NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 336, 23 January 1889, Page 3

NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

Fertilisers for Potatoes. — "If you would raise a large field of potatoes, by the trench method," says the litiral Neio Yorker- " use not less than 1,200 pounds of a high, grade fertiliser to the aci'e. By this we mean a fertiliser that shall analyse five per cent, of ammonja, 10 per cent, of phosphoric acid and eight per cent, of potash or thereabouts. And it is our belief that the yield will be increased if the above food constituents are present in different forms, j For example, we would have the nitrogenous constituents to consist of nitrate oi soda, sulphate of ammonia and blood, which are soluble in the order named. For potash wo would have sulphate, carbonate, etc., using for the carbonate unleached ashes. For phosphoric acid we would have bone superphosphate, rawbone flour, Peruvian guano, as also the phosphate furnished by the ashes. To furnish just what the crop needs, as it needs it and an abundance of it, is the first consideration in raising maximum yields." Machine for Cleaning Grain.— Carr and Co., 88 Elizabeth-street, Sydney, exhibit in tho New South Wales Court, at the Melbourne Exhibition, J. F. Wilson's Patenjb Black Qat Extracting Machinp, all rights of which they have purphased. ' The machine rpmoyes from wheat and oats all black pats, dopt sepd, sand and defeptive wheat graips, Its aption fc simple, the dirty portion pf raided graip, passing aver a feed roller, falls on- to another roller, which is arranged in such a manner that it catches and carrier all black oats and foreign matter 1 away, leaving the clean wheat to pass out at the opposite end of the machine.