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By Wesley P. Judkins
There has developed in recent years a real appreciation of the value 'of sawdust as mulch around berry bushes, strawberry plants, shrubs, and in vegetable gardens. However, large numbers of growers hesitate to apply sawdust to their soils because of the fear of toxic substances which are supposedly present in this material* Most folks have also been led to believe that sawdust would make the soil acid. Still others are concerned that a deficiency of nitrogen may develop in the soil which will seriously reduce the growth and yields of plants around which the sawdust is used as mulch.
It is time to remove the cloak of superstition and speculation from this subject. The use of sawdust as mulch is too valuable a practice to be restricted by unfounded prejudices and half-truths. In many sections of the country there are large piles of sawdust which are going to waste or are being burned because people in gen
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