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Show Gfy, Utah THE BOX ELDER NEWS, Brigham Tuesday, March 8, 1960 ANYONE CAN DO Cultivation Cuts Organic Matter In Orchard Soil . IT Compost Offers Organic Matter For Fertilizing Home Gardens Compost is a good source of or-- 1 game matter for city or suburban A five year study in Weber gardens The compost pile may be county on soil management in made of leaves, lawn clippings orchards showed that clean culvegetable trimmings and any waste tivation reduces soil organic vegetable matter other than dismatter in orchards, pomologists eased paits of vegetables in Utah agricultural experiment These materials should be piled station report. together as they accumulate during The studies showed that ferThe lighter material the season tilizers must be adjusted to indi- such as leaves may be kept from vidual soil needs but nitrogen blowing away by coveting with a and phosphorous should be ap- small amount of soil The piles plied to obtain proper tree should be kept moist and several growth and maximum yields of pounds of a mixed fertilzer applied desirable commercial fruit. The pile1 to hasten decomposition should be turned several times durAdoption of proper soil management practices, including use ing the second season of proper fertilizers, sometimes IT will then be ready to apply to during the study increased peach the garden before fall or spring 150 200 to yields as much as plowing A leaf compost of lawn bushels an acre. clippings may be used as a mulch isss The chemistry of coal yields a rich SMOKE TO FERTILIZER e harvest in nitrogen fertilizers at the new nitrogen plant at U. S. Steels Geneva woi ks near Provo, first of its kind at a major steel mill in the United States. At this chemical plant, coke oven gas from steelmaking operations is converted into anhydious ammonia which is stored in the two big hortenspheres (right). Some ot the anhydrous ammonia goes to produce ammonium nitrate. This fei tilizer is converted into solid form as prills in the nitrogen-ricprilling tower (left). around vegetables the first year after the pile has been made During the growing season, it may be well to supplement the nutrition of leafy vegetable crops with an application of nitrogen in the form of ammonium nitrate or ammonium sulphate applied at the rate of one half to thi ths of a pound per hundred feet of row. Be sure to keep the fertilizer several inches from the plants to prevent injury to the roots of several inches ee-fo- to the side and below newly plan- ted seeds DURING the rainy season, these nitrogen fertilizers may be applied to the soil surface Fertilize! s should not be applied to leaves of cause plants because they will burning, especially if leaves are wet high-grad- h y Utah Farmers, Coal Miners Find Common Bond in Smoke Where theres smoke theres not lows the release of nitrogen over a longer penod necessarily fne1 Research chemists have found found ways to capture one particular type of smoke and change it into fertilizers and in the process have Pulled ammonium nitrate is particularly effective toi crops that re juire nitrogen in both the am mom acal and nitrate forms Applied n becommon a bond established either the fall or spung it stimu tween Utah coal miners and Utah lates vigorous growth and dev el farmers ops healthy green plants In addiSmoke fiom Utah coal is helping tion to its giowth stimulating charto produce three niacteristics, it increases the ptotein trogen fertilizers at a new Nitiogen contest of forage crops with result Plant near Ptovo Utah First of its ing gains in meat production kind at a major American steel THE third fertilizer, ammonium mill the plant is located at U S sulfate, is advantageous because Steel s Geneva Works its acid residual elfect offsets the THE fertilizers are derived, as alkaline nature of most western are many thousands of other chemi soils The presence of sulfuie in cal compounds from the captured ammonium sulfate can be an adblack lumes given off duung the vantage on sulfui deficient soils because it pi ov ides inci eased coking of loal Maiketed under the USS Nitro giowth and helps maintain dark gen Bland the three coal fertiliz- green color in plants ers ammonium sulfate anhydrous The fertilizeis aie only part ot ammonia and ammonium nitrate the infinite variety ot fantastic foi use by will be ready Utah chemical compounds that scientists farmers this spring have discovei ed may be produced In tht usually nitiogen poor wes from coal chemicals They link to tern soils farmers have found that not only I't ih fan met s and these nitrogen rich fertilizers m gether but complete the ivue mineis crease then yields at low cost back to vegetation in huge prehis THTY ofler a variety of services! L0t we use today tailoiid to the individual farmersl Heavier feititmo applit iti ms is rietils high-streng- Anhvdious ammonia is stottAi as lii in I and inpcted into the soil andei ussure as i colot less gas Tin gas adheies to i lav paitiilcsm till soil ind as the soil watms up than i s into nitrate mtiogi n which till Can be t isily (akin up b This lonvetston piocess al pi int a ni of the Vw wavs lit' taimei to cut his cost p f u not i of the store t'l ot productnlh tests USU ot "a indu tie th u Ids an 2(1 ivei ige ot on pei acte ibs d nus1 4k 01 you see this sgn-t- ht the USS Nitiogen ou know dealci Feitilier that p ots aie lot salt USb Nitiogen Feitihei- - add exit a muii of dollats to eei v at le . . . tin le is-in- g little added expense producing mote and bettet ii Ids at fV , Whet e mue is tut nitiogen pci TERRIFIC SAVINGS .. The sign . . US' f S"i C - g V ) if t 9 f " . ciops for oui pioht. '- . Stop at the sign of the USS Nitiogen Fertilizer deiler ou (an bin ad led U'-'pmfit lot voui hum Nitrogen heilihus ma L bv United States Steel. Learn how S bag fetrilixer d'rect f tom the factor to the faun Urea, Nitrate, Superphosphate and Mixed fertilizers State wide service Bulk or Call us collect at Sa t Lake A'( 21 MINERAL FERTILIZER CO., Inc. 7200 South 5h West Mtdvcde, Utah Nitrogen Fertilizers |