BONES AND SUPERPIIOSPHATES.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1437, 17 September 1881, Page 4

BONES AND SUPERPIIOSPHATES.

Mb FuxcirA.nD. agent for the Earl of Beotive, Undoilcy Hall, lately said at a meeting of the Kendal Farmers' Club, that not long ago ho gave an order for about £2000 wouh of bores for pastures in Westmoreland, and that represented the allowance which Earl Bective made to his tenants for the improvement of their pastiues. He had advi&ed Earl Ik'ctne to do this, because in going through the e>tatet> he had seen good fiom its application, especially in high land, which from its difficulty of access had never had bones used betoie. But it was not always th.it the improvement showed itself m the appearance of the Held Ho had known ease'i m which thete had been apparently little improvement, and yet the result to stock had been beneficial. In Underley Park the yonng cattle weie small and deficient in hone, but the park had been dressed Avith bones, and the young cattle had since then shown a greater pi opoition of bone. The glass, too, was much better, and that ho had no doubt was owing to the dreeing of bones. About four years ago he was going over a farm at Kiikby Lonsdalc, and the tenant told him that for the Hi st two years of his occupancy the lambs were weak in the back. He then diessed the laud with bones, and since then he had never had a lamb &o affected. When he first came to Westmoreland he inseitcd in the leases a clause allowing compensation for bones applied withm four yeais, and when the Agricultural Holdings Act was passed he extended the tune. But on the estates with which lie was connected they did not often change their tenants, and during the la&t sixteen years he had only had two eases of claims arising under that clause. — A<j) a ultin id Onzctlv.