STOCK AND TOP DRESSING.
Thero is a risk of injury to live-stock
if they should happen i to .have access to pastures recently dressed with superphosphate, although; the danger, is-; not very' serious. The olieniist to tho Highland and Agricultural Society reports that some fowls, having died soon after a dressing of superphosphate was applied to grass land to which they had access, a sample of/the manure was sent for analysis. A trace of arsenic was found in sulphate of ammonia, and- a -heavy trace- in superphosphate. Tho chemist adds that the manures which are most likely to contain arsenic are soluble phosphates,. such' as superphosphate; but hitherto no evil results bad been noted, and there is further assurance in the certainty that tho arsenicdoes not pass into the crops dressed with tho manures. ~..'.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 493, 28 April 1909, Page 10
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134STOCK AND TOP DRESSING. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 493, 28 April 1909, Page 10
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