FARM HINTS.
It is just as essential that the best seed should be carefully selected and planted as it is that the best bred animals should be secured in order to produce valuable animals. And it is just as necessary that the soil should be put in proper condition to grain successfully as it is that animal life should be properly cared for. It is also just as proper that soil should possess the elements of growth as it is necessary to furnish animals with good and nutritious food. Soil half cultivated can no more give up plant food than can the hay in the loft feed an animal that cannot reach it. Vegetation makes no use of the elements of the soil until the elements become soluble, and this does not occur except when the conditions are favorable. The farmer should give proper thought to this subject, and by doing so he will be led to study the nature of growth as well as the supply that produces it.
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Patea Mail, 7 June 1882, Page 3
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170FARM HINTS. Patea Mail, 7 June 1882, Page 3
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