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EXPERIMENTS UPON OATS AND C;5^SS. 



[Appendix^ 



May 30. — There appears a slight difference in favoar of all the applications 

 in the order above stated, the sulphate of soda (No. 3) pale in colour. 



June 28. — Appeai'ance same as on 30th May. 



The crop was cut 19th and 20th of August, and thrashed from the stock on 

 the 7th of September ; the results carefully ascertained, the grain by weight and 

 measure ; the straw by weight, as it came from the thrashing-machine ; no ac- 

 count taken of the chaff. 



RESULTS OF EXPERIMENT I. OATS. 



No 



Applications. 



Nitrate of Soda, 28 lbs 



Sulphate of Ammonia, 28 lbs.. . 



Sulphate of Soda, 56 lbs 



Nothing 



Foreign Guano, 28 lbs 



TurnbuU's BrilishGuano,56 lbs. 

 Turnbull's Impr'd Bones, 56 lbs. 

 TurnbuU's Humus, 10 bush.,,. 

 Soot, 10 busii. 



Experiment 11. — On Old Pasture Grass to be cut for Hay. 



The soil was of medium quality, on stony clay subsoil. The part of the 

 field experimented on was originally very wet, producing scarcely any better 

 herbage than rushes and other semi-aquatic plants, was drained in 1835, has 

 been three years pastured after a crop of hay from young grass in 1838 ; the 

 soil is of a blackish friable texture, the subsoil very retentive. The specific 

 manures were applied on 15th April, with the exception of the soot, which was 

 sown on the plot in the experiment at the same time that the other parts of the 

 field were dressed with soot, being about the middle of March, and by the 

 15th of April were shewing a greener shade than the portion left for experiment. 



April 25. — Observed the ridge or plot No. 5 (sulphate of ammonia) looking 

 dark in the shade, and that the salt has burned the leaves of daisies and other 

 broad-leaved plants ; the moss or fog seems also to be burned, it looks black 

 and unhealthy. 



May 7. — The ridges or plots Nos. 2, 5, and 7, look decidedly better than the 

 rest ; No. 3 also seems farther advanced than where no applications were made. 



May 23. — No. 2 getting on Tery fast, and now looks as well as No. 1, which 

 has always had the advantage (io appearance) of the other plots. The grass 

 on No. 3 pale in colour, but taller than where no manure was applied.^ 



The hay was cut on the 3d of July, and the grass weighed soon, i. c, in a 

 few hours after being cut down, but being very sunny weather it was somewhat 

 faded when weighed. The made hay weighed and put into stack on . 



Each plot consisted of onefourth of an imperial acre. 



RESULTS OP EXPERIMENT II, HAY. 



