THE MANURING- Oj MARKET-GARDEN CROPS. 

 CURRANTS, 1901 (planted only in 1898). 



1053 



Annual manuring per acre 



50 loads (25 tons) London Dung 



25 loads (12 h tons) London Dung 



25 loads Dung, Phosphates (no Potash), and 1 cwt. Nitrate 



of Soda 



Ditto, ditto (with Potash) 



25 loads Dung, Phosphates (no Potash), and 2 cwt. Nitrate 



of Soda 



Ditto, ditto (with Potash) 



25 loads Dung, Phosphates (no Potash), and 4 cwt. Nitrate 



of Soda 



Ditto, ditto (with Potash) 



Ng Dung ; Phosphates (no Potash) and 4 cwt. Nitrate of Soda 

 Ditto, ditto (with Potash) 



Weight of fruit per acre 



Biack 



Red 



Currants 



Currants 



lbs. 



■ 



lbs. 



35 i 





312 



350 



175 



250 



275 



300 



225 



350 



200 



425 



200 



625 



275 



450 



300 



300 



300 



500 



In the case of the Black Currants, slightly the best result was given 

 by the heavily dunged plot. The plot, however, which received no 

 dung at all, but only a liberal dressing of chemical fertilisers, was not 

 much behind it. The combination of dung with chemical fertilisers, 

 as far as Black Currants were concerned in this particular year, did 

 no good. 



With Red Currants, however, the case was very different. The most 

 heavily dunged plot has given a smaller yield than the lightly dunged 

 plot, while the addition of chemical fertilisers consisting of phosphates, 

 potash salts, and nitrate of soda has produced a very large increase. The 

 best yield of all was obtained on the most heavily dressed chemically 

 manured plot, on which no dung at all was used. 



In three out of the four series of plots on which chemical dressings 

 were used, the influence of potash on the yield of Red Currants seems to 

 have been considerable. 



The above results are merely given for what they may be worth. It 

 is altogether premature to draw conclusions from such small crops. 



Victoria Plums. 



We laid down a plantation of Victoria Plums in 1898, on our general 

 manuring scheme, each plot being one-fiftieth of an acre in area. The 

 trees are, of course, still very young and small, but during the last three 

 years — namely, 1900 to 1902— we have gathered and weighed such fruit as 

 has been produced. 



The crop of 1902 was, like most fruit in the neighbourhood, very 

 badly cut up by frost, and irregularities due to such causes as this, and 

 to the immaturity of the trees, make it altogether premature to attach 

 any precise signification to the results ; but, as far as we have gone, it 

 wnll be seen, from the figures given in the following table, that the least 

 satisfactory plot of all has teen the heavily dunged plot. 



