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Pinedale Roundup
Pinedale, Sublette County, Fremont County, Wyoming
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Advice on safe fertilizer use: apply occasionally on unfertilized land, not continuously, to avoid exhausting soil. Benefits corn-belt crops by aiding early growth and root systems for winter wheat against Hessian fly, but not a substitute for rotation or manure.
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The safe use of fertilizer is not in continued applications of it to succeeding crops, but in occasional use and always on land not fertilized the year before. While one application increases the yield and quality of grain, the continued use of fertilizer is to exhaust the land and lose in the end more than we gain. Fertilizer is not a royal road to success, nor is it a substitute for crop rotation or barnyard manure.
The chief benefit in its use on corn-belt soils is in the start it gives crops and consequent root system developed, enabling winter wheat to withstand a severe winter with nominal loss. The necessity of late sowing to avoid Hessian fly infestation gives wheat a late start.
Where fertility is short, the plant has little root growth before frost checks growth entirely for the season. Fertilizer fits in in such a case, but not in continued use on the same land and crop.
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The safe use of fertilizer is not in continued applications of it to succeeding crops, but in occasional use and always on land not fertilized the year before. While one application increases the yield and quality of grain, the continued use of fertilizer is to exhaust the land and lose in the end more than we gain. Fertilizer is not a royal road to success, nor is it a substitute for crop rotation or barnyard manure. The chief benefit in its use on corn-belt soils is in the start it gives crops and consequent root system developed, enabling winter wheat to withstand a severe winter with nominal loss. The necessity of late sowing to avoid Hessian fly infestation gives wheat a late start. Where fertility is short, the plant has little root growth before frost checks growth entirely for the season. Fertilizer fits in in such a case, but not in continued use on the same land and crop.