GRASS FOR HAY 



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Quaking Grass, so generally taken as a sign of poor land, which con- 

 stituted 20 per cent, of the whole herbage in 1903, and Sheep's I'escue ; 

 among leguminous plants the Bird's-foot Trefoil ; and Burnet, Hawkbit, 

 and Black Knapweed among the weeds. 



Use of Nitrogenous Manures alone. 



: \ Three of the plots — 17, 5, and 1 — show the effect of the long-con- 

 tinued use of nitrogenous without any mineral manures. Plot 5 for forty- 

 two years received 86 lb. of nitrogen as ammonium-salts, Plot 17 half 

 the quantity of nitrogen in the shape of nitrate of soda, and Plot 1 the 

 same half quantity of nitrogen as ammonium-salts, though on this plot 

 dung was applied in each of the first eight years of the experiment. The 



Without Nitrogen 

 -A. 



With Nitrogen. 



Plots 3&I2 



Fig. 6. — EflFect of the various Ash constituents with and without Nitrogen on the 

 produce of Hay per acre. Average over 47 years (1856-1902). 



Plots 3 and 12. Unmanured. | Plot 4-2. Super, and Arara.-salts =86 lb. N. 



Plot 4-1. Superphosphate. I Plot 10. Minerals (without Potash) and 



Plot 8. Minerals with Potash. | Amm.-salts = 86 lb. N 



Plot 7. Complete Mineral Manure. I Plot 9. Complete Mineral Manure and 



Amm.-salts-86 lb. N. 



