BONE DUST AND WHEAT.

Patea Mail, 12 April 1881, Page 4

BONE DUST AND WHEAT.

An Indiana farmer sends to the Practical Farmer, the following result of experiments with bone dust and wood ashes on wheat :—“ I applied 600 pounds of dry, unleachcd ashes to the acre, and sowed wheat on that, and the result was only six bushels to the acre. Adjoining this tract I drilled in 200 pounds of bone dust, and three acres produced 20 bushels to the acre, being an increased yield of 14 bushels over the tract sown with wood ashes. The following year I used 200 pounds of bone dust on the plat on which I had previously sown 600 pounds of .ashes and the result was 40 bushels of wheat to the acre, being double what the bone produced alone. This experiment satisfied me that ashes alone nor bone alone would give me a yield that paid to my satisfaction. The acre with ashes yielded six bushels, the acre with bone dust yielded 20 bushels, but when the two were combined I harvested 40 bushels. This showed what experiments and a small expenditure of money will do for the progressive farmer’. ”

A northern paper says—The Easter review at Waikato is going to be a bread-and-butter affair after all—tea and turnout and blank cartridge—and no mistake, for there will be no ball! It is expected that fully 1,000 men will march into camp, and it is intended that the whole force, officers and all, shall remain under canvas from the Friday to the Monday.