IMPORTED MANURES.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. In regard to the discussions which had taken place about further inspection of bones from India having led to increased prices for manure, the Minister for Agriculture, in an interview to-day, said that the regulation it was wished to impose in order to give additional protection to New Zealand farmers against the intro-, duction of diseases had not had any influence on prices. It had recently been discovered that there were germs of malignant oedema in some manure after it had been sterilised. If germs of that disease had access to the sterilised material the germs and anthrax were also liable to be picked up from the soil, or by means of the wind. The risk of contamination after sterilisation was not jreally very great, but the extra precaution was necessary. Manure, however, was now coming along, it was believed, under better circumstances, and it had not increased beyond the normal prices in the market.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 148, 23 June 1911, Page 9
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