The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE. TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1887.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2356, 16 August 1887, Page 2

The Waikato Times AND THAMES VALLEY GAZETTE.

TUESDAY , AUGUST 16, 1887.

Knuiil ;md c*nct justice to all men, Of whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political.

Wiikv wo heir of the custom counties of England wo naturally think of the scientific farming of Ool.e, Mechi and Clave Sewell Head, with a host of other agricultur tl giants; and wchavo learned to associate Ipswich with farm machinery an 1 manures. Cambridge and Bedford

shires, with other adjacent districts, have vast liwls of natural phosphates, the fossilisml remains of animals which died perhaps before Adam ever wedded live. These are largely worked up by (he artificial manure manufacturers of Ipswich; prominent among whom is the lirm of bison and Go,, some 10 years in the business, whose representative is now among ns, Mr Joseph bison was one of the first to (.tint to practical use these valuable deposits, whose original discovery was due to the Dev. Dr. Ilcnslow, of Hitcham, in Suffolk, tint the resources of the I inn arc imt, eonlined to bast Anglia -from Canada to Chili, from the Bight of Benin to the Bay of Panama they ransack every climate for the vegetable, animal or fossilised ingredients of their manures, Boot cultivation is at the bottom of all prolitable fanning, a fact well known to all occupiers of land in the Waikato, and from a perusal of the numerous testimonials of this linn we notice a remarkable consensus of opinion favourable to the value of its manures in this particular line.

The Channel Islands and the Coruwall-Devon Peninsula are wellknown as the chief sources of the ear ly potato supply of London, and alike from the press, and from the fanners of these districts come the most satisfactory testimonials to the value of Fison’s Fertilisers. Of course such high farming as is an absolute necessity in long established agricultural countries such as England, would not pay hero, but we may learn from the Eastern States of America the lesson that even the best virgin soils are not inexhaustible and without going so far, we have the warning of South Australia, and the Canterbury Plains before our eyes.

A serious defect in artificial manures lias long been forced on the attention of farmers, namely that while they increase quantity, the quality of crops is seriously impaired and liability to the accidents of unfavourable seasons, and to the thousand and one insect and other plagues of the agriculturist is greatly increased. Messrs Fison claim, and we arc bound to say are supported in their assertions by a mass of evidence that their manures are not only free from this defect, but increase the vitality and quality of the crop besides producing larger quantities earlier in the season than can be secured without their use. They maintain that their fertilisers are, for instance, specifics against the potato blight, and protect turnips from the fly. At the ISBG show of the Royal Agricultural Society held at Norwich, the l.b'st prize of lifty guineas for the best 250-ticre farm was won by a farmer, who for many years had used no chemical manures but theirs, and the “Irish Farmers’ Gazette,” one of the most practical agricultural journals at Home, speaks in terms of unqualified praise of their manures, .cake and meal. While on the subject we may notice that a special variety is recommended for sugar-beet, and the wheat fertiliser, it is claimed, increases the yield b}' from .’lO to 50 per cent.