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Show Spring Fertilizer Hints Given Home Gardeners By Paul Christenson Extension Soil Conservationist Now is a good time to apply fertilizer to lawns and gardens. We often have questions con- cerning fertilizer application: W hat materials should be used? What is the best fertilizer to be apply? How much should applied? The answers to these questions is related to your individual situation. FERTILIZER FOR LAWNS: Manure has been used for years for application to lawns. This is still recognized as good material: however, manure is messy and may bring in weed seeds. In addition, the organic effects of manure are not as important on lawns as in other situations. We. therefore, sugcomgest that you consider mercial fertilizers, for your lawns. When you select fertilizer, that nitrogen is for grass, and phosphate is for clover. If you like clover in your lawn, you should apply phosphate: however, you don't need to apply it every year. One pound of treble super phosphate per 100 sq. ft. should require-nrj:;l- s satisfy the phosphate for clover in lawn for at least years. If you are not interested in clover, one application of phosphate should last your grass at least years. Grass needs nitrogen every year. Nitrogen can be applied in the spring and again in the late .summer when the effects of he spring application wears off. Yon can use ammonium io ie sulphate or ammonium nitrate. Ten pounds of ammonium sulphate or five pounds of ammonium nitrate per 1000 sq. ft. is adequate. Don't exceed these amounts very much or you may burn your lawn. In case you get too much on. irrigate heavily and avoid the burning effects. FERTILIZER FOR GARDENS: If manure is available, use it on your gardens and plow it under. If the manure contains a lot of straw, you will need to add nitrogen fertilizer. It will also pay to add some phosphate fertilizer with the manure, once every years. You can satisfy the fertilizer requirements of your garden with commercial fertilizers. We lbs. of suggest you apply lbs. ammonium nitrate or of ammonium sulphate per 1000 2-- 4 10-1-5 0 & si il & Est Thursday, March 25. 19(55 Fertilizer Helps Nutritional Value the By Dr. Paul D. Christensen Extension Soil Conservationist Utah State University sq. ft. of garden area. You may want to divide this application. Apply some in the early spring and plow it under or work it into the soil. The rest can be applied and irrigated in during early summer. Your garden phosphate needs will be satisfied if you apply lbs, of treble super phosphate once every years Be wise is your selection of fertilizers. Don't be fooled by products sold as soil conditionand other "paters, cure-allented" mixtures. 4 Mnrh has been said in of past concerning the effect fertilizer on the nutritional value of the crops produced. Some people believe that crops n grown on poor soils are ow nutritional value. Others contend that there is no direct relationship between a soil's fertility level and the nutritional value of crops grown on it. should What believe? we Fortunately, several things are concerning definitely known fertilizer and related food value. First we note that the application of a particular nutrient element to the soil usually results in a higher level of this element in the plant. For ex aaaS' ample, the application of Treble Phosphate to pasture Super land usually results in an increase of phosphate in the forage produced on the pasture. This had corrected certain phosphate nutritional disorders in animals where the soil and plants are low in phosphate and were not the animal needs In other in ways. supplied areas where certain trace element deficiencies have caused nutritional diseases in cattle, the disorders have been corrected by adding those trace elements to the soils where the animals grazed. Researchers have many times demonstrated that protein content of certain plants can be Continued on page 3 4 0 " Fertilize ) M f:fi iMfMw"MMW pf iWIl'l Still5! a I Dryland Wheat Fertilize Dryland Wheat By Rex F. Nielson, Associate Professor of Agronomy Utah State University The odds look good this year for dryland wheat farmers in Northern Utah to get a finbeneficial response ancially from nitrogen fertilizer. Much of the benefit depends on soil moisture and stand. Both look favorable now. Moisture in the soil reservoir from last is above average season's rains on the fallowed land, and there is a good coverage of winter snow to add more moisture to unfrozen fields. Most grain observed m Northern Utah got up well in the fall. If it doesn't winter kill or die from snow mold, we should have good stands this Therefore, if you haven't fall fertilized, it will probably pay you to apply of available about 40 pounds nitrogen per acre as early as possible this spring. You may even want to fly it on since some fields may be May. Quoted muddy charges for helicopter appear with ground rig competitive application. The nitrogen must be put on early enough so it will go into with moisture from the soil snow or rain. It won't do you any good laying on top of the that ground. However, watch you don't apply it so early thai it will lc carried away with runoff we note when (Icnci ally, IllciKlilie runilil inn:, are .ilmve nitro,lcl.i::c It .i.s lo apply cowli-Iioiigen. But when moisture are below the average, the yield increase you may get will not pay for the fertilizer and cost of applying it. spring. The farmer who uses fertilizer in the proper amounts realizes the highest income from his land. 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