TREE RESEARCH

February 14, 2002

The following are the results of the study to determine the effect on growth by applying NUTRIPAK on three and four year old loblolly pine trees.

Three separate tracts in northeast Mississippi were selected. Plots were established on each tract. Each plot consisted of treated and untreated trees. Trees were measured in May, 2001 and remeasured in February 2002. The increase in growth of the untreated trees was considered to be the normal annual growth. The increase of the untreated plots was subtracted from the increase of the treated plots. The difference was considered the growth attributable to the NUTRIPAK treatment.

0 indicates no or less different in the treated and untreated. Negative values were treated as 0.

Tom B. Wood