This discovery is the basis of the Cyanamid “Atmospheric Nitrogen” industry or the making of fertilizer from the nitrogen in the air.
First place was given not to the wonderful inventions that are so large in the public eye, but to the fixation of nitrogen from the air for fertilizer purposes.
The fertilizer manufacturers mix the cyanamid with other ingredients to make a balanced plant food and so ship it to farmers for feeding their crops.
Germany, on one-fourth of our cultivated acreage, uses almost twice as much fertilizer as the entire United States.
And I can't find a trace of it in the fertilizer chemicals or anywhere else.
However, starting about July 1, if you support that vine by supplying liquid fertilizer every two to three weeks you may harvest 60 pounds of squash from the same area.
Take a chance: a heavy side-dressing of strong compost or complete organic fertilizer when the rains return may trigger a massive spurt of new, larger heads from buds located below the soil's surface.
Release the water/fertilizer mix close to the center of the vine, where the taproot can use it.
It is then filled with liquid fertilizer solution.
Sprinkle in a heavy dose of organic fertilizer or strong compost, and spade that in so the soil is fluffy and fertile 2 feet down.
These sorts are better started in a nursery bed around August 1 and like overwintered cauliflower, transplanted about 2 feet apart when fall rains return, then, pushed for growth with extra fertilizer in fall and winter.
A light side-dressing of complete organic fertilizer or compost in late September will grow the hugest plants imaginable.
The strength of the fertilizer you need depends on how much and deeply you placed nutrition in the subsoil.
Corn Broadcast complete organic fertilizer or strong compost shallowly over the corn patch till midwinter, or as early in spring as the earth can be worked without making too many clods.
Side-dressing manure or fertilizer late in September (or sooner if the rains come sooner) will provoke very rapid autumn growth and a surprisingly large yield from plants that looked stress out in August.
One thing fertilizer makers find expensive to accomplish is concocting a mixture of soluble nutrients that also contains calcium, a vital plant food.
Wondering if a hidden cause of what appeared to be moisture stress might actually be nutrient deficiencies, I tried spraying liquid fertilizer directly on these gnarly leaves, a practice called foliar feeding.
Double dig a few square feet of soil beneath each seedling, and make sure fertilizer gets incorporated all the way down to 2 feet deep.
Irrigation: After mid-June, 4 to 5 gallons of drip bucket liquid fertilizer every two to three weeks makes an enormous difference.
The main sowing waits until frost is unlikely and I can dig the potato rows at least 12 inches deep with a spading fork, working in fertilizer as deeply as possible and ending up with a finely pulverized 24-inch-wide bed.
Even if this idea never goes a step farther, there's a gold mine in just the production of fertilizer from air!
They're working on it, over there, to obtain cheap and plentiful fertilizer from the air.
The black walnut tree is a glutton for food seemingly, it will use all the fertilizer that it is given although, no doubt, there is a practical limit.
One must always remember that the feeding roots of a tree are at about the same circumference as the tips of the branches so that fertilizer put close to the trunk will do little good except in very young trees.
If fertilizer is used, it should be early in the spring, as soon as the ground is free from frost.
These things are incidents of school business, but they are no more reason for the school's existence than fertilizer and seed are reasons for making a garden.
Beeson used 5-1/2 tons of manure and eight dollars' worth of other fertilizer on his acre.
Fertilizer is bought at exorbitant prices, while the richness of the barnyard goes to waste, and legumes are neglected; land is allowed to wash into gullies which soon become ravines.
The phosphate deposits of the South Atlantic States are also important, and the fertilizer industry is showing more and more a tendency to become sectional.
In the mines, blast furnaces, oil mills, and fertilizer factories the negroes do the hardest and most unpleasant tasks, work which in the North is done by recent immigrants.
More than a hundred oil mills have fertilizer departments.
For this purpose there are assessors, collectors, treasurers, comptrollers or auditors, and various other officials.
If the first house refuses its concurrence, a conference committee is usually appointed by the two houses to consider and recommend a compromise.
Those ever-so-convenient city inventions the jet plane and the aerosol spray, and the nitrogen fertilizerthat the city invented to dominate the farming villages, are the instruments by which the city is destroying the ozone layer.
It was then realized that, unless some new store of this essential fertilizer could be found, it would soon be impossible to provide the food requisite for the world's teeming millions.
To form some idea of the importance of the problem and the urgency of its solution, it may be stated that the amount of fertilizer required for the cotton crop alone in the Southern States in 1911 was no less than three million tons.
The women thoroughly spread this fertilizer with their hands and feet when they transplant (see Pl.
One end is two or more feet deeper than the other, and it is into this lower space that the washings of the pen are stored in the rotted straw and weeds, and from which the manure for fertilizer is taken.
As has been said, the manure fertilizer is placed about the sementera in piles.
