MANURE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9651, 7 July 1919, Page 6

MANURE.

(To me Sditou "GvAumA^r,")

Sir,—ln reading the report of tke A. and P. Association meeting in your paper a few days ago I notice that Mr John Grigg advocated the uae of manure. I think that will do for my text. I have sold my farm, so perhaps 1 shall not want to sow any more manure, but I shall go on to the end of; ni3 r days preaching ''manure." Some tell me that manure is no good, but I i have proved otherwise. I heard a man ; say last year that he would not sow i manure if it were carted to his place. Yet I notice that this season he is usJBg manure. The result of no manure was very poor. I maintain if some of our enterprising farmers, before this lovely rain we hay had, were to have sown two hundred-weight of manure per acre j. they would make three blades of grass grow instead of one. Of course there is manure and manure. I wish we could get some of the oldfashioned phosphates, or you can call "N. Belgium" now if you, like. I know we would get far better results than from the present class of manure. I rockoned where they're giving us 25 per cent carbonate of lime and one is only sowing. 751bs manure,, what results are expected . from this quantity? As for carbonate of lime, any scientist will tell you that it is not a manure. I. believe* \i you were to put on five hundred-weight to the acre it might be beneficial in time to come; but not as a quick-acting manure. I was talking to a manager of one of. our experimental farms, and I said "What results arc. you getting from lime?" He just shook his head. Ask some of the most enterprising, farmers their opinion of manure. The verdict will be "Ka~ pal!" Go to Nicoll Bros.; they sow manure very extensively, and I am. told that the crops average' over forty bushels. -Mr William Anderson,; who has just sold out, will tell you he attributes his success partly to manures.' J am sure the beautiful stock that he sold were a credit to him. As I said once before, we have sown hundreds of tons of manure in the North with most satisfactory reaull^