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The Effect of Additions of Nitrogen on the Decomposition of Sugar Cane Trash under Field Conditions 1
Author(s) -
Sturgis Madison B.
Publication year - 1932
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1932.00021962002400090004x
Subject(s) - baton rouge , sugar cane , work (physics) , operations research , library science , political science , mathematics , computer science , engineering , environmental science , law , agricultural science , mechanical engineering , politics
• Sugar cane trash is the material left on the surface of the ground after harvesting sugar cane and consists of all the leaves and the upper immature part of the stalk. In 1930 there were 184,000 acres of sugar cane harvested in Louisiana which gave an average yield of 17.0 tons of mill cane and 8.3 tons of trash per acre. This trash crop contained 40 pounds of combined nitrogen per acre. It also contained 2,800 pounds of hydrolyzable carbohydrates which have the potential capacity of inducing the fixation of 26 pounds of nitrogen per acre through the stimulation of nitrogen-fixing forms of the