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nitrogen, and matters would have become complicated. As potash, 

 mostly 4 cwt. of kainit were used. A proper system of rotation 

 was followed. No two crops of the same kind were grown on the 

 same plot. 



ASPARAGUS. The application of potash in the form of kainit 

 has been followed at Hadlow in each case by the most striking 

 results, especially with a liberal supply of nitrogen. Twenty-five 

 loads dung alone gave 687 bundles of 50 heads each per acre ; with 

 the addition of phosphates, salt, and 4 cwt. nitrate of soda, 80-1 

 bundles ; and if kainit was substituted for salt, 1,158 bundles. 



BEETROOTS. Twenty-five tons of dung worked in before sowing 

 with a few hundredweights of phosphates, and followed by two- 

 dressings of 25 cwt. nitrate of soda at each time, are sure to give good 

 results, and from 17 to 25 cwt. of beet in excess against dung alone. 

 Potash produced no appreciable effect at Hadlow. Mr. T. Foussat, 

 near Nancy, tried 24,000 Ib. compost per acre, against 240 Ib. nitrate 

 of soda. Result, a small loss and 30 profit. 



BEANS. (See page for Broad Beau*.) For green beans much 

 nitrogen must be used, so that 100 Ib. of nitrate of soda or sul- 

 phate of ammonia may be hardly sufficient per acre, the former to- 

 be given in two or three doses. 250 to 500 Ib. of a phosphatic 

 manure, and 70 to 140 Ib. of muriate or sulphate of potash, are also 

 frequently applied in the United States, with either nitrogenous 

 manure. 



BEANS. (See page 77 for Broad Beans.) French. Professor A. 

 Bourgeois reports that at the experiments made by French teachers, 

 M. Leclerc, of Courcelles, had with 16 cwt. Thomas phosphate and 

 40 Ib. sulphate of potash 1,200 Ib. of green, beans, ,against 880 Ib. 

 from unmanured land. M. Gryer, of Villey St. Etienne, had a 

 proportion of two to three from unmanured to the manured beans. 

 Mr. E. Lierke, of Leopoldshall, has made many experiments, of 

 which the most successful was with 272 Ib. of superphosphate, 240 

 Ib. sulphate of ammonia, and 240 muriate of potash, which resulted 

 in 11,711 Ib. of green beans and 2,006 Ib. of ripe beans per acre, 

 against 7,424 Ib. of green beans and 1.302 Ib. of ripe beans at a 

 net. profit of 10/16/. Beans, being nitrogen-collecting, a smaller 

 Quantity of sulphate of ammonia would have been more than suffi- 

 cient., but was used for the fruit-trees in the garden. Dr. von 

 Spillner, of Wittenberg, says, however, that in his own experience 

 and from one experiment by Mr. Scheer. he found that beans are 

 f r a considerable time at a standstill unless they receive some dung 

 or a quick-acting nitrogenous fertiliser until sufficient tubercles 

 have been found able to assimilate nitrogen from the air. 



CABBAGES (Imperial). The average yield of three crops was -\t 

 Hadlow as follows : Plot E, 12 J tons dung was the standard ; F. 

 with 25 tons,, had 2^ ; tons per acre more ; A, B, and D, 5J>, 4^, and 

 6|- tons more ; and C, without any dung at all, merely the fertilisers. 

 4 tons per acre more than E, at accost of '2/10/. against 5, the cost 

 of the dung. See manuring of plots on page 88. 



SAVOYS did not differ in results. Spring cabbages appeared 

 on Hadlow soil to be indifferent to the supply of potash ; but as 



