MANURES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1996, 23 April 1885, Page 3

MANURES.

_^t_ Timk was when, with few exceptions, manure wan looked on simply as inainiic, and provided it was of a sufficiently potent natuic to be visibly eftVctive 1 in tin* mei eased development of 90ine 01 other of the parts of the plants to winch it was applied, it was considered sufficient and all that was rcquiied. Mamues of the commonest kind, rich in ammonia, and consequently conducive to the promotion of leaf-growth, were often supposed a 1 * all that was necessary ; and unfortunately it may be set down as a certainty that too much of this happy-go lucky soit of pi-o ceeihng is still followed with many of the oidmaiy gat den crops - fruits as well as common Mgutables. This especially applies to th< host of airateui gaideneis, and to the doings of the so-called gaideners who arc entrusted with the management ot the smaller runs of gaidens ; not th.it but ■»uch mistakes sire otten to be seen w hew bettet things might be looked for Vet, that the majority of cultivated plants ate not only benefited by, but absolutely ie quire more variety in the food tupplieel to them than has hitherto been guieially supposed nuce-bary, is exemplified I>> the marked results that invaiiably tollou a mixeel diet in the shape ot dilUient kinds of manuie, when these aic applied with jndgmeut— that is, with sulhcie-nt knowledge of the requirements of the* paitieular kind of plant to he dealt with. Amongst those engaged in the cultivation of garden pioducc there are few, if any, whose prartiee goes so far as to confirm this as that of the leading market {-aieleneis in the eliffeient things they cultivate. Potplants, grapes, ami culinaiy vege tables in their hands alike show what can be (lone by the use of different manures. The extraoielinary giowth anel profusion of flowers present in plants grown in pots small out of all proportion to the plants they hold — such as may be aven in thousands in any of the leading market gardens — and the astonishing weight ot highly finished grapes which vines under their niauag ment annually pioduce, are conclusive evidence of what can be done by the use of different manures, each nch in some or other of the v.nious elements requited to give the highest results attainable with the plants and fiuits in quu*tion. It is scarcely necessary to point to the practice named as being diamettically diffeieut to the course ott< n fol lowed with vegetable crops in old guldens, wherii, for more than a geneiation, nothing has been done but the annual application of stable manure, with possibly the occasional addition of vegetable mould in some shape or other, anel with vines that have haei their loots for an indefinite time in holders with no thing to assist them beyond a repe-tit on of the same manure, in which hoi ■«» droppings ate all but the sole in^ifdient Not that thcie is room to find f uilt with the well-proved fertiliser, that has t)»further meiit of being teaehly obtained and easily npplied, but it does not alone contain all the elements required to reach the highest htandaiel in the cultivation ot the plants under notice, p.u ticulaily in soil that has been, with little change, under the same kind of crop. The highest i esults attainable in the cultiva turn of tin; vatious plants here noticed, and of most others, can only lie reached by providing them with mixed food, vaiied according to the requirements of the different things to be giown, and still further regulated by the nature of the particular soil with which Iho cultivator has to deal. Tins in a subject which young pardeners, who feel an interest in the advancement of the pursuit, would do well to direct their attention to. The great body of those engaged in agriculture in this country have long been taunted with groping their way, lather than making acquaintance with sound practice. But the schoolmaster, in the shape of the ex peiimental chemist, is now abioael in earnest, ami there is abundant evidence that in the intelligent portion of those who cultivate the hwael acres have the ii eyes wide open to receive the lessons tail j.' lit and put them in pi act ice. (iaidenois collectively would dowe-ll to avail themselves of the teaching, which, taken in a broader sense, is equally applicable to the crops they cultivate. — T. B , in the " Gardeners' Chioniele."

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