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    <title>LSU AgCenter . Spreaders</title>
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      <title>Spreader Setting Recommendations</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:48:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[When you buy a bag of fertilizer or granular pesticide to spread on your lawn, it will usually have a label on the back of the bag with settings for several common fertilizer spreaders. Do you know where those settings come from, how they were developed or how reliable they are? - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Distribution Patterns from Homeowner Rotary Spreaders</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:00:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Some rotary spreaders can deliver a reasonably uniform distribution pattern with some products, but not with others, and some homeowner rotary spreaders don’t deliver a good pattern with any product. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Rotary Spreaders With Pattern Cut-Off</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rotary spreaders offer the advantages of wide, fast coverage and forgiving patterns, but they are not well suited to working along turf edges. Some spreaders offer a pattern cut-off mechanism to address this problem. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Self-Propelled Spreaders And Sprayers For Turfgrass</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A relatively new class of products in the commercial grounds maintenance industry is the self-propelled spreader and/or sprayer. This kind of equipment can potentially reduce the effort required to apply fertilizer or pesticides to lawns, but it comes at a substantial cost and will require some trade-offs in operating mode. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Calibrating Your Lawn Spreader</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:05:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[To obtain the best results from your granular fertilizers and pesticides, you have to apply them at the correct rate. One easy step you can take to help assure that your spreader delivers the correct rate of material is to calibrate your spreader. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Applying Controlled-release Fertilizer</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:22:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Avoid Right-angle Patterns with Rotary Spreaders</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some spreader experts and some spreader and granular material operating instructions advise you to go over your lawn twice when spreading fertilizer or granular products, with the two trips over the lawn made at right angles to each other. Don’t do it! - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>For More Information on Lawn Spreaders</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:53:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The more you learn about lawn spreaders, the more you realize how complicated they really are. The LSU AgCenter has published a bulletin that summarizes 24 years of research on spreaders. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Hand-cranked Spreaders</title>
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      <title>A Simple Hand Spreader for Gardens</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:33:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A simple hand spreader is often the best tool for applying granular fertilizer or pesticides. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Selecting a Walk-behind Professional Rotary Spreader</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:14:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Most professional applicators use rotary spreaders. Rotary spreaders are not only faster than drop spreaders, but are more forgiving of small errors in swath width. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Maintenance of Lawn Spreaders</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:55:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Fertilizer Spreaders - Metal or Plastic</title>
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      <title>Sensitivity of Spreaders to Operating Speed</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 15:24:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Pendulum-action Spreaders</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 15:41:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Fertilizer Spreaders - Rotary or Drop?</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:49:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Problems with Pulling Spreaders Backward</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:36:09 GMT</pubDate>
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