Show grass land made more valuable by fertilizer A book boob by sir frederick kaeble director of 0 research for the imperial chemical industries ltd gives some of the remarkable results obtained by the application of fertilizers to pastures english farmers are endeavoring to improve their luxuriant luxoria lit pastures by getting earlier and more continuous growth results of trials made in england are reviewed by sir frederick on 01 per cent of the farms the grass was ready from 14 ta 28 days earlier on plots treated with nitro chalk at the rate of pounds to the acre it Is pointed out that there Is a considerable gain when live stock can be turned out a fortnight earlier and the cost of expensive concentrated reeds feeds saved it Is shown by charts that while grass land Is under present conditions the inferior of arable land as EL a producer of food it Is possible by supplying nitrogen and mineral food to more than double the quantities of crude protein nearly treble the digestible protein and about a third more total food measured as starch than are contained in the oat crop in new zealand there are already farmers expert braziers gra graz lers all of them who are applying nitrogen and fertilizers to their grass land |