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C-N MANURE AS A TOP-DRESSING FOR HAY. 



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phate of soda at the rate of 120 lbs. per acre — the latter being in its dry or un- 

 crystallized state. « 



The effect, generally, of all the dressings is strikingly greater on the light 

 soil — a fact which speaks strongly in favour of the adoption of any of those 

 methods by which the openness and friability of the land has been found to be 

 permanently promoted. On the stiff soil, even the ammonia, by some deemed 

 so vitally necessary to vegetation, appeal's to have produced no sensible alter- 

 ation. 



The Dressings were applied 1st May, the Grass cut 1st July, and the Hay 

 weighed 19th July. 



III. Experiments made under the immediate superintendence of W. Fleming, 

 Esq., of Barochan, near Paisley, and on his own property. The statement is 

 drawn up by Mr. Fleming himself 



1. — Experiments on Hay with Nitrate and Sulphate of Soda and with Cfypsum^ 



