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Nitrogen Helps Pasture
Plants Take Up Phosphate
Fertilizer
Nitrogen fertilizer not only increases pasture yields but also helps the plants use top-dressed phosphate fertilizer more efficiently.
In field tests at the VPI Agricultural Experiment Station 50 pounds of nitrogen as ammonium nitrate* doubled yields in early spring growth of an orchard grasslblue grass pasture, and tripled the amount of applied phosphate taken up by the! grass.
Dr. C. I. Rich, agronomist at the Station, says radioactive phosphorus is being used as a tag for the applied superphosphate fertilizer as part of an effort to increase the efficiency of . the use of the fertilizer. Usually only about 10 percent of the applied phosphate is used by the first year’s crop. Other tests indicate that granulation of the phosphate to small birdshot size not only iieTps kite spreading of the fertilizer but enables plant roots to better absorb the phosphate than is the case with pulverized fertilizer.
Baby Pigs Try
Synthetic Milk
How do baby pigs fare on synthetic milk? Thalt’s the question oft asked by farmers, and an answer is upcoming at VPI's animal husbandry department. *}
There, staff members put five pigs of a litter of nine on one of the synthetic formulas about five weeks ago. To date the pigs look uniform and weigh 20 pounds each as compared to 18 pounds each for the pigs remaining with the sow. So far, the pigs on the synthetic ration have consumed 22 pounds of milk each, at a cost of 25c per pound.
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