Show new fertilizer to use ammonia U S chemists say manu fac twing process simple and inexpensive prepared by th alie va d states apart mint of 0 agriculture service peat a new fertilizer material lius has been developed in tile the laboratories of the department part ment of AArI agriculture culture it seems to coi combine jabino many of tile aoud bod rf fica a tures of tho the two familiar types of 0 nitrogen anro ing fertilizers it has haa not been developed commercially bet ot but chemists of the department say bay that thai tile the manufacturing process procesa Is simple and relatively inexpensive and that the commercial production of ammon peat ecat otters opportunity for material saving in freight on fertilizers small scale experiments with plants have given promising results by heating ani ammonia and peat un der pi assure about two thirds thorda of the reft reacting eting ammonia li Is changed to chemical combinations that are not soluble in water these forms forma are generally tl Al nillar to the alie nitrogenous fertilizer materials in cottonseed meal arid and roughly a third of the ammonia remains in water soluble foils depending on tell temperature the peat may be to contain up to 20 per cent of nitrogen A 20 per cent product would thus thua contain in each indred pounds neaily half ns much quick acting nitrogen as aa of sodium nitrate and would at the same tinie time contain about amee foo as much slower acting nitrogen its as IOU pounds of cottonseed moal in other words pounds of lo 10 per ent cent ammon rint mould bo be roughly equivalent to pounds of cottonseed meal plus BO 50 pounds of sodium ultra e the prod act could be shipped with notable savings in freight and with alth notable advantage in combining tho the good features of both the slow acting and the quick nitrogen carr leis the raw pent peat la Is of relatively little alue ni ng a tle ingredient lit in fertilizer but la Is recognized as a highly desirable ele cle ment in mixed because of its value ns a conditioner and he be cause it supplies to the soil poll a desirable form of organic matter |