Salt As Manure.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 356, 10 February 1937, Page 3

Salt As Manure.

(1 Quite apart from its being indis- -- pensable to the physiological pror cesses of animals, and in addition to n its utility in imparting tastiness to d food, salt is.- a valuable manure. To r many this statement will seem il strange, for we do not find this sub e stance lit ted among the usual f-r--y tilisers employed in grassland and ). crop farming. Nevertheless, it is unn doubtedly a manure of great efficacy t in improving both the quality and d quantity of the yield, of such crops i- as grass, wheat, barley, oats, turnips. J mangels, and potatoes. On account s of the need of lime and phosphorus rl in the Dominion, the utility of salt p has been largely overlooked. That it - will repay attention and experiment r may be gathered from the experi- •- ence of a farmer who employed it r not as a fertiliser, but as a weedkiller to destroy an area of blackf berry. Using the waste salt from a f casings factory, he sowed it heavily t on the infested portion of his farm. In the following season, where the . blackberry had been, he had a crop of grass which for yield and quality 1 surpassed that on any other part of j the farm. Needless to say, the stock 1 soon showed him that he had given them nothing so tasty for many a • long day.