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pastures, but if applied in spring, on cheesemaking 

 farms, it taints the milk so much that the cheeses 

 will taste of it for several weeks or even months. At 

 the same time the cheeses will " heave " a good deal 

 during ripening. Bone meal should therefore be 

 applied in the winter time, in order to give time for 

 the rain to wash it into the surface soil before the grass 

 begins to spring. 



Many pasture soils grow grass of inferior quality, 

 and all kinds of objectionable weeds, simply because 

 the land is too poor to grow good pasture plants. The 

 effect of a dressing of slag (6 cwts.) and kainit (2 to 3 

 cwts. per acre) has generally a marked effect on the 

 quality of the herbage. The grass becomes sweeter, 

 white clover grows in abundance, stock cling 

 tenaciously to it, and the land carries a larger number 

 of stock per acre. 



This point was demonstrated at the Midland 

 Agricultural College, in their "manuring for milk" 

 experiment, where 8 acres of pasture-land received a 

 dressing of 10 cwts. ground lime; half of this area 

 received in addition 4 cwts. of super (35 per cent.) and 

 ij cwts. sulphate of potash. During the first summer 

 the 4-acre plot, which received the phosphates and 

 potash, carried at first two, but later three cows, 

 while the remaining 4 acres only carried two. At 

 the end of the first season (1909), the cows feeding on 

 the manured plot produced very nearly 3489 Ibs. 

 more milk than those fed on the unmanured plot. 

 This amounts to an increased milk yield, in favour of 

 the manure, of 84 galls, per acre. The increased yield 

 of the cows fed on the manured plot has been more than 

 maintained during the seasons 1910, 1911, and 1912, 

 the average increase in milk yield per acre, due to this 





