Show pasture improved by ly proper system I 1 ll 11 fertilizer additon addition 4 produces good stand A pasture improvement afi aysien that has enabled farmers fol follows tollo lowi wini oil n it to increase their grass product io 10 if 78 per cent through applications application 0 nitrogen in the tall fall and SO 80 01 i per c cm through spring treatments was W wa re tec K mended commended om by prof D it dodd ea tension agronomist of 0 ohio stat slat university professor dodd V rnea mea ared the results in numerous test on ohl ohio 0 farms of nitrogen aepli eions in the tall fail of 1944 and hi spring of 1945 and his findings S based on these tests the nitrogen fertilizer wa was 3 apelle 0 on n p pastures 4 s t u r es i in n t the he f form 0 r m of ammon u inn m n nitrate i t r a t a at t a an n av average c r a ge r rate ate of 12 1 pounds per acre in the fall fail and 11 pounds in the spring f professor dodd reported that thi effect of the plant food on th tl better cows will result from bet ter grazing crazing conditions growth of the grass was more pro pr bounced in fields where legume made up less than 50 per cent 0 the stand of grass but even wil a high per cent of clover the ii crease was 68 per cent in the va v rious tests studied 37 farmers shi t applied an average of pounds 0 i ammonium nitrate on meadows gi go an average increase of 1700 pound of hay per acre dill the fall applications made a difference of 1500 pounds of hay bay peri pet acre and spring applications ln in creased yields on an average of 1730 1790 pounds of hay per acre while the average date of all alla application of ohio was october sj at and the nitrogen was placed on chaj fields in spring as early earl as possible mr dodd said the season of app apall g is not as important as a the farmers decision to apply th nitrogen one time or another W cause profitable dividend is ahsu assured from either application |