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>From my good friend, George Clutts in North Carolina. His son has a farm in 
Ohio. Waite Maclin

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• From: George Clutts <george_clutts@med.unc.edu>
• To: Waite8@aol.com
• Subject: Re: Fwd: [nafex] Poor Man's Fertilizer
• Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 19:40:33 -0400

Hi Waite,
Very interesting, I have not heard the saying before. I have oft heard
of the value of snows, especially late one, in that upon slowly melting
it is able to permeate the ground better. Also in the sowing of seeds
one can see the contrast of colors and get a more even distribution and
as the snow melted it seeds were allowed to seep into the ground.
As for an increased amount of N disolved into the snow, i would go with
the guy who wonders if this is good, rain water would be the same.Snow
is however something you can see.If the N was to be increased it would
have to come from somewhere, I don't believe that a molecule of N would
hop aboard a snow flake as it fell thru the air. Nature increases the N
in the soild from below and not above(N fixing plants or thwe breaking
down of organis substances. Interesting tho. Keep me undated!!
Bob

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From: Waite8@aol.com
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:59 pm
Subject: Fwd: [nafex] Poor Man's Fertilizer

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• From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
• To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
• Subject: Re: [nafex] Poor Man's Fertilizer
• Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:03:22 -0500

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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