MANURES AND MANURING. IQQ 



Of other manures the cost, as can be gathered 

 from the reports, is as follows : 



" Artificial manures, 6 2s. per acre ; bones and poonac, 

 5 105. to 8 per acre ; sombreorum, 3 to 6 los. per acre ; 

 bonedust and ashes, 10 to 12 per acre; poonac, bonedust, 

 and Bolivian guano, 7 2s. per acre ; poonac, bonedust, and 

 good guano, 6 155. 3^. per acre ; pulp, i i6s. 6d. to 

 2 i os. per acre." 



Of the relative effects of the manures, the fol- 

 lowing seems to be the result deducible from the 

 majority of these enquiries : 



" That cattle manure is par excellence the best and most 

 lasting, the effects remaining over two to three years. Next 

 in order come bones and poonac, which are held to be good 

 from one to two years. Guano alone is considered too stimu- 

 lating and not lasting, but in mixtures (in small quantities) 

 with bones and poonac seems to have a very beneficial effect. 

 Several of the writers speak very favourably of the application 

 of pulp." 



The Sub-Committee make the following sugges- 

 tions with regard to mode and time of application 

 of manure : 



" First, that all lands except such as have little or no slope 

 should, in the first instance, be carefully drained ; that bulky 

 manures should be placed in holes of not less size than 2 feet 

 by i foot, and not exceeding i foot in depth, and at a distance 

 of from 9 to 1 8 inches from the stem of the tree. That artificial 

 manures should be in semicircular holes above the tree, and of 

 smaller size." 



The Committee's advice is excellent, but it 

 may be noted the price of artificial manures has 

 cheapened somewhat of late, as the means of getting 



