Theoretical and Experimental Verification of Organic Granular Fertilizer Spreading
, Ramūnas Mieldažys and Gražvydas JuodišiusRound 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This is simple but important practical research on fertilizer spreading that can provide meaningfull outcomes to growers who use spreader.
I found some basic mistakes in manuscript. please check whole manuscript and update it.
Table 3: Please set words allignmnt , if technical paramters are in same line, write in a same sequence.
387,388: Check format of 1000kg...check whole manuscript
in discussion part, you should mention granular size and then recommend your results like speed 5km...., or fertilizer....
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
First of all, we would like to thank the reviewer for reviewing our manuscript. We appreciate your comments, suggestions, and recommendations to improve the quality of the manuscript. All comments from the reviewers were taken into account and the manuscript was revised. All corrections are highlighted in the text. Responses to the reviewer comments are provided below:
Reviewer 1
This is simple but important practical research on fertilizer spreading that can provide meaningfull outcomes to growers who use spreader.
I found some basic mistakes in manuscript. please check whole manuscript and update it.
Comment. Table 3: Please set words allignmnt, if technical parameters are in same line, write in a same sequence.
Response. It was corrected.
Comment. 387,388: Check format of 1000kg...check whole manuscript
Response. It was corrected.
Comment. in discussion part, you should mention granular size and then recommend your results like speed 5km...., or fertilizer....
Response. Taking into account the reviewer's comment, additional information was added in lines 249 and 250.
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors,
The increased interest in the use of organic fertilisers implies research into the possibility of applying them effectively according to the recommended rates. For this reason, your research fits into this research topic and indicates new possibilities in future research.
I have some small comments and suggestion for your manuscript.
Change the order of the figures to be consistent with the citation in the text, e.g.
When your figures are made up of several figures with separate captions, please cite them with precise labels, e.g. Figure 9.
Line 107
How was the volume of the granules measured?
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
First of all, we would like to thank the reviewer for reviewing our manuscript. We appreciate your comments, suggestions, and recommendations to improve the quality of the manuscript. All comments from the reviewers were taken into account and the manuscript was revised. All corrections are highlighted in the text. Responses to the reviewer comments are provided below:
Reviewer 2
The increased interest in the use of organic fertilisers implies research into the possibility of applying them effectively according to the recommended rates. For this reason, your research fits into this research topic and indicates new possibilities in future research.
I have some small comments and suggestion for your manuscript.
Comment. Change the order of the figures to be consistent with the citation in the text, e.g. When your figures are made up of several figures with separate captions, please cite them with precise labels, e.g. Figure 9.
Response. It was corrected.
Comment. Line 107. How was the volume of the granules measured?
Response. According to this comment the corrections are made in lines 103-104 and 109-110.
Reviewer 3 Report
Opinion on agriculture-2404056
The MS: agriculture-2404056; Theoretical and experimental verification of organic granular 2 fertilizer spreading that is interested in a dose fertilizer spreading condition by machinery.
The MS has some comments, which are listed below.
1. Please describe in detail in Section 2.3. Why was the MS built in the experimental design to use different spreaders (-M1001, -M-1201) to compare different doses and speed in dosage norm groups?
2. What is the experimental control group?
3. Please compare/suggest and include references to other feature fertilizer shapes (circle, thick-thin cylinder, short-long cylinder, etc.) and spreading techniques.
4. In terms of fertilizer properties, the spreading particle was most commonly found involving the cylinder shape, density, and mass of the fertilizer particle invoking the distribution. Please defend the MS title in the thoughts in order to avoid overclaiming in some cases.
5. "The purpose of this work is to perform theoretical and experimental comparative studies of the influence of the characteristics and dosage norms of granular fertilizers of poultry manure on the spreading efficiency," states in the abstract. Please include this in the writing. The specifics of the dominant treatment/condition, for example, from Table 5 should be included in the Abs.
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Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
First of all, we would like to thank the reviewer for reviewing our manuscript. We appreciate your comments, suggestions, and recommendations to improve the quality of the manuscript. All comments from the reviewers were taken into account and the manuscript was revised. All corrections are highlighted in the text. Responses to the reviewer comments are provided below:
Reviewer 3
The MS: agriculture-2404056; Theoretical and experimental verification of organic granular 2 fertilizer spreading that is interested in a dose fertilizer spreading condition by machinery.
The MS has some comments, which are listed below.
Comment. 1. Please describe in detail in Section 2.3. Why was the MS built in the experimental design to use different spreaders (-M1001, -M-1201) to compare different doses and speed in dosage norm groups?
Response. The additional information was placed in lines 167-169.
Comment. 2. What is the experimental control group?
Response. Thanks for this comment, but according to the experiment design and size the additional control group was not used. We will keep in mind to use the control group in our future experiments.
Comment. 3. Please compare/suggest and include references to other feature fertilizer shapes (circle, thick-thin cylinder, short-long cylinder, etc.) and spreading techniques.
Response. Taking into account the reviewer's comment, we include references in lines 223-228, 358-360.
Comment. 4. In terms of fertilizer properties, the spreading particle was most commonly found involving the cylinder shape, density, and mass of the fertilizer particle invoking the distribution. Please defend the MS title in the thoughts in order to avoid overclaiming in some cases.
Response. Taking into account the reviewer's comment, additional information was added in lines 248-250.
Comment. 5. "The purpose of this work is to perform theoretical and experimental comparative studies of the influence of the characteristics and dosage norms of granular fertilizers of poultry manure on the spreading efficiency," states in the abstract. Please include this in the writing. The specifics of the dominant treatment/condition, for example, from Table 5 should be included in the Abs.
Response. According to the reviewer’s comment, we included dominant treatment in the Abstract.
