Show winter wheat will respond to fertilizers if I 1 weather conditions are favorable especially if t adequate P precipitation recipe tails falls winter wheat I 1 in n most dry land areas of utah will respond to the application of nitrogen niti ogen fertilizer ti according to county agent ray thatcher tests conducted conduced by utah state agricultural college agronomists during recent years indicates that both yield and protein content of grain will be increased if commercial nitrogen Is properly prop eily ly used recommended rates for fall application are 40 pounds of available nitrogen niti ogen per acre the fertilizer can be broadcast anytime during the fall period in these tests conducted by the college ag lono iono mists it has been shown that tall fall application is equally as good as early spring except in northern nor thein utah counties in cache and box elder counties spring applications have given slightly higher returns when compared with fall treatments but from the standpoint of actually applying the fertilizer the tall fall season may be best because of 0 more favorable weather conditions also the demand for fertilizer is heavy in the spring and farmers may have some difficulty in locating supplies at that time A series of test plots on nitrogen fertilizer were put out on wheat fields in fit enterprise last spring considerable response batir was noted in the grain but figures on the results of the test have not as yet been tabulated text said mr air thatcher |