NITRO-BACTERINE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10423, 14 September 1911, Page 5

NITRO-BACTERINE

.. WONDERFUL CULTURE. | Hue value of nitro-bacterine as a, oullfcure for promoting the growth of laUi kinds of canops and .shrubs., 18' every year becoming more widely recognised not only .by farmers in. New : Zealand, .but in .other countries, j where scientific agriculture is. largely I '•carried, on. Mir John Wingatte, of Hi; gjh Street,•' iMasterton, 'who i«s an emtJhnisaastLc .advocate of the u®& of | thje lOuUfcune, has had it .tried by numerous iseJtftileirsi in it'll© Wairarapa, wirffo most successful re&ulte. The cultuire is aliso being used 1 most suo- ' oe&sfully in the South Isliand, and in this connection Mr Wingalte has just received a letter fron. a settler there, a, ifew extaucits from which should prove interesting reading to settlers in this distirict-: .We sowed! 20 acres of turnips and treated the seed with, rtihe oullture.' . Tlhey were eowin after >Ohrisstma&, and we gave them j three owt. c.f artificial' manure, but j I whether it was th© extra, manure. or ' • the bacterine that forced them on I cannot say, but I .never saw turnips j grow like them. We wjere sorry afterwaixJs tihiat we did not swv a few driUis with seedi, not treated. Hie peas and .beans we ihiad in the garden were growing row about with seed that "had been treated, andi the other with mo culture, and the treated seed wiere as> goodu again as the otla- - er. We sowedfcsome cabbage seed: in . a bo*, and ihalf of ;itibteii^;we> 1 treated' with, bacterine, and! 'tUi&».otter '.(liiaSfs just watered titoem. The result: w»a> ••thttt. the cultured .plants were (heady to pliant out weeikg before the other ones, and were ever so much hiealthier. We are sowing down a 50 acre paddiock in clover. We ihiave hia.lif of it sown mow and the rest wall be sowtn this> week. We have treated the seed; with baoterine, but will leave a atrip that ha® , not be©te. ; treated, and see how it dtose« this .season. We are laliso sowing 50 acres* of pe.as unider .similar conditions., and will ilet you know the resiuUt. ,thss 'season. The results, of .the use of the culture are also to Ib& seen at the residence of iMir Denhy, 1/amsdowne, Masterton.