SUPERPHOSPHATE USE
Too Much in New Zealand BENDIGO FARMER’S VIEW Pasture management is a subject in which Jlr. JI. E. O’Brien, of Bendigo, who is touring the Dominion with the Victorian farmers, is keenly interested. There was one word of comment he would like to pass on for what it was worth. To his mind superphosphate was used too extensively in New Zealand. As a result of that it appeared to him that the soil would ultimately be lacking in potash—an essential plant food. There was something in the claim of those who contended that with the excessive use of superphosphate the soil was likely to become “superphosphate sick.” In Victoria superphosphate was used on an average of about one cwt an acre.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 103, 25 January 1933, Page 10
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123SUPERPHOSPHATE USE Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 103, 25 January 1933, Page 10
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