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Moreover, unless we put into the soil as much phosphoric acid as the 

 crop removes, we are gradually making the soil poorer and poorer, render- 

 ing longer spells necessary, and ultimately running the soil right out. 

 It must, therefore, be a good business proposition to use more super.; 

 1 cwt. per acre would be sufficient to enable the soil to give a full return 

 for the labour, seed, &c., expended upon it in other directions. Further, 

 where a full amount of phospohric acid is available, less moisture will 

 be necessary to produce a crop, as all the food is taken up in solution, 

 and the stronger the solution the less the quantity of water is trans- 

 pired through the leaf system to provide nourishment. The soil's 

 fertility would be maintained for future crops, and even if the land 

 were allowed to return to grass, better food values in the fodder would 

 obtain. When farmers generally realize that their yields are practicallv 

 governed by the water, nitrogen, and phosphoric acid supply, and anv 

 deficiency in any one of those factors means smaller returns, one great 

 step in the right principles of farming will have been mastered. 



The results of the crop and fallow competitions are submitted with 

 comments herewith : — 



No. 1.- — Nhill Crop Competition. 

 For best exhibited half o*^ wheat crop not le?s than 7-5 acres. 



Maximu 



G. Crouch 

 O. H. Lienert 

 Voijit and Sallman 

 H. Soroopo 

 G. H. Voiaht 

 R. Blackwood 

 F. W. Habov 

 W. Krclle 

 B. Schultz 

 J. Collins 

 J. Dart 



Location. 



m points 



Kaniva 



Lorquon 



Mt. Elgin 



Diapur 



Winiain 



Kiata East 



Salisbury 



Woorak West 



Ni Ni Well 



AVoorak 



Nhill 



Freedom 



from 

 Weeds. 



15 



U 

 13 

 1.3 

 12 

 13 

 12 

 11 

 13 

 12 

 13 

 12 



15 



14 

 13 

 14 

 12 

 12 

 14 

 13 

 12 

 14 

 13 

 11 



Total. 



100 



92 

 90 

 86 

 84 

 83 

 81 

 81 

 81 

 80 

 77 

 69 



P. H. J. Goodwin rotirod from tho corap jtition, on the grountl that his crop was not 

 good enough. 



No. 2.— Mallee Crop, lt)0 acres. 



Name. 



Ma.virau 



D. 11. McKenzic 



T. Miller 



m points 



Gli-nlee 



Total. 



100 



84 

 SO 



