TO CORRESPONDENTS
Manures (Besinnar).—Guano, blood, or any other quick dissolving manure, is not so lasting as litter manure. The quick dissolving manures, if used in moistt weather and while the crops are growing, will net at once, and will be expended the same season. Stable manure or all litter manures, if applied in a green state, will last one or more yeara in the soil, according to the quantity used. If you apply litter manure it takes a long time for the rain or moisture to dissolve it. and it _3 only as they are dissolved that they aro of any uso to the plants. The minute mouth of the root can only take them up when they attain a liquid form. Whon all the litter manure is rotted to the consistency of soil, there is still something, in tho debris which will give o_f food. I would, by all means, advise you to use quick dissolving manures when you intend to hurry a crop. But where you intend to crop year after year use litter manure, and then you will find that every season your soil i 3 improving under this treatment.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 268, 9 November 1895, Page 3 (Supplement)
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