The O. M. Scott & Sons Company

Fred E Ferguson

Robert Joseph Bell

Kenneth Eugene Fersch

Rory R Hughes

A free-flowing granular fertilizer composition and a process for its preparation in which the granules comprise expanded, substantially oil-free coffee grounds as a carrier coated and impregnated with a urea-formaldehyde condensation product. The condensation product has from 1 to 3 moles of urea for each mole of formaldehyde and the composition has at least 15% of the total nitrogen in cold water insoluble form.

Urea-formaldehyde granular fertilizer

A fungicide composition particularly effective for the control of leafspot and dollarspot comprising a mixture in granular form of (a) a phthalonitrile of the formula ##SPC1## Wherein each X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, chlorine, fluorine and bromine with at least one X being other than hydrogen, (b) for each 1275 grams of the phthalonitrile, from about 200 to 1800 ml of octyl phenoxy polyethoxy ethanol having 9 to 10 oxyethylene groups, and (c) a carrier to which the fungicide is adhered, the carrier having a bulk density of at least 20 lbs. per cubic foot.

Fungicidal compositions containing a phthalonitrile

The pick-up of free moisture by particulate fertilizer compositions containing a ferrous salt is reduced by the addition to the compositions of relatively small amounts of anhydrous magnesium sulfate.

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Marysville, OH, United States of America

Fred E Ferguson