The Cow
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The owner now wonders vaguely why that old hill does not seem to feed as many cows as it used to in grandfather's time. Of course, the argument is that while the cow takes everything off the land, she immediately returns her manure in liquidation of the debt. This line of reasoning is very faulty because some of this fertility is permanently lost to the farm and some of it is redistributed to other areas. Mere pasturing does not constitute soil con- servation. When we remember that each ton of ...milk contains, say, twelve pounds of nitrogen, four pounds of phosphoric acid and four pounds of potash, and that these old pastures have been fur- nishing scores of tons of milk annually for genera- tions, and when we add to this the much more serious loss due to other causes, we see that our old pastures present a very serious problem in soil depletion.
In general, these old worn fields are to be treated in one of three ways. Those reasonably free of 54 THE COW laxge stones and trees and level enough to admit; the use of modem farm machinery ought to be plowed and, for a season or two at least, put into the regular rotation of the farm.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The owner now wonders vaguely why that old hill does not seem to feed as many cows as it used to in grandfather's time. Of course, the argument is that while the cow takes everything off the land, she immediately returns her manure in liquidation of the debt. This line of reasoning is very faulty because some of this fertility is permanently lost to the farm and some of it is redistributed to other areas. Mere pasturing does not constitute soil con- servation. When we remember that each ton of ...milk contains, say, twelve pounds of nitrogen, four pounds of phosphoric acid and four pounds of potash, and that these old pastures have been fur- nishing scores of tons of milk annually for genera- tions, and when we add to this the much more serious loss due to other causes, we see that our old pastures present a very serious problem in soil depletion.
In general, these old worn fields are to be treated in one of three ways. Those reasonably free of 54 THE COW laxge stones and trees and level enough to admit; the use of modem farm machinery ought to be plowed and, for a season or two at least, put into the regular rotation of the farm.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Van Wagenen, Jared, 1871-1960 to read onlineMoreLess
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