SULPHATE OF IRON AS A MANURE

Northern Advocate, 18 February 1926, Page 7

SULPHATE OF IRON AS A MANURE

A correspondent in reference to this oft-discussed chemical, writes as follows:—Most treatises on manuring, when they come to sulphate of iron, become vague or frankly say that little is known, but no doubt it is a tonic and where clovers and lucerne are concerned, both tonic and stimulant. With tomatoes it js, like sulphate of potash, antidisease, and with potatoes I am informed and believe that 0 cwt to the acre will obviate all likelihood of blight—but it is about gardening I wanted to tell you. Last year the sweet peas were poor in colour, especially some purple or maroon coloured peas; so I loosened the soil, put a handful or two of sulphate of iron in a bucket of water and melted it, and watered them —soaked them with six or seven gallons to small clump. Talk about chloropbil and colour; the change came within three days; every colour improved, even the foliage, but the purples, which bad been so miserably