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is important that they should always be chain or 

 bush harrowed afterwards and then rolled. 



It is hardly necessary to point out that larger 

 and more nutritious hay crops mean not only an 

 increase in live stock and dairy 

 increased products, but a very considerable 

 feeding value saving in the purchase of cake and 

 rfHay. feeding stuffs, which are rendered 

 less necessary from the superior 

 nourishing qualities of the grasses and clovers. 

 The great importance of improved manurial 

 methods will be better understood when it is 

 realised that there are more than five 

 5,000,000 million acres of permanent grass 

 JJay 88 land or meadows cut every year for 



hay in Great Britain, and yet we 

 have to import considerable quantities of hay 

 from abroad. Suitable manuring of these grass 

 lands would not only render us quite independent 

 of foreign countries for our supplies, but, owing 

 to the superior feeding quality of the home- 

 grown article, foreign cake and feeding stuffs 

 could be largely dispensed with. 



Permanent Pastures 



These require different treatment to per- 

 manent haying lands. Grazed year after year in 

 succession, they have accumulated more or 

 less reserve stores of inert nitrogen and potash, 

 but the phosphates have been carried away 

 in the form of milk, or in the bones and carcases 

 of the live stock, as effectually, and in larger 



