Show fertilizer BECOMES ELIGIBLE FOLLOWING RECENT ORDER OF measures designed to make all aft forms ot of organic nitrogen materials abai available lable to eligible in as equitable qui table a manner as possible during the 1943 44 crop season have been listed by the war food adain admin lamont lament E iron county aget annn ounces the order is contained in food production order no 12 revision 2 and provides for the distribution of a limited quantity of edible cottonseed meal for use in fertilizer additionally the order sets up eligibility sta standards edards for purchasers of the meal purchasers are limited to 70 per cent of the amount they used in mixed fertilizers for application to crops in 1941 42 the restriction applies to all organic nitrogenous T materials te including the limited amount of edible type seed meal which manufacturers may become eligible to purchase during the current fertilizer year since june 30 1943 the use of edible seed meals as fertilizers has been prohibited according to mr all of it being directed into fe feeding edina channels the first half ol of this year the use of edible type cottonseed meal was permitted by the war food administration officials explain that much of the edible organic nitrogenous materials bone meal animal dried blood fish meal and others wha which formerly were used as fertilizer now go almost entirely in to livestock feed because of the shipping situation imports of these materials have been reduced organic nitrogen is needed needed urgent ly ay for certain crops particularly those grown in the sandy soils of the eastern state farm areas and for shade grown tobacco such material is also needed in nominal quantities as an ingredient of all mixed fertilizers to improve drilling quality and to keep such stich fertilizers in good physical condition during storage the armed services also require con sid erable tonnage for maintaining grass covering for airfields |