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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 24 March 1923, Page 9

Convincing Evidence of the '{■ Superiority of Superphosphate Extract from the N.Z. Journal oi Agriculture, 20th : . M ?y, 1922, page 285, giving results of Pasture TopI * 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 Phosphate and basic slag, but this was unavoidable without missing a season, as the offer of a field was only made to the Department : * m August last. c ■■■■'.■ r£ . r&ie e^ ws>s shut up in October, an<l cut and weighed as hay 111 January. The weighing occupied two days, and was completed i- on 16th January. The following table gives the first season's results 4 * «*ter the grass was made into hay, and the yields thus recorded:— *» - / ~——— — —— ——— . isk- tn x-»- I'ield per acre I Pereeuta^e £r * Fertihser used. Amount per Mean average Percent- Increase j^Sr "t - Acre. of three age yield due to v plots | Fertiliser it " " Check .. ~. No manure 23 2 20 100.0 i* * * *asic alaS t " " 3 cwt. 29 016 123.0 23 0 Superphosphate .. 3 cwt. 41 019 173.8 738 -J - ' *^ ck phosphate .. 3 cwt. 29 1 3 123 6 23 6 -. - v Superphosphate .. 3 C wt. *>?, Ground limestdne .. 1 ton 41 2 17 175 9 759 iC, /■* ' Bock Phosphate .. 3 cwt. ■^- /- I Ground limestone .. 1 ton , 27 1 17 115.7 15 7 ?T"*< , j ■••:•.■••■•.■■'. ■ • 3| *: .. i 1 . WWmi and BEST RESULTS obtained from SUPERPHOSPHATE ftC^l"*"" " ■.■:•':■■ ' ~" 9 i lift^jf unit of Water Soluble Phosphate In Super-. oW^^ available as plant food immediately after 6i£W" applicatipn. 4C?i%^pPP^y of Superphosphate (all grades) available from all Merchants «»^ Storekeepers, or direct from the Manufacturers.