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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Value and use of marsh and muck |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 11, No. 7, July 1931, p. 150. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "We are sending you a sample of a fertilizer said to consist of dried and screened leaf mold to which a small amount of gypsum has been added. Surprisingly good results are claimed by the use of this fertilizer. It is offered at the same price we pay for activated sludge, which is $30 a ton. How does it compare in fertilizing value with activated sludge?" |
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| Source of Question: | Michigan |
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| Answer/Response: | "The material you sent is not leaf mold but marsh muck. It contains considerable woody material and hence has a high percentage of organic matter. It is very well decomposed and evidently has been under cultivation for a number of years. It is an excellent source of organic matter, but does not compare with activated sludge as to fertilizing value. The latter contains 5½ per cent nitrogen, 2½ per cent phosphoric acid, and up to ½ per cent potash. Marsh muck in its native state may contain about half as much nitrogen as activated sludge, but its nitrogen is in so insoluble a form that it is of little value to growing plants. Muck contains only a trace of phosphorus and potash, and its fertilizing value as far as these are concerned is negligible. The addition of gypsum to the muck gives it some calcium and sulphur. Peats and mucks of this kind are generally sold at about $10 a ton, and although $30 a ton is a fair price for activated sludge the material you sent is not worth anything like that price. Peats and mucks are valuable chiefly for their organic content, and can be used to great advantage, if the price is right, for mixing in soil beds or placing in compost piles in order to bring up the organic content of top-dressing material. A certain amount of such organic matter mixed, together with sand, with heavy clay soils, will greatly improve the physical texture of the clay; and mixed with sand, such organic matter will raise the water-holding capacity of the sand." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Activated sewage sludge; Cost efficiency; Muck soils; Nutritional value; Recommendations
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1931. Value and use of marsh and muck. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 11(7):p. 150. |
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