. ALFALFA CRIMSON CLOVER SWEET CLOVER WHITE CLOVER RED CLOVER ALS1KE CLOVER SWEET PEAS GARDEN PEAS GARDEN BEANS LIMA BEANS VELVET BEANS LUPINS Uninoculated ALFALFA Inoculated BURR CLOVER COW PEAS SOY BEANS CANADA FIELD PEAS PEANUTS VETCH And all other pod-growing plants called legumes, enrich the soil through the action of bacteria growing upon their roots. These bacteria live only upon the roots ot legumes, and by an action of their bodies extract the free nitrogen of the air, and deposit around themselves as nitrates, thus forming little sacks or nodules on the roots of the growing plants. T
. ALFALFA CRIMSON CLOVER SWEET CLOVER WHITE CLOVER RED CLOVER ALS1KE CLOVER SWEET PEAS GARDEN PEAS GARDEN BEANS LIMA BEANS VELVET BEANS LUPINS Uninoculated ALFALFA Inoculated BURR CLOVER COW PEAS SOY BEANS CANADA FIELD PEAS PEANUTS VETCH And all other pod-growing plants called legumes, enrich the soil through the action of bacteria growing upon their roots. These bacteria live only upon the roots ot legumes, and by an action of their bodies extract the free nitrogen of the air, and deposit around themselves as nitrates, thus forming little sacks or nodules on the roots of the growing plants. These sacks furnish the growing plant with all the nitrates it requires, and still leaves large amounts unused in the soil ready for future crops or other crops growing at the same time with the legumes. The method of transfer of soil for inoculation is both costly and dangerous—weed seed, soil and plant diseases are transferred in this way. All inoculations should be done by means of the pure cultures of nitrogen-gathering bacteria, which are free from contamination and contain only active bacteria of the proper kind. FARMOQERM Farmogerm is nitrogen-fixing bacteria that have been selected and bred up to transform large amounts of nitrogen from the air into soluble nitrates. These bacteria are grown in a jelly or food, in which they remain active for long periods of time, and sent out in a bottle which admits the necessary supply of pure air, yet keeps out destructive contamination. WHAT FARMOQERM WILL DO Farmogerm, as will be understood from what has already been said, furnishes legume crops with all the nitrates they need for a maximum growth, and causes enough nitrates to be produced during the growth of the legume crop and left in the soil to supply two or three following crops of other kinds. And the high-bred bacteria of Farmogerm produce these results to a much greater extent than bacteria which are not bred up to in- crease their nitrogen-fixing power. Unless the soil
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