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WHAT MANURES TO APPLY. 

 RESULT OF SECOND MOWING ON AUGUST HTH : 



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 scarcely if any good. This is the case usually on wet land or 

 in very 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 



