Scrap Iron As A Fertilizer
Categories:
Soils, Fertilizers and Irrigation
Is cast or other iron in small pieces plowed into the land of any
benefit to trees as a fertilizer? If so, what would be the value as such
per 100 pounds? Junk dealers sometimes offer 25 cents per 100 pounds. If
it has any value as a fertilizer, I am satisfied it must be worth four
times that price. We pay three cents a pound for sulphate of iron as a
fertilizer. Of course, it is a salt and dissolves quickly, therefore, I
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believe cast iron, even if it works slowly, has some value, and at the
by nature. Iron scraps have a little and remote value because they are
so slowly available by the process of rust disintegration. It might,
accumulates on the place below the reach of the cultivating tools. But