MANURING: THE IMPORTANCE OF APPLYING ARTIFICIALS BELOW THE SEEDS.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume VI, Issue 2, 15 February 1913, Page 169

MANURING: THE IMPORTANCE OF APPLYING ARTIFICIALS BELOW THE SEEDS.

The obvious fact that artificial manures are more effective when placed below the seed than when applied on the surface of the soil is being demonstrated at Ruakura Farm of Instruction at the present time in connection with several forage-crop experiments. The effect is most striking with a crop of peas and millet where the manure was applied by means of an ordinary grain-drill below the seed and at the same time, the growth (dense and vigorous) is excellent, being fully three times the weight of the crop grown where the manure was broadcasted on the surface and the seed afterwards drilled in. Not only this, but only half the manure was used where it was drilled in below the seed. In an experimental mangel crop the great advantage of drilling in the manure is also strikingly demonstrated.

Splendid crops of red clover are to be seen throughout the pumice country this season —-in 'the Lichfield, Putaruru, Okoroire, and Rotorua districts. Large well-saved stacks of the valuable red-clover hay are to be seen in many places.