310 The Review of Reviews. 



...How to Make Crop s Grow... 



A SPLENDID TESTIMONY CONCERMNG NITR0-6ACTERINE. 



The following appeared in the Wairarapa Daily Times, New Zealand, of January 4. 1912. 



After reading this even the most sceptical must be assured of the wonderful properties of Nitro- 



Bacterine. A letter from Mr. Wingate informs us that the weather was extremely unfavourable, 



and that the oats w'ere in stook for 12 days, two facts which make the results all the more astonish- 

 ing. 



MITEO- BACT ERIITE. 

 Effect on an Oat Crop. 



Mr. John Wingate, of Masterton, who has been 

 experimenting for some time past with nitro- 

 bacterine, and its effect on crops, has kindly sup- 

 plied us with some figures showing the result of 

 the application of the culture to a sowing of oats. 

 Mr. Wingate set aside five plots, to which he 

 applied various manures, and he kept a careful 

 note of the cost of the different methods of treat- 

 ment he used. The results may best be shown 

 in the following form : — It may be added that 

 Mr. George Dagg, a well-known farmer, did the 

 necessary measuring and weighing, and compiled 

 the figures quoted. 



Plot r, treated with li cwt. of mixed basic 

 slag and superphosphate, not inoculated with 

 nitro-bacterine, ga\e i ton 12 cwt. 16 lbs. Cost 

 of manuring : 9s. 



Plot 2, treated with i| cwt. super-phosphate 

 per acre and inoculated with nitro-bacterine, gave 

 2 tons 5 cwt. 2 qrs. 24 lbs., and cost 9s. 9d. 



Plot 3, treated with i^ cwt. mixed basic slag 

 and superphosphate inoculated with nitro-bac- 

 terine, gave 2 tons 15 cwt. 2 qrs. 24 lbs., and the 

 manuring cost 9s. 9d. 



Plot 4, treated with li cwt. of basic slag in- 

 oculated with nitro-bacterine, gave 2 tons 10 cwt., 

 and the manuring cost 9s. gd. 



Plot 5, inoculated with nitro-bacterine only 

 (fourth crop without any other manure), gave 2 

 tons 12 cwt. 16 lbs. Cost of manuring: 9d. 



A study of plots i, 3 and 5 is well worth 

 while. No. i, the only plot without the culture, 

 although expensively manured, gave the poorest 

 return. The best results, irrespective of cost, 

 were obtained from plot 3. Easily the most 

 lirofitable return was from plot 5, which, althdugh 

 it was without the exp<'nsive manures used in the 

 other plots, was only three hundredweight brliind 

 number 3. 



Send for Trial Packet to " Nitro-Bacterine," "Review of Reviews" Office, T. and 

 •Q. Life liullding, Swanston Street, Melbourne. Tasmanian orders should go to 



Messrs. W. D. Peacock & Co., Mobart, and New Zealand to Mr. John Wingate, 

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



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



Price, 7/6 per p.icket. 



