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After planting, other implements can be used to cultivate weeds from between rows, or to spread fertilizer and pesticides.

His neighbors reported he was spreading fertilizer on his lawn on the morning of the explosion.

Men and women in white, doctors and nurses, turned the soil, planted seedlings, sprayed bugs, spread fertilizer.

He works outside for an hour or two every evening, pruning his rose bushes, spreading fertilizer and trimming his shrubs.

It seems he was more vigilant pursuing fish than he was yanking weeds and spreading fertilizer.

"He was spreading fertilizer by hand," Mrs. Hodson said.

Now he spends those mornings pricing new shrubs, spreading fertilizer or weeding the garden of his Westport, Conn., home.

Mr. Mattingly said he was spreading fertilizer more carefully and using fewer pesticides than he did a few years ago because of the variable-rate applicators.

Two days after the explosion, Mr. Nichols was at home, spreading fertilizer on his lawn by hand, a neighbor, Geraldine Hodson, said.

The North Koreans picked an agricultural song about spreading fertilizer along the path toward progress, as well as Korean classics, like "Arirang."

A few blocks away, Richard Ward laughed on a recent afternoon at the suggestion that he could ever own the house and the lawn where he was spreading fertilizer.

Mr. Silkowski, 23, said that when he used to spread fertilizer all day, "I wouldn't ingest it, but I'd taste it for the next 24 hours."

Edward IV, 18, a student at Cornell University, enjoys tractor driving and was spreading fertilizer on a recent afternoon, part of his summer job on the farm.

Mr. Rothermel programs them to deliver the equivalent of an inch and a quarter of rain each week and has used them to spread fertilizer and pesticide.

He would mow the lawn once or twice weekly and occasionally spread fertilizer, toss out a little grass seed, spade the flowerbeds and handle some light cleanup with a rake.

Grinning wryly, Mr. Taylor pointed out the most untenable regulations in the 1990 draft, which forbade spreading fertilizer or storing manure within 500 feet of any spring or stream.

And not if taxes are rising, as they are here, along with insurance rates and power bills and the price of those rotary gizmos that you push to spread fertilizer pellets on the lawn.

In 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, scientists using federal grants spread fertilizer made from human and industrial wastes on yards in poor, black neighborhoods to test whether it might protect children from lead poisoning in the soil.

Throughout the day, Mr. Belmore, who spreads fertilizer across as much as 520 acres a day, navigated the tractor based on the G.P.S. coordinates on his screen, which told him where he was in the field.

Industrywide, unit sales of tractors of 140 horsepower or more, used to prepare soil, plant seeds and spread fertilizer, jumped 64.7 percent in May from a year earlier, to 1,097, according to the Farm and Industrial Equipment Institute, a trade group.

Pilots of the Royal New Zealand Air Force's 42 Squadron spread fertilizer from Avengers beside runways at Ohakea air base and provided a demonstration for farmers at Hood aerodrome, Masterton, New Zealand.

Using a Miles Whitney Straight from 1939 on his own initiative and sometimes forging aircraft log books to conceal his work, Pritchard conducted trials of aerial seed sowing and spreading fertilizer which ultimately lead to the development of aerial topdressing.

I had a spot, a nook between the fender and the seat of the John Deere, and I had spent hours there firmly grasping the metal pole holding the umbrella that would cover the driver, either Pappy or my father, when we chugged through the fields plowing or planting or spreading fertilizer.