Doubling the Product.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 101, 9 October 1908, Page 3

Doubling the Product.

He who brings forth two blades of grass where but one grew before performs a graater service for humanity than he who builds a city. There is nothing new in this thought, for it has often been stated in similar words, but it will serve as a text in this as well as in the original form. Causing two blades of grass to grow instead of one is doubling the product, and if that can be done by the intelligent application to the soil of the fertiliser which the grass needs for its higher development, by a similar process all plants can be made to double their product, not only of leaves, but of seed and fruit, with but little more labour and expensj than their mere cultivation without the use of fertilisers. To double the production of grain and grass renders easy the doubling of the output of live stock and poultry, and also, by increasing the yield, the quality of the product is greatly improved and the land is benefitted by the unused fertilising ingredients, left over, as it were, and drawn from the atmosphere, and stand in the roots of the dead plants to be converted by freezing and abundant moisture of winter into plant food of the highest value. The man who attempts to farm without an intimate knowledge of the soil he works, without knowing its natural fertilising constituents, and just what to apply to make it produce the largest amount of the best quality of each kind of crop he plants, is not only working aimlessly in the dark, but is engaged in a game of guessing—a lottery in which there are no prizes greater in value than the amount of his investment.