272 WHAT MANURES TO APPLY. 



RESULT OF SECOND MOWING ON AUGUST 11th: 



A little gypsum or plaster or clover, only a half bushel to the 

 acre, will often increase the yield in an astonishing manner, 

 making the gypsum worth $125 per ton. In some cases it will 

 do scarcel}'^ if any good. This is the case usually on wet land or 

 in ver}^ wet seasons. 



Baron Lawes states the following in the Indiana Farmer for 

 1883, in reference to fertilizing pastures in the United States: 



''Where pasture is constantly mown, the removal of the potash 

 from the soil becomes in time very large. Taking into account 

 the price obtained for hay in the states, I think it is very doubtful 

 whether restoration of fertility by means of artificial manures, 

 might not be too costly, and I should be disposed to think that a 

 more economical process for such restoration, would be by feeding 

 animals on the pasture with corn or cake. 



" The quality of the pastures at Rothamsted has been wonder- 

 fully improved by giving a certain amount of cotton cake to the 

 stock fed upon them ; and it is my opinion, that if at any time 

 the blue-grass should retire from a pasture before an invading 

 army of weeds and inferior grasses, the manure from cotton 



