ARTIFICIAL MANURE. '
HOW TO GET THE BEST RETURN. "The fact that artificial 'manures are more efficient when placed Mow the seed than when applied on the surface of the soil is at present being'demonstrated on. tho Ruakura Farm of Instruction in connection with several' forage crop experiments, ; The effect is'most'striking, with a crbp of peas and millot, where the manure 'was applied with an ordinary grain drill below the seed, and at, .the same time. The growth is reputed to bo excellent, being fully three ..times the weight of the crop grown where the manure was broadcasted on the surface arid the seed afterwards drilled' in. Further, only half the 'manure was used where it. was' drilled in . below tl'.3 wed. The advantage of drilling in the manure is al?o ■strikingly demonstrated in au experiment mangold crop. . '■
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Dominion, 24 February 1913, Page 8
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