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Identifier: soilculturemoder00taylrich (find matches)
Title: Soil culture and modern farm methods
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Taylor, Warren E. 1854- Deere & Co., Moline, Ill
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Moline, Ill
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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are found in abundance in the deeper subsoil, far below thereach of the plow and are made available through the action of humusresulting from the decayed roots. Plant food compounds thus formedin the deep subsoils are brought to the seed-bed by capillary attraction,as every farmer knows who has grown clover and other deep-rootingplants in rotation with corn and small grain. A Reasonable Conclusion In view of our resources and the potential inventiveness of man, is itnot reasonable to suppose that when the Creator planned this planet.He, in some way, made provision to sustain the living world until theend of time and that in the evolution of events, as necessity demands,the man will be found to unfold the means and methods? We know oxygen has existed for an indefinite period, but it is onlyrecently that we have fully appreciated the fact that it was vital to theplant roots and devised means of placing it in the seed-bed. It has been only a few years since man discovered that clover and
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other legumes possessed the power to take nitrogen from the air and fixit in the soil. We have just learned that rains, after a dry spell, wash from theatmosphere with every gallon of water more than one-half grain ofammonia containing one-half grain of nitrogen, and deposit it in thesoil, provided the soil is in a good physical condition and containshumus. Other powerful forces exist in nature of which we know little. Theingenuity of man will, however, when necessity demands, devise meansand methods to utilize them which are as simple as the clover, alfalfa,cow peas, etc., are means to secure nitrogen from the atmosphere. Knowing, as we do, that life has been sustained for millions of yearsfrom the soil and other forces in nature, we are just optimistic enough tobelieve that if we will utilize scientifically such means and methods ashave been unfolded to us and will do our part to solve new problems, wewill not want. Preserving Manure Does it pay to preserve manure? Does it pay to ha

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