Thursday, March 11, i 90S.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
17
Disgrace for Cotton Lands to We
Out. -
When the Seed or Their Equivalent are Returned to the Soil,
Ootton is the Least Exhaustive Crop That Men Grow Wheat
19 Timers as Exhaustive and Corn 30 Times.
BE
HERE is no excuse under
heaven for cotton lands
"wearing out." Wth proper
; rotation, cover crops on the land in
winter, and barnyard manures? ap
1 .piled to the land together with suffi-
:r.ienr. fertilizer tn Riinnlv rh lncr-
dients lacking in the land, our cot
ton fields would grow richer and
I richer each succeeding year. Accord
ing to the best statistics, the average
I cotton crop of 190 pounds of j lint
t draws from the soil 40 pounds of
i nitrogen, 16 pounds of phosphorus,
? and 25 pounds of potassium. But
stems, ropts, leaves, jpd bolls are re
turned to the soil, and are therefore
not really taken from the land at all.
Lint and seed' are taken away land
are removed from the land Now
what draft is made on the soil?! Let
us see, and at the same time com
pare with corn and wheat on the
basis of the average yield of each
crop per acre in the United States.
We have the following facts:
i
Crops. Nltro. Phos. Potas.
.. i
Cotton:
190 lbs. lint ... .65 .19 .87
4Hlbs.seed. 12-92 5-26 4-84
Total.. 13.57 6.45 5.71
Cokn: !
29.4 bu. grain. 32.14 12.36 7.06
4,000 lbs. Btov'r 41.61 11.60 56-00
Total.. 73.74 23-96 63-06
Wheat
13.95 bu, grain 19-75 7.44 5-1
2.300 lbs. straw 13-57 2-76 11.73
Total.. 33-32 10-20 16-83
Totals.
24.73
160.71
60.35
This table shows several interest-
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lng things. The most striking fact
brought to our attention is this:
Of the three great staple crops of
America, cotton is by far the least
exhaustive.
Wheat requires more than twice
and corn nearly seven times as much
plant food as does cotton, j
Nor is this all. We will suppose
that cotton seed, corn stover and
wheat straw are used on the farm,
and in the end find their way back
to the soil. The plant food j they con
tain will be returned to i the land
from whence it was taken.! We will
now find a still greater difference in
reference to the demands on the; soil
made by each crop,, as is shown in
the table below, and more clearly
indicated by the diagram: I
Crop.
190 lbs.- lint .
29.4 bu. corn
13.96 bu. wheat
Nltro.
.65
32-14
19-75
Phos.
.19
12-36
7-44
Potas.
.87
7.06
6-10
Total,
1.71
51 56
32.29
In respect then to the amounts of
nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium
required for average acre yields of
cotton, wheat and corn in the United
States, wheat calls for 10? times as
much of these elements as cotton,
and corn calls for 30 times as much
as cotton. j
The greatest demand on the; soil
by the cotton plant is for seed 'pro
duction. For the average yield,
13 pounds of nitrogen, 5 pounds of
phosphorus, and 6 pounds .of potas
sium are used.If we apply to the soil
manure or fertilizer containing f the
same fertilizing value as the seed,
cotton becomes at once the! least ex
haustive crop that men grow. But
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