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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19177, 7 December 1927, Page 10

Tho "New Zealand Smallholder 11 <*l cusses in detail what it drill thl !W tery death" of strawberries »»*■; terrorised the commercial Bro#«J recent years, killing the jWUP<Jffl| over extensive patches. pa BMS| says there are two disease and cultural fault. ing that the former, if the tr»t JW t will be revealed in due, writer details the modern jjOTijl ? strawberry production, '7jsitK manuring Bometimes .WTgia* stupendous quality of WW® acre. In the early days, WM ffijTs dust was the principal mWWTj: the quantity rarely per acre, and even if thrtjJWra been useA the insoluble nottWft|jTO of boneduat would haw less. To-day the highly S«WjW phosphate is used in mcrwMHSE and caustic iorms of pottwmpE; chloride (or muriate) of nit. and 80 per cent. potMjrgj.; which contain harmful MWpfl stimulate an oat. crop must act as a poieon when mixture 30 times as *re»t is increased greatly ,n * season by seepage dowflUWHUk into wet hollows. TheT&ril mends apart from a the paustic manures, ft of planting season early autumn (MarchJ"W that the plants may become before the warn weather in spite of the longer hoelM this will entail. t 1