COWYARD MANURE
Sir, —Your leading article of Saturday will be much appreciated by those fighting for public recognition of the urgency to compost organic wastes. Only this, your article deals almost exclusively with cowyard manure. There is the manure from the pigstyes—next to fowls, the richest yet. There is the sheep manure under the gratings of thousands of woolsheds and the thousands of bales of rotting hay often finally burnt after a wet season. There is the city garbage wastefully dumped and numerous industrial wastes, such as flax strippings, sawdust and brewery grains—all representing something taken from the soil by which New Zealand is just so much poorer. Some replacement has to be—so for another twist oi the taxation screw to pay subsidies on slag from Britain, nitrate from Chin, or phosphate from Nauru and eventually recouped by sweating still more an overworked and grudging soil. — Yours, etc., y T SHAND. October 6, 1952.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26855, 7 October 1952, Page 2
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