FARMYARD MANLTRE V. DISSOLVED BONES.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2081, 3 January 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)

FARMYARD MANL T RE Y. DISSOLVED BONES.

Last January I dressed a very small plain, or sheep run (21 acres), with about 14 loads of farmyard manure (not very rotten) on 4 acrts. The rest of the pasture was sown about three weeks later with special dissolved bones at the rate of 4 cwt. per acre. The effect of the first dressing was soon visible, and the 4 acres were distinctly marked out from the rest, showing where ttie manure was applied. As this result remained unchanged till the beginning of April, and the artificial manure theia appeared to have been used in vain, judgment was given in favor of the yard manure. After tins, however, we had some warmer wgaiUer, with fine grovvuig showers, which soon altered matttere, aud the line of

demarcation became each day less distinct till at length the superiority of the bone became manifest. I have now (June 19) got a most luxuriant mixture of grasses (chiefly red and white clovers) from the portion sown with artificial ni inure. On the 4-acre piece there is scircely any clover, and onlj* a poor share < f rye gras* nnd other common varieties, f have used dissolved, bones on a good di il of grass this year, and the result in etch chic is astonishing. My land is ash >ng loamy clay. I suppose the season lias had a great deal to do with this succt^s, nnd the exhaiwted pasture no doubt owes its renovation more to the clouds than to the agency of manure alone. — " Yorkshireman."