Top Dressing- Small Grains With Nitrogen Advised At VPT Top-dressing small grains with nitrogen during February or the first half of March will help in crease the yield of grain, thereby easing current feed shortages in some parts of the State, says G. R. Epperson, associate agronomist at VPI. He says that many farmers are short of grain for livestock feed .because of the 1952 drouth. He warns, however, that nitro gen as a top-dressing should not be used on fields where small grain usually tends to lodge. On (fields of small grain that usually • need or will need additional nitro gen. the top-dressing can mean

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