SULPHUR AS A MANURE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 551, 19 March 1913, Page 3

SULPHUR AS A MANURE.

Considering how long sulphur has heen used on plants as a fungicide, it is strange that the fertilising opera tion now attributed to it as the result of recent experimpnts, should not have been discovered earlier. In France M. Boullanger has tried flowers of sulphur upon beet, beans, celery, potatoes, siach, and other crops, and has found the yields higher than those of the same crops grown without sulphur. Stranger still, he found the yields greater than those of crops dressed with a complete mixture of artificial manures. The best results of all, however, were obtained when sulphur and artificial manures we used in combination. But the sulphur alone increased the produce from 10 to 40 per csnt. As these were not experiments, they do not afford any "information as to the quantity of sulphur to be applied to a given space of on ground; but the quantity was very small, and another French experimenter tried the effect uf residues obtained in the purification of coal gas in such quantities as to apply 921b of sulphur to an acre of land, and the results were very favourable on mangolds, swedes, common turnips, and parsnips.