HOW PLANT ROOTS DINE.
AYe have the assurance of the “No" Zealand Smallholder ’ tlia • P an s not ‘eat’ the manures just as « ser e them up. They undergo complex changes in the soil; they become curried. so to speak. This process « most advanced in animal manures, whose mass is permeated with a wondrous complexity of combinations and busy organisms. These organisms—micr - scopical growths are the cooks and waitresses of the plant commissariat Thev teem in animal manure. e - less bountifully in garden soi , and they dwindle to nil in the unfathered subsoil. The marvellous fertilising power of animal mnnure .s partly due to these advantages. Fowl manure, so much despised is of immense gardening value There is cwt per dav produced hy a flock of 1000 hens, and that would pa? a quarter of ’the food bill if pbultrykecpers marketed it properly.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1928, Page 1
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143HOW PLANT ROOTS DINE. Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1928, Page 1
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