Show Fertilizer and Irrigation Aid to Pasture Irrigated pastures are one good goodway goodway goodway I way of increasing forage for lIvestock livestock livestock live lIve- stock and Utah State University I I scientists have found that the yield of pasture forage continues to increase when when phosphate fertilizer fertilizer fer fer- is applied in large amo amount amount- In a study conducted the past two years by C C. C II U. 0 O Q Bateman L. L and Dr G. G E. E Stoddards of the dairy Industry department it Was shown that fertilizers don don- tinned to give increased response in pasture yields even when when applied applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied at rates as aa high as SOO pounds to the acre A legume grass mixture consistIng consistIng consisting consist- consist Ing of about 70 per cent legumes was fertilized with a 45 per cent available phosphate fertilizer at the rate of and pounds per acre Green weight of forage per acre as measured by 60 square foot samples amounted to and 1 pounds for the I three treatments respectively The pound application yielded pounds more dry basis than the pound tion When pounds w was s applied applied ap ai- ap- ap plied per acre the dry matter yield was increased 1275 pounds over the pound application and 1783 pounds over the pound o 0 u n d application the scientists found 1 The protein and phosphorus were fere increased from tho the to the pound level of application bu but t not from to t. t Soil phosphorus levels were increased Increased increased In in- creased by the fl fertilization and a residue was left in the soil at the end of the second year higher than before the application The level for the higher rates of application application ap ap- was greater than for the pound level |