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Show r Experimental Farm. Finds Wood Chips Aid Crop Yields Wood chips can produce higher crop yields, according to George R. Free, project supervisor of soil and water conservation research for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Agri-culture. Manure, crop residues and even wood chips are being used at the experiment farm. Their purposes pur-poses are to protect the soil, maintain or build up soil or- - ganlc matter, and develop good soil structure. Wood chips, when used as a topdressing on row crops such as beans, tomatoes and cabbage, help produce higher high-er yields. Cabbage with high fertilization fertiliza-tion produced 21 tons per acre where wood chips were used compared with 14 tons on plots receiving only fertilizer. However work is still in the experimental experimen-tal stage. Further Information on the wood chip treatment may be ob- tained by writing the College of ' Southern Utah, or your county agent. |