WORK AT WAERENCA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 409, 19 January 1909, Page 3

WORK AT WAERENCA.

FERTILITY ON POOR SOILS. Mr.: -Kirk;. states ;jtaat;tlio: populanty; of th& 6xperinient'farms : is- still : , increasing.'; In• • a 'recent ' trip •to the . ; ■:. north ;he- wats/ specially .-witn 'tho^re-- ; suits' of ..th;o : €x'periments ;of manager' of Waerenga on, tlie'growingv of oats/Thbre .wer© two oat-: crops on the-poor Waorenga soil -. tHat . would do - credit 'tp : £25 per acre . land/ ; . This ■ result ' had achieved ' at . quite a small expenditure for fertilisers. Two ■fertilisers;-' wereused,,; ; one-. consisting of ya. mixture of- shark-manure and .basic' slag,- and other of' a •mixture';of . shark'manure and . -far ■ as 1 could be : judged from ; ; appearances,;-there; was very- little difference '' HndeM.'between v^ the-^twoYcrops.:, ; -A number of experiments l were also pro- ,• ceeding • witH'-'the: objectVo.f securing' perman- > ent: grass -on-'this ;land,' which persons who * formerly ; ;, knew. the . 'country- • declared 'would never hold permanent grass. Many'of : the tests : were: extremely'promising, and Mr. . .. ,;Kuk;'ha4'-rio;doubt that ■ the Division of Ex-'penment'Stations,witH-the. assistance'"of.'the 1 v manager'; J would before long be able ;,to ;\.announcß. ; that^ : they ! had;Becuredrpermanent . grass on-this poor, land, < which < a few- years ; .ag6;'cpuld haye been bought'at about 10s. per acre. " > < >