better results in our dry climate in the second, and even later 

 ;years, especially where the crops to which they were applied are 

 : -shortlived, unless buried some time before the seed is sown. With 

 kainit this is absolutely necessary in any case. And is it 

 >not an advantage to have your hands freed from the necessity to 

 vmanure at the time you have to put in your crop ? 



While I am giving prominence to commercial manures, as they 

 only are obtainable in sufficient quantities, I do not by any means 

 N wish farmers and gardeners to neglect stable dung, green manuring, 

 liming, and marling, or other fertilisers, such as human excreta, 

 Wood, flesh, fish, vegetable refuse, seaweed, soot, ashes, &c., if these 

 can be had at low rates, and yet answer their purpose. They are 

 very good alternatives to prevent as Professor Gerard, of Lyons. 

 says the soil from getting hard, and more or less impermeable from 

 using some potassic and other commercial fertilisers. 



F. E. H. W. KRICHAUFF. 

 Norwood, March, 1901. 



The following prices have ruled for cereals at Port Adelaide 

 Baiter harvest in 1900-1, and in the other States the difference was 

 oiot material : 



Wheat, 2/7 to 2/9. 



Barley, for malting, 3/3 to 3/8 ; Cape, 2/3. 



Oats, dun or Algerian, 1/8 to 1/11 ; white, 2/ to 2/8. 



Hay, 25/ to 35/. 



Inland prices are lower the more distant from a shipping port. 



Manures have been sold at Adelaide, to which must be added 

 -cost of cartage to farms : 



Kainit, 4/6 per cwt. 



Nitrate of soda, 12/ per cwt. 



Thomas phosphate, 4/6 per cwt. 



Muriate of potash, 15/ per cwt. 



Sulphate of potash, 18/ per cwt. 



Superphosphate, 6/ per cwt. 



Bonedust, 5/15/ per ton, on trucks Port Adelaide. 



Mineral superphosphate, 36-38 per cent., 87/6 per ton, on trucks 

 Port Adelaide. 



Bonemeal, ll/ to 12/6 per cwt. 



Guano superphosphate, 4 per ton, on trucks Port Adelaide. 



Kangaroo guano, about 3 per ton, on trucks Port Adelaide. 



Peruvian guano, 12 per ton, on trucks Port Adelaide (Ohlen- 

 dorff's dissolved). 



Thomas phosphate, 67/6 per ton, on trucks Port Adelaide. 



Nitrate of soda, 10/10/ per ton, on trucks Port Adelaide. 



Sulphate of ammonia, 13/10/ per ton, on trucks Port Adelaide. 



Kainit, 4 per ton, on trucks Port Adelaide. 



Sulphate of potash, 14/5/ per ton, on trucks Port Adelaide. 



Muriate of potash, 13/15/ per ton, on trucks Port Adelaide. 



Blood manure, 8 to 9 per ton, on trucks Port Adelaide. 



