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_ _ M — -J - A #(i4j>ivf Ll#A I ! II. — How Plants Eat and Grow | By C. V. GREGORY. \ Agricultural THx)isicn. Iotoa Stat* Coltig* 1 Copyrif hi. 1906, by American Ptcm Association f

EVERT growing plant Is a little factory . Tbe green coloTlne , matter of the leaves, or chlorophyll. is tbe engine. The sunlight Is the power that makes th.engine go, nud tbe nlr. water and some of the substances in the soil up tbe raw materials. Under tbe stimulating Influence of • sunlight the chlorophyll takes the carbon dioxide gns of tbe air and the water, nitrogen nnd minerals which the < roots send op In the form of crude sap and tears them to '^?es. Then it puts . them together af-Ti in hundreds of , ways. It makes them into the starch of tbe potato or the sugar of the sugar 1 It puts them together In another > ty and makes the hard, horny gRiti •• < f a kernel of popcorn or 1 the tough liot-r of a cornstalk. By ' 4 * t

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building tbeni up in still different ways 1 it makes the hard wood of the oak or the delicate petals of a rose. Man. ' with all his skill and machinery, has 4 never been able to make any products half so wonderful as are being made ' Levtay day lu every field on your farm. 1 - ICjlants are to grow rapidly and 1 produce large > lelds. tbey must be well fed. About ha!f I he dry weight of a 1 mature plant is made up of carbon. ' Practically all of this comes ftom tbe 1 carbon dioxide of the air. Every acre 4 of wheat will use a ton of this gas or 1 all that is In a layer of air tliree knifes I deep"over tbe acre. The constant mix- 4 lng of tbe air by the wind is always ' bringing fresh supplies within rescb of 4 the plant. v 4 The farmer does not need to concern 1 himself with tbe supply of carbon dl- 4 oxide, for every time be builds a fire 1 or even breathes he is adding to the ' store of this material in tbe air. 4 Tbe smooth upper surface of a leaf 1 both sir and water tight On the 1 underside, however, are many small ' openings, which are really the mouths of the plant It is through these tiny 1 holes that carbon dioxide is taken Into I the leef to be used by tbe chlorophyll. 1 In making starch and other products ' out of carbon dioxide and water tome ' la given off. This passes out 1 the openings In the leaves. ' Thus you see that plants breathe in 1 much the same way as animals do, 1 only they give off oxygen, the product 1 which is used by animals, and take up J carbon dioxide, tbe gas which is ' out by animals. In this way j plants make animal life possible. Ani- 1 mala give off carbon dioxide and 4 manure as waste products. Plants 1 these waste products to pieces ' and by rebuilding them make them ' once more into food for the animals. ' Next to carbon hydrogen and oxy--] are tbe foods that tbe plant uses In largest quantities. Since water is 1 composed of these elements, tbe supply will be plentiful as loug as there is plenty of water in tbe Boll. There is one element, nitrogen, which forms a considerable part of the plant, that Is harder to get. While | three-fourths of the air is nitrogen, the plant does not seem to be able to use it in this form. The only kind of plants that can use the nitrogen Id tbe air at all are tbe legumes, such as clover and alfalfa. Certain bacteria that live on the roots of these legumes have the power of changing the atmospheric nitrogen into forms In which the plant can use it We shall study more about this- process later. Nitrogen is one of tbe most Imporplant foods, and it is one that is very often lacking. If tbe plant cannot get a sufficient supply of nitrogen It will be stunted, will stop growing early, and the yield will be very much I reduced. 81nce all the crops, with tbe exception of the legumes, must get 1 their nitrogen from the soli, the farmer must see to it that there is a plentiful supply there If he wishes to ob- 1 tain a large yield. If you will drop a little rich black * soil on a bot shovel some of It will 1 up In smoke. Tbe part that burns Is c humus and Is made up of vegetable and 1 animal matter which Is partly <le- 0 cayed. This humus contains large c amounts of nitrogen, and from this 1 source tbe greater share of this element used by tbe plant must come. If I your soil is black, spongy and well k supplied with bumus there Is little ' danger that the plant will go hungry c for nitrogen. One of the best ways to c keep a Held in tbls condition Is to ap- t ply liberal quantities of barnyard ma- c anre. Another way Is to plow under • crops, especially clover. Some- 6 It is necessary to buy nitrogen * for the plant In the form of commer- • eial fertilizers, hut this Is a very ex- P pensive way of obtaining It. P Even when the plant is given all the • Ultroeen It can use It sometimes falls f

