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GRASS AND CLOVER. 



MASSACHUSETTS, 1895. 



By William P. Brooks, Agriculturist. Thirty-third Annual Re- 

 port. 



"The potash greatly increases the proportion of clover, and thus 

 considerably benefits the first cut of hay, the average increase this 

 year amounting to 569 lbs. of hay for an application of 160 lbs. of 

 muriate of potash per acre. 



"The effect of the potash application is most striking upon th« 

 rowan crop. This, where timothy, red-top and clover are sown, is 

 always chiefly clover. This year there was not rowan enough to weigh 

 except where barn-yard manure or potash had been applied. 



"Muriate of potash applied to land which is to be seeded to mixed 

 grasses and clovers may be depended upon to increase the proportion 

 of clover in the produce, and consequently to make the hay more 

 highly nitrogenous, and particularly to increase the yield of rowan. 

 The amount needed is about 175 to 200 lbs. per acre. 



"Fertilizers for top-dressing grass lands in spring should contain 

 -nitrate of soda and muriate or sulphate of potash." 



NEW JERSEY, 1886. 



By S. p. Ridgeway, Hurfvillk, Gloucester Co. Seventh Annual 

 Report. Potash alone and in combination produced a profit. 



"It is evident that this result was largely due to the favorable 

 effect produced by the muriate of potash in securing a stand, since, 

 with the exception of plot 11, the crop was very light where no 

 muriate of potash was used." 



HEMP. 



KENTUCKY, 1888. 



Experiment by M. A. Scovell, Director. Bulletin No. 18. 



Soil — Blue grass land, well worn. The experiment shows plainly 

 that quantity as well as quality was improved by applications con- 

 taining potash. The quality of the potash plots was prorounced to 

 be fair or good, while trashy on all other plots. 



"It follows that potash was an essential ingredient of the fertilizer 



which produced the marked increased growth of hemp." 



