38 FARM MANAGEMENT 



There has been a great change in recent 

 years in the manuring of grass land ; Hme and 

 well-rotted dung were universally used, but 

 now basic slag is superseding them, and with 

 excellent results. Slag not only supplies 

 phosphates and lime to a soil, but by its 

 notable encouragement of the leguminous 

 plants, namely the clovers, it increases the 

 supply of nitrogen to the soil. The amounts 

 of slag applied vary according to the nature 

 of the grass, but 7 cwt. per acre applied, say, 

 every seven years, has excellent effects, and 

 some 5 cwt. of kainit may also be added, 

 particularly on the lighter soils. 



The pasture will, of course, receive con- 

 siderable manuring from the stock grazed on it, 

 and this manure requires to be spread from 

 time to time by light harrows. Pastures also 

 require to be rolled regularly. 



For rheadows the following is a very 

 effective annual dressing : — 12 tons per acre of 

 dung every third year and, in intervening years, 

 apply I J cwt. each of nitrate of soda, basic 

 slag and superphosphate. If no dung be 

 available, then apply an extra hundredweight of 

 both super and kainit, and an extra ^ cwt. of 



