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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 10 March 1923, Page 3

Convincing Evidence of the Superiority of Superphosphate Extract from the N.Z. Journal of Agriculture, 20th May, 1922, page 285, giving results of Pasture Top- | Dressing Experiments conducted by the Department of Agriculture at Te Kuiti:— The fertilisers were applied on Bth and 9th September last. \ These dates were; late for slowly soluble fertilisers such as raw rock i \ » phosphate and bisic slag, but this was unavoidable without missing a season, as the offer of a field was only made to the Department in August last< ; ;; . . The field /was shut up in October^ and cut and weighed as hay in January. jThe weighing occupied two days, and was completed on 16th January, The following table gives thefirst season's results after the grass was made into ha^,and the yields thus recorded':—r ■■*** 7 ■ ■ <«• '-. ■*. r * ■ ■ ' 7 . ■'"',' | - Yield per acre I ,;;7 (Percentage Fertiliser used. j Amount per Mean average] Percent- 1 Increase j Acre. of three j age yield j due to : ■• .'*<, I' '-. •■ plots j -.'...-' j "Fertiliser. Check ~. |No manure 23 2 20 100.0 Basic slag .. .. I 3 .cwt. 29 0 16 123.0 23.0 Buperphosphfire ..] 3 cwt. 41 019 173.8 -73.8 Eock phosphate .. 3 cwt. 29 1 3 123.6 23.6 «= Superphosphate .. ; 3 cwt. Ground limestone ..| 1 ton { 41 2 17 j 175.9 ,75.9 Bock phosphate .. J 3 ewt. * 7 Ground limestone .. f 1 ton ( 27 1 17 115.7 15.7 1 ' QUICKEST and BEST RESULTS obtained from SUPERPHOSPHATE Every unit oi Water Soluble Phosphatein Supers phosphate is available as plant food immediately after . ' application. Fj'l 3i> ply of Superphosphatej(all grades) available from all Merchant* / and Storekeepers, or direct from the Manufacturers, I ' ' * ■■ -. '