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Claim 1

A METHOD OF UNFORMLY CONTROLLABLY APPLYING FINELY DIVIDED TRACE ELEMENT METERIALS TO MEDIA POSITIVELY AFFECTED THEREBY, WHICH METHOD INVOLVES APPLYING TO SAID MEDIA A PLURALITY OF FREE-FLOWING COATED GRANULES, EACH GRAMULE COMPRISING A SMALL NON-FLOWING COATED GRANULES, EACH RIER BASE GRANULE HAVING AN ADHERENT COATING OVER THE SURFACE THEREOF, SAID COATING INCLUDING FINELY DIVIDED TRACE ELEMENT METERIALS AS ONE CONSTITUENT UNIFORMLY DISPERSED THROUGHOUT A TACK-FREE NON-HYSROSCOPIC ABRASIBE-RISISTANT FILM-FORMING BINDER AS A SECOND CONSTITUENT, ONE OF SAID COATING CONSTITUENTS BEING ESSENTIALLY INSOLUBLE IN WATER, SAID BASE GRANULE HAVING A SIZE OF AT LEAST ABOUT 60 MESH AND COMPRISING A MAJOR PROPORTION OF THE COAT GRANULE, SAID BINDER BEING PRESENT IN AN AMOUNT PERMITING HANDLING OF A MASS OF THE COAT GRANULES WITHOUT SUBSTANTIAL CHALKING AND WITHOUT SUBSTANTIALLY WEARING AWAY THE COATING BY MUTAL ABROSION OF THE GRANULES, SAID TRACE ELEMENT MATERIALS FUTHER BEING AVAILABLE TO ACTION BY SOIL SULOTIONS, AND AT LEAST SLOWLY SOLUBLE IN IONIC FROM IN SAID SOLUTIONS, THE TRACE EMEMENTS OF SAID FINELY DIVIDED TRACE ELEMENT METERIALS BEING PRESENT IN AN AMOUNT OF AT LEAST ABOUT 2% BY WEIGHT OF THE COATED GRANULE, THE RESULTING COATED GRANULE BRING SUBSTANTIALLY NON-HYDROSCOPIC AND OF A SIZE OF AT LEAST ABOUT 48 MESH.

Claim 2

A METHOD OF UNFORMLY CONTROLLABLY APPLYING FINELY DIVIDED TRACE ELEMENT METERIALS TO MEDIA POSITIVELY AFFECTED THEREBY, WHICH METHOD INVOLVES APPLYING TO SAID MEDIA A PLURALITY OF FREE-FLOWING COATED GRANULES, EACH GRAMULE COMPRISING A SMALL NON-FLOWING COATED GRANULES, EACH RIER BASE GRANULE HAVING AN ADHERENT COATING OVER THE SURFACE THEREOF, SAID COATING INCLUDING FINELY DIVIDED TRACE ELEMENT METERIALS AS ONE CONSTITUENT UNIFORMLY DISPERSED THROUGHOUT A TACK-FREE NON-HYSROSCOPIC ABRASIBE-RISISTANT FILM-FORMING BINDER AS A SECOND CONSTITUENT, ONE OF SAID COATING CONSTITUENTS BEING ESSENTIALLY INSOLUBLE IN WATER, SAID BASE GRANULE HAVING A SIZE OF AT LEAST ABOUT 60 MESH AND COMPRISING A MAJOR PROPORTION OF THE COAT GRANULE, SAID BINDER BEING PRESENT IN AN AMOUNT PERMITING HANDLING OF A MASS OF THE COAT GRANULES WITHOUT SUBSTANTIAL CHALKING AND WITHOUT SUBSTANTIALLY WEARING AWAY THE COATING BY MUTAL ABROSION OF THE GRANULES, SAID TRACE ELEMENT MATERIALS FUTHER BEING AVAILABLE TO ACTION BY SOIL SULOTIONS, AND AT LEAST SLOWLY SOLUBLE IN IONIC FROM IN SAID SOLUTIONS, THE TRACE EMEMENTS OF SAID FINELY DIVIDED TRACE ELEMENT METERIALS BEING PRESENT IN AN AMOUNT OF AT LEAST ABOUT 2% BY WEIGHT OF THE COATED GRANULE, THE RESULTING COATED GRANULE BRING SUBSTANTIALLY NON-HYDROSCOPIC AND OF A SIZE OF AT LEAST ABOUT 48 MESH.