VALUE OF WOOD ASHES
Wood ashes are a valuable manure, containing potash and soda beside other inorganic elements of plant food. 1 hey are well adapted for mixing witu guano and are also excellent by themselves. A bushel of wood ashes will weigh about 501 b. and will contain potash and soda to the extent of 4.61 b. and small quantities of other elements. An excellent substitute for wood ashes may be made by mixing muriate of potash (91b.), phosphate ol lime (61b.) and slaked lime (351 b. The roots of plants, weeds, etc., aie frequently burned and the ashes applied to the soil, but as all the organic matter and nitrogen is lost by this means, it is more economical to form them into a compost with earth and quicklime or other substances which destroy their vitality. Thoroughly decomposed to a state of vegetable mould they make an excellent substance for horticultural purposes. “I hear that Jenkins and his wife had a row over the kind of car they decided to buy; he wanted an open one and she a closed one. Anyhow, the incident is now closed.” “So is the car —I saw her in it this morning.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 82, 7 April 1934, Page 13
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200VALUE OF WOOD ASHES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 82, 7 April 1934, Page 13
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