SOIL FERTILITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 97, 24 April 1940, Page 13

SOIL FERTILITY.

FOOD VALUE LEAGUE. Concern at the way in which the fei tilitv of the Xew Zealand soil was be.ing exhausted was expressed bv Mr. H. H. Teiuient. in an address on "Nature's Methods of Building and Ma i lit a iniii" a 11 ea 1 1 ll \ and 1* er ti 1 e Soil, at a meeti n 1 r of the. Women's Food Value League last night. I'lie speaker added that, as far a< could be seen, those in authoritv were not taking effective steps to studv the problem and to take measure* to cliei-k the c\ha notion before it betame (Hit of )|;111«I. Interesting points were brought up during the "question" period which followed Mr. TcmicutVi address. ||~ _ ;I j,| that humus provided food lor rank growth, but did not allow plants to resist disease. It was necessary to add animal matter to the hu;<ius heap. Sin,-e IMI per cent of our animal and offal ma mile w a<- Indng exported to countries which needed it less than we did. but were willing to pay more for it. our own soil was being allowed to suffer. Mr. J ennent strongly recommended the Use of t-eaweed for the production of ilisea.se-free tomatoes.