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The efficiency of ammonium sulphate as a fertiliser

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

James Arthur Prescott
Affiliation:
Sultanic Agricultural Society, Cairo, Egypt.

Extract

Field experiments with maize at the Bahtim Experimental Station and laboratory tests indicate that the lower efficiency of ammonium sulphate as compared with nitrate of soda is due principally under these special conditions to the liberation of ammonia from the fertiliser in contact with an alkaline soil. The rate of this liberation is a function of the aeration and of the soil reaction.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1923

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