MANURING 



Many of the willow holts are flooded during the 

 winter months, and the thick sediment left contains 

 valuable plant food. In such instances no other 

 dressing is required. It is a good plan to give poor 

 holts a top dressing with farmyard manure, by the 

 aid of which the yield is said to be increased. Mr. 

 Hutchinson, of the Midland Agricultural College, 

 found that a dressing of sulphate of ammonia increased 

 the length of the rods grown, but states that the result 

 of applying superphosphate (36 per cent, soluble) at 

 the rate of 5 cwt. per acre, sulphate of potash at the 

 rate of 3 cwt. per acre, and sulphate of ammonia at 

 the rate of ij cwt. per acre, together at four different 

 centres, showed that the plots had received advantage 

 from the treatment, but the increased crop did not pay 

 for the cost of tt^e manures. 



It has been found that lime considerably sweetens 

 and fertilises soils having a sluggish drainage and a 

 tendency to grow moss, but lime may not be suitable 

 to all classes of soil and all situations. The practical 

 agriculturist will determine for himself whether its 

 application is suitable or otherwise. It may be of 

 considerable interest to growers to know that willow 

 peelings, up to now regarded as a by-product of no 

 value, form excellent manure for potato growing and 

 other purposes. It was demonstrated in 1906 by 

 Messrs. Sutton & Sons on their experimental grounds 

 at Reading, that this manure, used at the rate of 

 30 tons per acre, produced a heavier crop than farm- 

 yard manure at the same rate. The peelings are 

 allowed to lie on the ground and rot for twelve months 



