Page 3 Advertisements Column 3

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 150, 27 February 1915, Page 3

BASIC SHAG. \ AS A TURNIP MANURE. .Every new preparation which coraOS ti on as an auxiliary to the farmer, lias its' difficulties before it can establish itself. So far as my experience has gone, I do not think basic slag should be used quite alone, as it is not of a sufficiently complete nature to answer •the full purpose artificial manures are intended to effect. In my experience with plots embracing a erpresentation of all the mixtures or preparations used I found that the slag t-urnip manure, which we always used alongside the special'turnip manui'v preparation, did not pro'duce the same .weight as did. Hie other, and that it did not approach, the ( average of the other preparations. But there was one thing which I always not iced, and that was that the bulbs were of good quality. The plants seemed to fall behind at the brairding or early stag* , °f development, but they matured ea\ *h'> ar| d they also had a nice small head. \ The mixture contained much nitrogen an d pota«h, along with insoluble phosphate. I heleiev that the brairding being slow did not affect the puality of the plants adversely, and that the Insoluble phosphates were so constituted jalong with the farmyard manure and -the other things to produce good quality, but without a certain proportion, of weight of crop. I have tried alongside this a plot containing a small proportion of superphosphate or soluble phosphate, with the resmlt that it added considerably to the weight of the crop by this change, ,so that eC small quantity of superphosphate is an advantage. Superphosphate, although g-ood at sending up braird, probably at the expense of quality, can only, if at all, be' judiciously be used alone under exceptional circumstances, having the reputation of introducing trouble in the bulbs c v f various sorts, while basic slag is credited with preventing trouble. I believe th it the reason for tikis is that the action' is slow, and it js&eets the needs of the plants at the later stages of its development, so that the plants make a substantial start, and «wuimn> to have natural support on to the maturing stage. —"W. "Wilson, in the ".Stock-breeder. 1 -"

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