USE OF FERTILISERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 December 1930, Page 10

USE OF FERTILISERS

(To the .Editor) Sir.—The Hon. A. J. Murdoch, Minister for Agriculture, made reference to the above subject in his able address at the Show at Richmond on Saturday. Figures showing the increased quantity of fertilisers used in New Zealand year by year, the statement of known cases where farmers have been able to make more off 50 acres than they formerly could make olf 200 acres, "seemed to some almost unbelievable. The writer of this letter can vouch for the correctness of the statements mads by the Hon. Minister and from personal experience can say that the correct use of fertiliser has boen the making of many districts now producing the most butterfat per acre. At the Richmond grounds on Friday and Saturday several lectures to farmers on this most important question were delivered. The methods of applying the fertilisers were also demonstrated by practical experts who have many years' experience in grass land fanning. Many of the. leading farmers in the Nelson province are obtaining good results at present from top dressing, but there is need for a great deal of improvement in the methods of applying the fertilisers to get proper results from the land and stock. i Like the Minister for Education the Minister for Agriculture is a thoroughgoing student of his job, and when lie j made his speech on this subject ho had as usual, tlie interest of his country at heart, and f would smreest that tlic ■ farmers of this wonderfully productive province take heed and study the figures mentioned and take every opportunity of increasing the output of their individual blocks, whether lar«e or small. —I am, etc., C. A. J. RANDRUP. Nelson, 2nd December.