NECESSITY FOR MANURES

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12063, 27 May 1920, Page 6

NECESSITY FOR MANURES

In hia address to the Farmers’ Conference at Feilding, Mr G. L. Marshall, president, said Production must be increased and phosphate manures are urgently needed to help us to got the best results from the soil. With the present high price of land it is evident that the very best methods of cultivation must be employed and I should like the Agricultural Department to start an illustration farm on each class of land, to show what can he produced per acre by employing the best methods of improving the producing capacity of the “mil. Lime has a wonderful effect on many soils, and on clay soils the growing of clover, peas or beans increases the fertility of the land, making the application of large quantities of manures unnecessary. Seeds of ail binds are very expensive to huj', and I hope in future more seeds will be grown locally. It seems that the time has come when we ought to try to manufacture more of our primary products hero instead of exporting it ait in the raw state. Sorely the time has come whan we should make all the blankets and cloth we require ere instead of paying a high price for imported woollen goods. Many of ns wonder how it is that wo have to piay about thirteen guineas for a snit of clothes, when we know that wo only get about ten shillings for the wool which is required to make the suit. How is tho difference made up? It seems that an enormous proht must be made in some of the process- s that the wool goes through. A company is being floated in Wanganui to maaufact. 1 ? wool, and I believe another companj 7 is starting in the Wairarapa, so that evidently tiie public is waking up to the fact that it is time w•? moved in this direction.’’