FARM AND DAIRY.
SCHOOL AGRICULTURE. EXPERIMENTAL TESTS. Reporting to yesterday’s meeting of the Taranaki Education Board, the headmaster of the Hawera Technical School gave the following particulars of the final experiments for the last year;— Mangels (manure used, Gillander’s mixture) —Sutton’s Long Red, yield 30 tons scwt. per acre; N.Z. grown Long Red, 28 tons lewt. per acre; Sutton’s Sugar, 14 tons 3cwt. per acre; Sutton’s Golden Tankard, 12 tons 2cwt. per acre; Sutton’s Prine Winner, 10 tons 14cwt, per acre. Second experiment, variety used Sutton’s Long' Red. Yield per acre; Super, 27 tons 8 cwt; Super and bone dust, 34 tons lOcwt.; Super and Ephos, 25 tons 13cwt.; Super, Ephes, and pot. sulp., 22 tons 3cwt.; Super, Ephos and amm. sul., 24 tons llcwt.; control (no manure), 6 tons; Basic Super, 20 tons 15 cwt.; Basic Slag, 12 tons 4cwt.; Guano, 23 tons scwt.; bone dust, 27 tons 9cwt.; control (no manure), 16 tons Bcwt.; Gillander’s mixture, 29 tons ITcwt. On the whole the experiments have been nf some- considerable value to the boys taking the class, though the difficulties met with owing to the overgrowth of weeds during the school summer vacation have demonstrated the necessity for some assistance during that period.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 July 1921, Page 2
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204FARM AND DAIRY. Taranaki Daily News, 14 July 1921, Page 2
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