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..How to Make Crops Grow . 



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A SPLENDID IfSliyO^V CO^CER^f^Ci ^IIRO-BACTERI^C. 



Extract from Wairarapa, N.Z., "AGE" of Sept. 14, I9lts— 



NITRO-BACTERINE. 



Wonderful Culture. 



The value of nitro-bacterine as a culture for prn- 

 motitig the growth of all kinds of crops anrj shrulis 

 is every year becoming more widelv recognised, not 

 onh' by farmers in New Zealand, but in other coun- 

 tries where scientific agriculture is largely carried 

 on. Mr. John Wingate, of High-street, Alasterton, 

 who is an enthusiastic advcwate of the use of the 



1 culture has had it triecl by numerous settlers in the 



Wairarapa, with most successful results. The culture 

 is also being used most successfully in the South 

 Island, and in this connection Mr. Wingate has just 

 recei\'ed a letter from, a settler there, a few extract.s 

 from which should prove interesting reading to set 



: tiers in this district :— We sowed 20 acres of turnips 



and treated the seed with the culture. Thev were 



• sown after Christmas, and we gave them three cwt. 



of artificial manure, but whether it was the extra 

 .manure or the bacterine that forced them on I can- 

 not say, but I never saw turnips grow like them. 

 W'e were sorrv afterwards that we did not sow a 

 few drills with seed, not treated. The peas and 

 .;b0;ins w^e had in the garden were growing row about 

 with seed that had been treated, and the other with 

 no culture, and the treated seed were as good again 

 as the other. We sowed some -cabbage seed in a ', 



box, and half of them we treated with bacterine, 

 and the other half ju.st watered them. The result 

 was that the cultured plants were ready to plant out 

 weeks before the other ones, and were ever so much 

 healthier. We are sowing down a 50-acre paddock 

 in clover. We ha\'e half of it sown now. and the 

 rest will be sown this week. ■ We have treated the 

 seed with bacterine, but will leave a strip up the 

 centre with seed that has not been treated, and see 

 how it does this season. We are also sowing 50 

 acres of peas under similar conditions, and will let 

 you know the result this sea.son. The results of 

 the use of the culture are also to be seen at the resi- 

 dence of Mr. Denbv, I.ansdowne. Nfasterton. 



Send for Trial Packet to " Nitro=Bacterine," "Review of Revie\^■s " Office, T. and 

 0. Life Huildin};^, Swanston Street, Melbourne. Tasmanian orders should jfo to 

 Messrs. W. D. Peacock & Co., Hobart, and New Zealand to Air. John Wing-ate, 

 High Street, Masterton, or Mr. I.. M. Isitt, 95 Colombo Street, Christchurch. 



When ordering, please state for what Crop the culture is required. 



Price, 7/6 per packet. 



