Title: Illinois Agricultural Association record (microform)
Identifier: 5060538.1931-1934
Year: 1931- December 1934 January 1931- December 1934 (Jan0s)
Authors: Illinois Agricultural Association; Illinois Agricultural Association. Record
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Mendota, Ill. : The Association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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■. Il ■i-. ;v 1 ■'■•.v>~/-. i' \ Alfalfa Seed For July Sowing Plentiful There IS plenty of alfalfa seed for summer planting at reasonable prices but Sudan grass seed is scarce and high priced, according to Paul V. Kelly, manager of the seed division of the Farmers National Grain Corpora- tion. Mr. Kelly states that Kansas, Ne- braska, Utah and Michigan alfalfa seed is plentiful and no higher in price than a year ago. Montana seed is about all gone and Dakota 12 al- falfa, a popular variety, is non-exist- ent this year because of the drouth in the Dakotas a year ago. The outlook for clover, timothy, blue grass and production of other seeds this year is not so good because of the severe drouth throughout the country early this season. Mr. Kelly reports a heavy demand for sudan grass seed because so much of the early seeding of clover killed out through lack of moisture. The Farmers National is in a posi- tion to supply farmers* elevators. Farm Bureaus and other co-operatives with high-quality seeds in carload or L. C. L. lots. The seed division located in the Fisher Bldg., Chicago, is oper- ated strictly as a co-operative with provision for patronage dividends to stockholder members. .j - ; v - - Recovery ^ !^(Continued from page 15) '.*.•>■. hoarding for all people, and food, leisure, clothing, homes, jobs and hap- ' piness for all who come with fair >: minds and willing hearts into our ' land, should be a not impossible goal V in this land of plenty. True, it is a jig- saw puzzle that takes brains to fit to- gether, but the parts are all there. Science, experts, constitutional law- yers with a desire to interpret for i the masses, students of sociology, eco- nomics and some mighty good sales sense to get the whole program ac- cepted, can work out this jig-saw puz- zle, but it may take more days than just the few you are willing to wait. . But, laugh with the echoing laugh- ter of the much beset President Roose- velt. It is better than the despondency or hopelessness of the subsidized or the prejudiced, or the Tory press would have you adopt as they criti- cize, but offer no alternative. Truly our country is improving daily. We are thinking, and that is progress. The proportion which the aggrregrate of the •ther classes of citizens bears in anj state to that of its husbandmen, is. r^neraUy ipeakinr, : the proportion of its unsound to ita healthy /: parts, and is a good enoagh barometer whereby ' to measure its degree of eormption.—Thomas "' Jefferson. :"■ ■ ••■•• •:.■,':•. ^i; ■ ■ •■-.•:: ^•.•'•v'^'. •-: ••■ *•"'■ ■
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The seeder type spreader shown above is most satisfactory for spreading ground rock phosphate and agricultural limestone. Picture shows Minott Silliman of Stark county spreading phosphate. •; Phosphorus Is Key To Permanent Farming '■)'/•■ .':y. ' Phosphorus, purchased most cheaply in the form of ground rock phosphate, was characterized by Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins, the great soil expert, as the key to permanent agriculture on the most common soils of the United States. „ To maintain or increase the amount of phosphorus in the soil makes pos- sible the growth of clovers and al- falfa and the consequent addition of nitrogen from the inexhaustible sup- ply in the air. v- '^^ ^ T^ And with the addition of decaying organic matter to the soil, potassium, magnesium and other elements are liberated so they can be assimilated by growing plants. . ... • , <;, v.v. ? fi;,;: Poverty Only Future ; ^ 'vV: - If the supply of phosphorus in the soil is steadily decreased, without re- plenishment, poverty is the only future for the people who till the common agricultural lands of the United States. ■-. • ;•■:.:; : ^ . .-■■:, .:.::■.,: ■:. " On most Illinois soils applications of 1,000 to 2,000 pounds of ground rock phosphate per acre are recom- mended. Since rock phosphate also contains calcium, soils not too high in acidity will usually grow sweet clover and alfalfa with the sole addition of this fertilizer. ^ The most practicable way of spread- ing rock phosphate or limestone on the land is to use a seeder type spreader which can be regulated to spread any desired amount per acre. For this type of spreader the material must be dry to flow readily. . , . : Where manure is to be spread, rock phosphate may well be spread with it. The phosphate may be sprinkled over the manure from day to day as it is being made in the stall or covered feeding shed. The spreader may be partly loaded and the phosphate sprinkled on sufficient for the load. If manure sprinkled with phosphate is al-^ lowed to leach before being spread on the land there is danger of some of the phosphate leaching also, whereas if the fertilizer is spread on the land imr ediately after being taken from the car where manure has been or will be applied, the phosphate can later be plowed under with the manure with no danger of logs. .. '• Members of the 1. A. A. may pur- chase rock phosphate of guaranteed quality and fineness of grinding at a special discount of 50c per ton from the I, A. A. contract companies, Ruhm Phosphate and Chemical Co., Chicago, and Midwest Farm Supply Co., Joliet. The delivered price varies from around $11 to $13 per ton depending on per-^ centage of phosphorus, determined by individual carload tests, and on the freight rate from the mines in Ten•^ 1M Ask Freight Cut On ij Ground Rock Phosphate G. W. Baxter of the I. A. A. trans- portation division, recently appeared before railroad representatives urging that freight rates from Tennessee to Illinois farms on rock phosphate be cut at least 50 per cent. The rate from Tennessee to Chicago via freight was recently reduced from $4.50 to $3.38 per net ton to compete with cheap water rates on phosphate from Florida via the Atlantic Ocean, Erie Canal and Great Lakes. The I. A. A. believes there would be much wider use of ground rock phosphate if freight rates were lower, V■-^^:v•^V:■V■ /?;-:.'■;'■ i. A. A. RECORD ■A'- ' I '*. • * •.•■.' •■ .'■•*.

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