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Published online 1 April 1959
Published in Agron J 51:196-198 (1959)
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Effects of Green Manure Crops on Dryland Wheat Production in the Great Plains Area of Montana1

T. J. Army and J. C. Hide2

Synopsis: Green manure crops of sweetclover, field peas, and winter rye grown during part of the fallow period had no beneficial effects on dryland wheat yields, test weight, or protein content, There was no evidence that continued use of green manures materially affected soil nitrogen or carbon content.


1 Contribution from the Soil and Water Conservation Research Division, ARS, USDA, and the Montana Agr. Exp. Sta. cooperating. Published with the approval of the Director as paper No. 425 Journal Series, Montana Agr. Exp. Sta.

2 Soil Scientist, Western Soil and Water Management Research Branch, SWCRD, ARS, USDA, and Professor of Soils, Montana Agr. Exp. Sta., respectively. The authors wish to acknowledge the capable technical assistance of past and present personnel of the Huntley, Central, and Northern Montana Branch Experiment Stations, where the data used in this article were collected.

Received for publication July 21, 1958.


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