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[Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 12:06 PM 04/18/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>It snowed here today in Maine.  A warm, wet spring snow, barely
>enough to stick to the ground.  I was in the Blue Hill post office
>this morning and as each new person came in the door they would make
>some comment about the weather and usually finish off with,  "Yup.
>Poor man's fertilizer."

Phil,
As Vic stated, it's in relation to the N cycle.
I'd seen a similar discussion several years back - seemed the old-timers 
attached some significance to the N dissolved in snow(but wouldn't the same 
, or more, N be dissolved in rainwater?); one respondent even related her 
memories of her father or grandfather getting out and plowing(with a 
two-bottom plow) the snow under, in order to incorporate that N directly 
into the soil so it didn't sublimate away when the snow melted.
Don't know if it really works or not.  Maybe some of our more 
learned/experienced NAFEXers will weigh in with more info.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY


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