WHY CROPS ARE A FAILURE
IMPORTANT FOOD When crops are poor and unsatisfactory, and we are dissatisfied with the poor response of our efforts at cultivation, we say the soil must he unfertile. All unfertile soils are wanting in the essential elements of plant food. That is phosphates, nitrates and potash, the golden tripod of the horticultural world. At the same time the soil will be unfertile even if these elements are there in their right proportions, unless lime is present, and the reason why we have previously stated: That lime disentegrates the chemical elements, helps to dissolve some which do not easily dissolve with water alone, and thus assist the microbes, whose essential work is to provide food for the plants. The correct proportion of the chemical elements for an even balanced manure are as follow: Phosphat'es 12 parts, potash 8 parts and nitrates 3 parts. Lime Is also needed to stimulate action. Without lime there is no success.
Clean and well tilled gardens are the best precautionary measures ' to use against slugs and snails. The lazy gardener eats up his profits iu resorting to various concoctions for their eradication when the remedy is in his own hands.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 28
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