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Commercial Gardening 



It will be noticed that the greatest gross yield was 6 tons 4 cwt. in No. IX 

 at a manurial cost of 7, 15s. 3d per acre, while poor results 5 tons 8 cwt. 

 were obtained in No. X at a greater manurial cost of 8, 8s. 9d. Taking 

 the saleable produce of No. X experiment as being worth 3 per ton, the 

 gross receipt would come to 13, 19s. per acre. Deducting 8, 8s. 9d. for 

 manures, 5, 10s. 3d. per acre a totally inadequate sum is left for labour, 

 rent, rates, taxes, &c. 



These figures dealing with manures have been given at some length 

 to show that little or no faith can be placed in the experiments. The 

 deductions are fallacious and misleading, and the crops miserably poor as 

 well. Dosing a soil no matter what its character or texture may be 

 with certain manures, without applying labour, or "elbow grease" that old, 

 original, important, and always responsive manure and without giving a 

 fair amount of space, is practically wasting time, money, labour, and land. 



