,
"Of course•a reasonable degree of
finish is necessary•to make,any ear-.
cass of meat tender and juicy. Thin
animals, no matter how welt bred,
make unpalatable tough meat. But
it is a mistake to market nowadays
an o'erl'at or heavy meat animal, be-
cause the consuming public does not.
want that kind of goods .
TFIT1i2SDAjI APX11:,i ti'a; 1#20,,
Mr. Edward' Moyle and bis• motiles'
of Perth, Australia, arrived . in Ex-,
eter resentl'y and the latter will re-
side with her daughter, Mrs. ]Tarry
,Jennings of that town. They had been
spending the winter in California,
On the last day of Marchithe home
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Davidson of
the boundary line, near Walton, was
destroyed by fire with lunch of its
contents,
,Sq' little use has Huron county fes'
a. gaol 'that there is a. strong° Veg.
deney to close Castle Griffin at Goa.:'
ericb and transfer the one or two
prisoners in it to Stratford. Huron
officials think it would be ninth.
cheaper to pay for gaol accommoda-
tion somewhere else than to main-
tain a gaol for the few prisoners
we have in the county yearly;.'
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the Western University 'Summer School beginning
July 2nd,
' );' or information. apply
Dr. R.P.R. Neville, Registrar, Loudon, Ont. 16
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