The Best Manure.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 170, 18 September 1886, Page 1

The Best Manure.

Clover seed is the best; manure a farmer can uso. All plants draw much of their food from the atmosphere, and of those used in agriclture none are exceeded by clover in the large proportion of nutriment thus derived. In this rei-spect other leguminous crops are much like red clover. Here we include all the clovers, vetches, beans, peas, sainfoin, lupins, and lucerne or alfalfa. To keep up the fertility of our soil we must restore to it phosphoric acid, potash, nitrogen and other, substances which are found in ' farm crops. Of the three valuable and very important substances just named, nitrogen is the most precious and costly to, obtain. In various places there are abundant supplies of potash and phosphoric acid. - As may be said these are "in si^ht." Agricultural chemists 'are now studying, on the problem of the future supply of nitrogen for agricultural purposes. £>o far, olover seems to be the important factor in the problem.

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