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gypsum is highly prized as a fertilizer. On a farm at 

 Holkham it was spread on sainfoin lays, at the rate of 

 four bushels per acre, and the crop in some instances was 

 doubled. It has been employed with great advantage in 

 calcareous sandy loam, and even on stiff soils which had 

 been previously limed or chalked, the result being to 

 increase lucern and clover crops threefold, and it was 

 found equally beneficial to leguminous crops. Mr. Smith, 

 of Funstal, near Sittingbourne, by using powdered gypsum 

 at the rate of five bushels to the acre, obtained the follow- 

 ing results from a field of red clover when first mown for 

 hay, and afterwards cut for seed : 



Hay crop. Seed. Straw, 



cwt, qra. Ibs. cwt. qfs. Iba. 



Gypsum 60 3 21 22 3 12 



No Manure 20 20 500 



" The cost of the gypsum was then 5s. Id. per bushel, 

 and the difference between the two experiments 16-2-9. 

 Cattle show a remarkable predilection for gypsumed 

 clover. Wheat also shows marked improvement when 

 treated to a top-dressing of this manure, and produced 

 thirty-eight bushels to the acre against twenty bushels 

 off the same land. Gypsum is to be found in many 

 parts of India, and I confidently recommend it to the 

 attention of all interested in the advancement of eastern 

 agriculture. Egypt alone would take all that Aden could 

 produce. The soils best suited to it are the light, dry, 

 sandy, gravelly, and chalky, and it produces the best 

 results when applied in dry weather. Upon exhausted 

 land, or on land containing little vegetable mould, it is 

 useless, unless ploughed-in with dung or a green crop." 



The results of its application in India are also 

 very encouraging, as appears from the following 



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