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Bruce Herald, Volume LV, Issue 67, 1 September 1919, Page 5

FARM MANUE'E FOR ONIONS.

In the horticulutral section of tlio Ruakura Farm of Instruction, during the past season, an experiment was conducted on various kinds of farm manure with onions. Four plots, each 14 yards by eight yards, were 'dressed in April, 1018, as follows (1) Horse manure, (2) fowl manure, (3) pig manure) (4) cow manure —each at the rate of 15 tons per acre. The plots wore immediately dug under and left until the middle of July, when they were lightly forked over. In the middle of August the onions (Straw-coloured Spanish) were transplanted into the plo'ts, basic super at the rate of 2cwt per acre being applied in eacji case at the same time. The crop was harvested in the middle of February, when the fallowing yields were recorded: Pig manure plot, 8321b ; fowl manure plot, 7421b ; horse manure, plot, 64?lb'; cow manure plot, 5881b. The manure was from animals fed undor good average New Zealand'conditions.

, 'A'* correspondent ~ writes':—'Anyone; 'driving to Balclutha from the south last sale day would have seein an intere'sting sight—an elderly'lady driving heir own sheep to the saleyards 1 . 'Soni'etime®' she was at the. back,, of them, aide# by her t-ru&tedi-'dQg, and theto again, "like the shepherds of old," in. front of •.them, plodding, steadily on. On© could'not help admiring , the. shepherdess,, and thinking how was* of man's aid. „ The'lSouthlarid Far mere' Co-operative /Association has had a ; record:turnover, .with".'a' record) profit,"during the"past ••yeiir;';*; It-Jj-is*'' ; un#eawtood ■ that all the .liabilities have ;beeii wiped out. . •