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Late Applications Of Nitrate

Categories: Soils, Fertilizers and Irrigation

I have some prune trees which blossomed some time ago and the prunes are

already set, and of small size. Would you recommend me to use an

application of, say 100 pounds per acre of nitrate of soda, applied

immediately, or is it a little too late in the season to get the desired

result?



It would be perfectly safe to use 100 pounds of nitrate of soda to the

acre well distributed now; in fact, you could safe
y use twice as much,

but we doubt if you would get any benefit from it unless you should

irrigate, for there is no reason to expect showers that would have

penetrating powers enough to carry the nitrate any appreciable distance

into the soil. Of course, the nitrate could be plowed or cultivated in

to a considerable depth, but that would probably result in losing

moisture by deep opening or turning, which would do more harm than any

gain which the nitrate produces, if it were to become available. Our

judgment would be, then, that it is too late for any benefit to accrue

unless the land can be irrigated.



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