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The placement of fertilizers: I. Root crops

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

A. H. Lewis
A. H. Lewis
Affiliation:
Jealott's Hill Research Station, Bracknell, Berks
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Evidence is adduced to show that sowing the fertilizer in restricted zones or bands gives higher yields of swedes, sugar beet and mangolds than broadcasting and harrowing in fertilizers.

Sowing fertilizer in bands at one or both sides of the seed is the most satisfactory method of application. The bands should be about l½ in. from the seed and an inch or so below it. Placing the bands much further away than 1½ in. gives inferior results.

Sowing fertilizer in bands at both sides of the seed involves risk of bad sowing, as, on bad seed beds, clods may jam between the fertilizer coulters even if they are staggered. Sowing fertilizer in a single band at the side of the seed obviates this difficulty and sometimes gives higher yields. It is recommended that for swedes, mangolds and sugar beet, complete fertilizers should be sown in one band about 1 in. below and distant laterally about 1½ in. from the seed.

On soils very deficient in one or more nutrients, sowing fertilizer in a band below, but not in contact with the seed, gives very good results, but on most soils it is likely to lead to a poor stand of plant and low yields.

Sowing fertilizers in the drills in contact with the seed gives good results on soils acutely deficient in one or more nutrients, but it can only be recommended for specific fertilizers in restricted areas (e.g. super-phosphate can be used in this way for swedes on some soils in Wiltshire and Dorset) since it involves serious risk of impaired germination.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , July 1941 , pp. 295 - 307
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1941

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