AROMATIC PI^ANTS 



1619 



Example of an average farm account for 1 acre of vetches, grown as a 

 first crop on rather gravelly, calcareous clay soil, on the plain 0/ Suragossa. 



Expenses. 



Preparation of the soil: 



s d 



3 pairs of oxen for Jaen plough 78 



4 " " " " Brabant " lo 3 



3 " " '■ " " " 78 



1 horse for harrow 17 



4 days labour for preparing the soil for irrigation 211 



s d 

 30 I 

 Manure. _ , 



88 lbs. superphosphate, and cost of transport 6 6 



^J2 day for labour for spreading manure 4 610 



Irrigation expenses. 



2 days labour for irrigations 15 



Cost of seeding. 



112 pints of vetch seed 14 4 ^/j 



8 pints of oats for mixing in 20^/2 



I day labour for sowing seed 8 ^/g 



3 pairs animals for covering seed 59^/2 22 11 



Cost of hay making. 



9 da3'S labour for cutting 8 8 



6 " " " making and loading hay 36 



1 horse for i day to draw hay to barn 17 



13 9 

 Rent of land and general expenses 

 Reckoned together as 67s 2d of which one half is debited to the first 



crop (vetches) and the other half to the second crop 33 7 



Total Expenses 108 7 



Receipts. 



2 tons 12 Y2 <^"^^t. dry hay 137 o 



Net gain per acre 28 5 



Estimating the value of the land at about £ 11 per acre the return 

 would be about 25 per cent, half being made by the first crop and half b}' 

 the second, over and above the improvement of the soil by the residues 

 left by the leguminous plants. 



1 182 - Experiments with Potash Manures on kops in Germany. — ancker f., in Wochen- 



schrift fiir Brauerei, Year 33, No. 35, pp. 273-273. Berlin, August 26, 1916. 



The report of the Berlin Experiment Station and School of Brewing 

 is given on experiments made in 191 5 to determine the influence of ar- 

 tificial manures on the quality of hops. Each experimental field was di- 

 vided into 4 plots separated by one or two rows which are not included in 

 the results. 



STIMUL.\NT, 



AROM.\TIC, 



NARCOTIC, 



AND MtlDICINAL 



PLANTS 



