WORN-OUT PASTURES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8345, 4 February 1913, Page 2

WORN-OUT PASTURES

BASIC SLAG DRESSINGS. “Will basic slag restore worn-out pasture, and what is the best way to apply it? Will grass take if surface-sown with the slag? The pasture has partly gone back to native grasses, and is overrun with daisies and other weeds. Tho land is too broken to plough, except in patches.” The foregoing questions from a Woodvilla farmer to the Department of Agriculture are answered ,as follows in , this mouth's “Journal” :—“Basic slag will not completely restore worn-out pasture, but will bo a material help towards that bud. The best way is to broadcast tho manure at tho rate of -fcwt dr scwt per acre. Slag should be applied in the late autumn or early winter. If land is of a light sandy nature, sulphate of potash at the rate of 3001 b or 3001b.per aero can be profitably applied, in conjunction with slag. That mixture has been, fotiiid beiieficial. Grass seed woifld Ifo greatly benefited if surface sown with. slag. After sowing it will be advisable to keep stock off till the herbage ,has been washed by raiil. There is said to bo a j>ossibility of stock being endangered by gtazing on pasture so top-dressed.”