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Show Increased Yields Noted With Use 'of Fertilizer Wheat yields can be stepped up 7 to 14 bushels per acre and the hay crop can be Increased through use of more fertilizer In hay and pasture crops seeded In small grains, declares de-clares Dr. D. R. Dodd of the Ohio experiment station. This practice is particularly profitable profit-able on land already highly productive, produc-tive, Dodd points out. At an example, exam-ple, he cites tests made by research men on plots at the Ohio station. The land's producing capacity already had been built up by good toil management man-agement to that it was producing produc-ing an average of 83 bushels of corn, 23 bushels of wheat and 3 tons of hay per acre. In the tcstt, a 2-12-6 fertilizer was applied at increasing rates to wheat |