PORTABLE AND EFFICACIOUS MANURE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 534, 17 February 1876, Page 3

PORTABLE AND EFFICACIOUS MANURE.

Silt,— Cincinnati^ btg« to preiont his best .ompliuients to Mr James Kuiioiuid,n, and regrets that Ue mnnot coin ply with hu polite request te drop hit) uoro-de-pluuie for ttiu bi npm reason: ' tli*L nothing would be gained by bis ho doing. Mr James Kuneimau has suited publicly at tiw Cambridge tfaimcra' Club— so v, is leported in the columns of the Ti&ita — " Ihal Artilieul Mauuio m to bj pielerreU because it id more " portable aud tflicacious." Tlie Waikato farmers iteked— thruugn Cinunnatiu— Tery respectfully for tlie uiu.e »ud description of thi6 valuable m,«imre. Mr James liunciuiar, ifbaltad of replying to tins very simpla but im&Want que.«.tiou, shelter* himself from not. replying be- ' oiuie ho dtema it would bo infra-duj iv him totti.ener anonyinoui questions j he imlher »<a\B tno quu»ti.jn was put bui'catfcully. \V!iat does Uj meaa hj ' lint ? ftarcusin m a ta^at— « gibd ; the.c was not|>iiig in my quest ion tauntingly or «ioingl/ put. The re.i t ou for p..tli»g ths question I gave, namely, llui all authorities bilticito had gi\eu in that no ftrtuioial uiauure ie eqml io farm yard dunjr, arid p,»rlicular)y to one would tfty in the Province of Auckland, whfjro no artiUcial manures uro made, and bone dust and gjuanosceni ilia only soi ts imported. The mcc qou is of the greatusi iinporlai-co, not only to tbo Wkikalo but to the f,iiruers in the proviuca, and Mr Jamea Jiunciuum surely will not be the man ,to withhold such impoitant information from the agru-ultural world, under the excuse of the anonymity of the humble i{Ußsiioner" but wi'l lather take a larger view of tlj»'posi'ior and will coiuider u hit boutiden duly us a farmer »nd iollow settlor to attend m vis iiUcw at 'he neit meoiiug nf the Cambridge (Jlu'o and develop to this country tho m,>ans oi inaljiu" this "portable and more dfioaoious manure" He also might give his opinion at the same time if tu(h mauure is calculated— if used— io bring baokthe fertility of the soils of Dairy, un<l the eO.Is iv tho neighbourhood of Oiahuhu, which soils I iia credibly iuformed Uavo been worn out by the larmmg of former farmers, Mi James Kunciman knows to be a fact 1 presume, ard from bis raluable jiractical year« of experience, bia opinion an 1 experience must be of -great value, if imparted to U« country. Mr Janit's lluncimui will perhaps eX'-u-e my reminding him that tlii uosiliou bo holds has iv duties and responsibilities, and in hi* capacity as a pruminent uiemb.-r nl the CamDridge Club it is not u:.lyhis duty but b's pn.vilego to impart to his fe'low settlers nil the information in hi* power, which I hopa he will do, and put away from his mind that it will bo lowe-ms himself in his own estimation to even the mostmfiin.iics-'imal digreo, by a>i»wermi,' the queslions put to hull on Uia gioimds of public utility and profit by C,NCINNATUS.