On the experimental plot near Millicent (29 in.) a block was sown 

 with wheat and one with barley. Half a hundredweight of super- 

 phosphate, costing 3/, was drilled with the seed. Result, 36 bushels 

 of barley and 20 bushels of wheat ; and this in a neighbourhood 

 where cereals are not generally grown with much success. Mr. 

 Shannon, of Kapunda(19.65in.), had used 1 cwt. of English superphos- 

 phate on a piece of land that would not even grow grass without 

 manure, and reaped 23 bushels of wheat per a-cre ; while Mr. Woithe, 

 near Point Pass (about 16 in.), had as good a crop with Thomas 

 phosphate. Mr. M. Rankine, of Strathalbyn (18.91 in.), reported 

 on his experiments with 5 and 7 Ib. of sulphate of ammonia and 

 50 Ib. superphosphate, and others with 5 Ib. of potash, 4 Ib. of 

 ammonia, and 35 Ib. of superphosphate, and with 7 Ib. of potash and 

 50 Ib. of superphosphate; that the best results were from the plot 

 receiving the most potash, and he believed similar land in the dis- 

 trict required potash. The returns were in every case quite satis- 

 factory. 



Mr. A. M. Dawkins, of Gawler River (18.90) reported that 

 King's Early wheat, manured with 1 cwt. guano super, yielded 21 

 "bushels per acre, against 12 bushels from unmanured crop. Bone- 

 dust was praised by some members of the Gawler River Bureau, but 

 Mr. Badcock and Mr. Badman got double the crop with Thomas 



^phosphate against unmanured land. Mr. Kluske, of Eudunda (with 

 16.96 in.), manured for; Purple Wheat on fallow land with 95 Ib. bone- 

 dust and 250 Ib. sheep manure, and reaped 15 bushels. Mr. A. W. 

 Morrison, of Brinkworth (with 15 in.), used 60 Ib. of superphosphate 

 per acre on 50 acres, and reaped 16 bushels per acre, against 4 

 Bushels where not manured. Mr. Stribling, of Stockport, had 17 

 bushels per acre on 22 acres manured with 1 cwt. of Thomas phos- 



^phate ; and Mr. Godfrey reaped 19 bushels from Early Para per acre 

 from 16 acres, and 23 bushels per acre from 33 acres of Dart's Impe- 

 rial, and stated that Thomas phosphate pays well on poor red land. 

 A farmer at' our Congress of 1899 also stated that five crops of wheat 

 were grown in twelve years on the same land manured only with 

 some phosphatic fertilisers, and the average of the crops was 20 

 bushels. This being a good crop for South Australia, the soil must 

 have contained sufficient nitrogen and potash made available by fal- 

 lowing to act with the phosphates. It does, however, not preclude 



the great probability that complete manuring might have given still 

 better crops. 



Mr. C. Lewis, of Cherry Gardens, in our hills, wjith a larger 



rainfall (certainly over 30 in.), reported that he obtained 24 bushels 



of wheat per acre from land nearly worn out when applying 3 cwt. 



of Thomas phosphate per acre. Without manure it would not pro- 



duce more than 8 bushels. Mr. Langberg, of Lucindale (with 22^ 



in. of rain), had seen no improvement in his wheat crop after using 



2 cwt. of bonedust. Mr. Mudge, of Pine Forest, applied ^ cwt. of 



'Thomas phosphate to half an acre of poor saifdy soil, on which wheat 