Persons who are unacquainted with the principles controlling the use of commercial fertilizers may, however, be led to believe that the price of the fertilizer is an indication of its value for the production of a given crop.
To the value of the fertilizer thus obtained is added something for cost of mixing, bagging and freight, and something for profit.
The large number of plants per acre enables the plants to utilize the fertilizer to the highest degree, and plowing under the resulting dense sod is one of the most effective methods of enriching the soil.
The growing of clover will not teach him that mineral fertilizer may keep up the fertility of the soil where clover grows luxuriantly and occurs in the rotation at definite intervals.
While not constituting a statement of absolute commercial value for any given locality, they do enable the purchaser to determine whether the price quoted on a given brand of fertilizer is within reason.
It is possible to comply with the law and yet state the guarantee upon each bag of fertilizer in such a manner as to mislead the uninformed.
The above fertilizer suggestions are based on the experiments covering a period of more than 25 years on a limestone soil.
As is well known to all students of the subject, there is no necessary relation between the commercial value of a fertilizer and the fitness of its formula for a given soil and crop.
As a matter of fact, the Pennsylvania experiment station has substantially these two conditions in certain of its fertilizer plats.
If thefertilizer is applied to one-year-old apple trees, this investment may be required to pay interest for fifteen years.
They each provide one-half the commercial fertilizer and one-half the seed, except clover seed, which the tenant is required to furnish.
In these estimates, instead of making a charge for the actual cost of manure or fertilizer applied, an estimate is made of the value of the plant food removed.
Marl has been found to be the one specific fertilizer for the Peanut plant--better than any other form of lime; and the chief element of value in marl has been shown to be the carbonate of lime.
The best peanut soil and the proper fertilizer had been found out before an analysis of the plant had been made.
If any fertilizer is to be used, let it be put in the furrow before the ridge is formed; a man or boy following the plow and spreading the fertilizer by hand.
Of marl, the best fertilizer yet discovered for the Peanut, the principal ingredient of value, is carbonate of lime.
It has been the aim of the author to point out the underlying principles and to discuss the important subjects connected with the use of fertilizer materials.
Hence the proper fertilizer to use is one that contains a large per cent.
And you get the saltpeter and fertilizer from——” The giant did not wait for Epworth to finish his sentence.
They go mixed with commercial fertilizer liquidized.
The nation faces its seventh year of food shortages because of weather-related problems, including major drought in 2000, and chronic shortages of fertilizer and fuel.
Worst of any, however, were the fertilizer men, and those who served in the cooking rooms.
The month of May was an exceptionally cool one, and his secret prayers were granted; but early in June there came a record-breaking hot spell, and after that there were men wanted in the fertilizer mill.
It was not for himself that he suffered--what did a man who worked in Durham's fertilizer mill care about anything that the world might do to him!
Before him was one of the vents of the mill in which the fertilizer was being ground--rushing forth in a great brown river, with a spray of the finest dust flung forth in clouds.
There is a place that waits for the lowest man--the fertilizer plant!
These, however, were all slight matters to a man who had escaped from Durham's fertilizer mill.
Of course Jurgis had made his home a miniature fertilizer mill a minute after entering.
He went straight to Graham's fertilizer mill, to see if he could get back his job.
Jurgis ought to have been at his place in thefertilizer mill; but instead he was waiting, in an agony of fear, for Ona.
So he doffed his prison garb, and put on his old fertilizer clothing, and heard the door of the prison clang behind him.
There were few single men in the fertilizer mill--and those few were working only for a chance to escape.
As for Jurgis, he was expected to bring home every penny; he could not even go with the men at noontime--he was supposed to sit down and eat his dinner on a pile of fertilizer dust.
Most of the men, when they came out, made straight for a saloon--they seemed to placefertilizer and rattlesnake poison in one class.
Two days later they made scheduled contact with the caravan of potato fertilizer and tractor fuel.
Four weeks later two of the fertilizer sleds went out of phase and automatically cut the ship out of hyperdrive.
When the crop is up, if a second fertilization is desired, a furrow may be made alongside each row, into which the fertilizer is sowed and then covered.
His grandson was carrying the prepared fertilizer to the garden area seen in Fig.
Here nearly if not all fertilizer compost is prepared in the villages and carried to the fields, however distant these may be.
Into these furrows fertilizer is placed and covered with a layer of earth upon which the seed is planted.
About ten per cent of the amount of fertilizer required for the crop is applied at the time of fitting the ground, the balance being administered from time to time as the season advances.
In the next two miles one hundred fields were counted and just before reaching the station we counted during five minutes, with watch in hand, ninety-five fields to be planted, upon which this fertilizer had been brought.
I have raised some crops in this way; but have been led to plow in from four to six cords of good manure to the acre, and then use from five hundred to a thousand pounds of some good fertilizer in the hill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fertilizer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ammonia; compost; dressing; dung; manure; muck; nitrate; nitrogen
