ARTIFICIAL V FARM YARD MANURE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 585, 19 February 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

ARTIFICIAL V FARM YARD MANURE.

Sin,— Neitbor Mr James ltuncittu»n nor 'Cincinnati!* arc correct in their statement* with re•peot to manures. Tho former lt»u'ls artificial manures as tho cheapest and most efficient, and euch as can bo wholly relied on. (Jincinnatus, po.)h poohs artificnl manures and ei^y* there is nothing liko dur.g. The a>,nurtion^ of either evtretnoadvocat.) ncol qualifying. Tho 80il will in the tnd lose its fertility if artificial manures nli. no b» applied. You cannot thus supply all the collar it uonti contained in farm yard manure, liuuiu* would be entirely wanting and urtfioml ?iid.uurt> would not supply what tho farmer at home would call "nature" to tho soil. On tho <jp her liititd Urm yard manuro though supplying u il ih it ii» needed will not by itself produce tho lar^cdt pomible profitable crop. Careful exporiiueiit has decided that a muturc of tho two will produce the largest crop, that i«, that whero, any 40 loads of dung will produce so many bushclg per - »ere 20 loads of dung nnd so many cwts of l .guano or superphosphate of lime, or nitrato of Su-la or other such urtificial manure will produoe the bmiiu or a greater number of bushels tt a lees cost, and louve tho land in aa good heart. Experiment haa defined tho exact proportion oj dunijand o( artificial inanuNt mixed which will produco the larjjcit crop at tiio largest margin of profit, mid it I thought it wortli while, that the information would bo acceptable to farwon in New Zealand, I could with a little trorblc, give tho ipccified a.nounts of each, which could be use 1 with -most profit, for,asinthc use of bone dr.st, this hurt been docidod with certainty by aotual experiment. Every farmer knows that 17 cwt of bonu dust to tho aero is the quantity which, as a rulu—doils and climate will lary tho rule slightly— can bo_ applied with the greatest amount of profit, relative to the outlay. To apply more is to unk capital without adequate ltturn , to apply lots is not to puth the application '0 tliulullesU-AtorititcinboproUably pushed. It h not mv intention, hovever. to liencunt on HubjPct-, which avc out of pUco in a c >untrj wbero thcro 18 no such ojcnp itioa praclued ai furuiin^, properly so-called, but merely to point out that cither advocate- of extreme riews, Mr J Kuncimun or CWmatiiH, in n;»ht in ono Bouse and wrong iv another. Tho obvious moral ot which is that they should drop personal iti.ic, each pay a little more respect to Oio views of the othor, and out of fair diaeiuslon «oek to elicit truth —I am, 4-c, Practical To Awarautu, Feu. 18t.h 1870.