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The nitrogen status of soils Part I. The nitrification of some nitrogenous fertilizers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

O. Owen ,
D. W. Rogers  and
G. W. Winsor
O. Owen
Affiliation:
Experimental and Research Station, Cheshunt, Herts
D. W. Rogers
Affiliation:
Experimental and Research Station, Cheshunt, Herts
G. W. Winsor
Affiliation:
Experimental and Research Station, Cheshunt, Herts
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The rates of nitrification and the extent to which a number of nitrogenous materials are nitrified in soil have been studied. Of the substances used ammonium sulphate was most rapidly and most completely nitrified under these conditions. A reputedly genuine sample of Peruvian guano was almost as rapid as ammonium sulphate. At the other end of the scale was horn meal, which was nitrified most slowly and in which the percentage of nitrogen converted was lowest. On a basis of nitrification alone there appears to be no justification for the traditional view that hoof and horn is slow- and that dried blood is quick-acting. Two samples of bone meal showed very different rates of decomposition. This, and the anomalous behaviour of hoof and horn separately as compared with mixed hoof and horn, suggest that differences occur in the behaviour of different samples of what are nominally the same materials. Some of the commercial implications of these findings are discussed.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 40 , Issue 1-2 , January 1950 , pp. 185 - 190
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1950

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