Tbo value of pasture for fattening swino lias been slimni in a number of tests conducted at agricultural experiment stations in America. Forage crops are essential to profitable pork production, whether it be the maintenance of the breeding herd, growing the pigs or fattening pigs tor market. With a variety of such crops to choose from, we have one or more pasture crops well adapted to practically every section of the country, and some forage crop is available for practically any time of the normal growing season, stales' Hoard s Dairyman. , A heavy dressing of superphosphate say. from .‘i to- 1 cwt. or of equal parts of (superphosphate and honedust, its recommended as a suitable potato manure. You could use sulphate of ‘ammonias which is a nitrogenous manure, with the superphosphate, but experiments have shown that phosphatie manures are ahead of nitrogenous manures for potatoes. You- should 1 allow several weeks to elapse after applying the lime.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3143, 13 November 1922, Page 2
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