had hardly increased or t^je pasture much benefited, but the second 

 cut was from one-third to one-half better. Where Mr. Weren- 

 skiold used potash and nitrogen with superphosphate and Thoma* 

 phosphate the latter gave a little better crops, and the after-effect 

 was rather striking. The experiments, made under direction of 

 Agronomical Teacher Fr. Von Oppenau, in Alsace, so far as they 

 deal with the drier portions in Muensterthal, seem for us applicable. 

 Where 900 Ib. of Thomas phosphate and 576 Ib. of kainit were used 

 on a dry sandy loam upon stone at no great depth 1,000 Ib. more hay 

 was obtained in two cuts per acre. At another place, with the 

 same quantities of manures, on similar soil, 1,080 Ib. more hay 

 were cut ; and again, where the soil was simply dry, with no stony 

 substratum, 2,880 Ib. more were cut. 



The Agricultural Union of Gotha made experiments in 189 7 , 

 giving 4.40 cwt. of Thomas phosphate and 6.60 cwt. of kainit per 

 acre. The worst gave a net profit of 7/3, the best of 6/3/6 per 

 acre. 



Mr. ft. Krug, a German agricultural travelling teacher, re- 

 ports about a medium meadow, with sandy soil on a loamy aul> 

 soil, that stable dung gave a loss ; liquid manure, a net profit of 

 2/3/; 4 cwt. of kainit, 2/2/9; 4 cwt. of Thomas phosphate, 

 3/7/9; 4 cwi kainit and 4 cwt. Thomas phosphate, 5/8/9 per 

 acre. 



Professor Maercker found at Lauchstaedt that potash alone 

 did not pay, but when 2 cwt. of Thomas phosphate was added 

 to 10 cwt. of kainit per acre 5 cwt. more hay was taken from 

 one cut the second year, and 11 cwt. more in two cuts the third 

 year. The result was botanically of much importance, and the 

 hay contained more albumen, according to a chemical analysis by 

 Professor Fleischer, in Berlin, who found 0.99 per cent of potash 

 .and 0.44 per cent, of phosphoric acid in the unmanured hay, 

 against 2.00 per cent, potash and 0.66 per cent, phosphoric acid in 

 the manured hay. 



That you may improve the feeding value of your hay very- 

 much by manuring with Thomas phosphate and kainit has been 

 shown by experiments made at the Marburg Agricultural Station, 

 on the meadows of the Rhoen Mountains. The results at per 

 morgen, a little more than half an acre, were : 



Irrespective ol "the smaller quantity of hay from the- 

 tmmanured land,, tlie quality of the manured hay 



