SOIL FERTILITY

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 239, 6 July 1944, Page 4

SOIL FERTILITY

Proposal For Commission

Proposals for the s<‘tiing up of a Soil Fertility and Fertilizers (,’mmnission are to be made to the Government as a result of a discussion and resolution at the anniml meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society in Wellington yesterday. In moving the resolution the president. Mr. L. .1. Wild, said it would not be an interl’ercnre with Hie functions of the Department of Agriculture, but would act more as a co-ordinating body lor all the work in Hie direction of conservation and fertilization. 'l’he following is the resolution which was carried without di-smit : “That this annual nieeHug of (he Royal Agricultural Society is of ihe opinion that Hie time has comp tor (In* setting up <>f a soil fertility and fertilizers commission.. War conditions had demonstrated t 1) the lack of fundamental knowledge of Hie use "f Hine ami fpri ilizer< : (2) the d.?-pcmlom-p of Nvw Zealand on imported phosphate; and CD ihe insecurity of supplies. having regard io world conditions and the need lor r«»i:serv:it ion.

I’arlier. the president had referred to recent oontpoverty as to the benefits «»f the incorporation of sirpenfinp in supcrphosphaD*. and had declared that Hip admixture of one toil of tlie former in three Inns of iho latter produce! an amount of available ph ‘>!»lmle’c<|unl to tour tons of pure superpho-l'balo. Some of Hmsc who had worked up the opposition i<» the incorporation "f serpent inc were not disiuterestd parties.