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A balanced diet of all the essential elements will soon have your sick soil healthy and productive again. the Charles Scherck farm, reports Howard Lathrope. Purdue soils specialist. In the tests, three plots of corn each received 100 pounds of phos phate and potash per acre. One plot had eight pounds of nitrogen, a second had 108 pounds and the third, 208 pounds. Tissue tests of corn on the eight pound plot showed no nitrogen, but ample phosphate and potash. As the nitrogen applications went up, the potash levels in the corn plants went down, reducing growth. On the plot where 208 pounds of nitrogen were added, there was just enough potash in the fer tilizer to balance out the corn feeding program. The potash short age caused a lack of energy foods i,. the plant. The root systems of the high-nitrogen, low-potash corn were weak. The stalks were wob bly. so the plants lodged badly. place of the $18 Olesen had lost was a $20 bill.
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