SOIL ANALYSIS.
As to analysing soils in order to ascertain the kind of maruue suitable for each, there are ninny practical difficulties, which 1 have not space to enter upon. It if. in my opinion, an impracticable ides. It commends not itself to the practical man. and is rather a cherished dream of the dilettante. Practice teaches the best manure for each class of soil, and the practice of the neghbourhood is not likely to be far wrong. A pioneer might very properly send soils for analysis, but the farmer who takes a farm in England soon learns in general terms what is the best application Cor his land, and submitting his soil 3 to analysis would be one of the last things to occur to him. unless he had some special cultivation in view. There are cases in which soil analysis would seem necessary, but, generally speaking, it would be a mere waste ■ of money and an'exemplification of J fussinesa.'' John Wrightson in the
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 590, 2 August 1913, Page 2
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165SOIL ANALYSIS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 590, 2 August 1913, Page 2
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