CLAY SOILS
FERMENTATION NECESSARY. The mechanical disposition of a clayey soil -is also deranged by improper treatment, such as trampling or ploughing it in wet weather, and although the soil has a full supply of animal and vegetable manure .in it, yet the mechanical derangement so totally locks up all its energies that the fermentation so necessary is altogether stopped, and complete barrenness is the result. The causes of sterility in soils are opposed to each other; each, therefore, requires a mode of treatment peculiar to its case. The light, sandy and vegetable soils, that are too friable, must be artificially rendered firmer; and the too tenacious clay soils must be made artificially friable and kept so, and be pulverised and mechanically altered before we can expect them to become productive. It is evident if these two soils cpuld be mixed together, the mixture, with a proper quantity of vegetable and animal manure, would make a good productive soil.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1938, Page 3
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