FARM MANURE.
In the horticultural section at Ruakura Farm of Instruction during the past season an experiment was conducted on various kinds of farm manures with onions. Four plots, c-aeh 14 yards by S yards, were dressed in April. 3935, as follows: (1) Horse manure. (2) fowl manure, (3) pig manure, (4) cow manure—each at the rate of 15 tons per acre. The plots were immediately dug under and left until the middle of July, when they were lightly forked over. In the middle of August the onions (straw-coloured Spanish) were transplanted into the plots, basie slag at the rate of 2ewt per acre being applied in each case at the same time. The crop was harvested in the middle of February, when the following yields were recorde ": Pig manure plot. $23.b; fowl manure plot, 7241 b; horse manure plot, 647ib; cow manure plot. SSSIb. The manure was from animals fed under good average New Zealand conditions. , -
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 16 July 1919, Page 3
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