Excerpt from Potash Pays: Practical Suggestions to Farmers Showing How to Use Fertilizers With Profit
American farmers and fruit growers are rightly regarded as the most intelligent, enterprising, and prosperous of their class. Our farmers make a success of their business, because they are up-to-date and ever ready and quick to adopt the latest improvements and the newest methods. They take advantage of the teachings of science, and make practical use of recent discoveries, whereby they increase the fertility of their lands and gather large and profitable crops.
It is no wonder, then, that our farmers in California and other States now pay so much attention to the important subject of supplying plant food to their different lands. They not only know, but they have found out that it is necessary to put back into the soil those substances which have been taken out year after year by their crops. Science has shown that potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen are continually used up from the soil by growing crops. Unless these substances are returned in the form of fertilizers, the farmer"s lands will surely and steadily lose their productiveness, and sooner or later his yields of grains, or fruits, or vegetables, as the case may be, will become less and less.
No matter how rich the soil may be, the result is the same, when crop after crop is gathered from the same land. And so when a farmer is asked: "Why do you fertilize your land?" He at once replies "To feed my crops."
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