to Bo well. This is because it cannot 1 get us much of tbe mineral elements . as it needs. Too inncb .nitrogen in proportion to the cinount of mineral elements causes 1 theq.lanf to "go all to vines." There will be an excessive growth of leaves, but the yield of grain will be small. Take an car of corn or a bunch of bay ( and burn it Tbe ashes that are left are the mineral parts of the plant cannot be obtained from air or water, but must come from the soil. I Some of the most Important of these are iron, which is the substance that helps to build up chlorophyll, and sul- ) pbur, which la found in the nitrogenous parts of the plant There are a number of others , also, all of which < are present In the in such large adounts that there will probably always be all that the crops can use. Two of these minerals, however, potassium and phosphorus, are not so 4 plentiful. When the plant cannot get enough potassium tbe grain will not be filled out well. If there la too little phospborus, especially in tbe case of fruit trees, the development of fruit is checked. Adding barnyard manure to tbe soil helps to keep up tbe supply of these two materials. On farms j where little stock is kept or where grain has been raised continually for years and little attention paid to tbe aoQ it is sometimes necessary to apply phosphorus and potassium ln*tbe form . of commercial fertilisers. In the eastern part of this country there are many farms that have become so badly run down that crops will not grow at all unless they are , fed with commercial fertilizers. These ' very expensive, and it often takes nearly all a farmer makes to pay his fertilizer bills. These farms would have become so worn oat If they • been properly cared for. Leaving plowed ground, especially on bills Idas, exposed for several months during tbe . fall and winter allows much plant food wash away. Growing the same year after year wean out the land rapidly. Different crops require different kinds of food. By changing from year to year no one food material is uped to excess and the others wasted. . By keeping as much stock on tbe farm as possible, saving the manure carefully and spreading it the fields before It rota or leaches ' and by using leguminous plants ] gather nitrogen the soil cap be kept well supplied with plant food. " It is much more profitable to feed the crops in this way than to buy plant food on the market st excessive 1 prices. Usually, however, the plant la ' hungry fur the mineral elements not tbey are not In the soil, but tbey are in a form In wblcb it cannot get at tbem. Tbe roots of ; . the plant spread all through tbe soil j • search of food. If you will look at | a little root through a magnifying glass you will see that It Is covered with root hairs. It is through these I root hairs that the plant takes up food ' from the soil. There are no openings \ directly Into tbem, but the wtiUs are ' thtu that tbe water can soak I through to tbe Inside. Solid sub- - stances, of course, cannot get In. so * that the plant food must be dissolved in water before It can get Into tbe roots and so up to the chlorophyll, which W waiting to bnlld it Into seeds or leaves. If tbe soil has been worked until It is tine and loose each little particle t will become surrounded by water, which will readily dissolve the plant food from it. If, on the other hand, the soil Is in tbe form of chunks and ( clods very little of the plant food can dissolved. Tbe plant food that Is 1 tbe Inside of a clod might as well t>e out in ti e rood or over on one of tbe neighbors' farms. I Some of the potassium and phosphorus will not dissolve even when J In contact with water. It takes a long contact with the air to cause chemical actions which will I change it Into a soluble form. Continual stirring of the soil hastens this - change Thorough stirring also loosup the ground so that air can get to the roots. Without aid they will stop growing and the entire work ef the plant will stop. Tbe yellow ap- I pea ranee of a patch of corn in a low I {dace where the ground Is water soak- , ed is das to lssk of sir about tbe 1 roots.

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