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Government by Mr. Robertson, the well-known 

 Superintendent of Government Model Farms, 

 Madras : 



This is evidently the result of its application in 

 the first year only, but the outturn will, of course, 

 be still greater in the two following years. 



Bone-manure will be most remunerative when 

 applied to light or loamy soil ; if applied to a 

 clayey soil, care should be taken that the land is 

 well-drained and ploughed, and also that a sufficient 

 quantity of organic matter, such as straw, grass, 

 &c., is present ; for this not only facilitates the access 

 of air into the soil, but supplies by its gradual 

 decay the carbonic acid that is so essential a solvent 

 of the Phosphates. 



Straw, grass, and similar other matter should 

 never be burnt on a clayey soil, but always ploughed- 

 in whole. As calcareous soils already contain 

 large stores of phosphoric acid, the addition of bone- 

 manure to such is unnecessary, and will cause 

 no perceptible increase in the outturn. The 

 best manure for such soils is the compost Town- 

 Manure. 



