Manuring oi Seeds Hay (Midland Agric. and Dairy Coll., Repts. 

 on Expts., 1907-908). The Journal of the Board of Agriculture. 

 London, October 1909, vol. XVI, n. 7, p. 590. 



** These trials have now been carried on for five years for the 

 purpose of ascertaining whether this crop can be profitably treated 

 with artificial manures. Plots at a number of farms were dressed 

 with different mixtures of artificials and compared with unmanured 

 plots. The results are considered to show that: 



1) The seeds hay crop can be profitably treated with artificial 

 manures, even in a prolific season, and on good land. 



2) It is better to apply a complete dressing i. e., one 

 containing nitrogen, phosphates and potash rather than an incom- 

 plete one. 



3) Unit for unit the nitrogen contained in the two manures, 

 sulphate of ammonia and nitrate of soda, is of equal value to this 

 crop. The user's choice should, therefore, be in accordance with 

 the cost per unit. 



4) In these trials muriate of potash (potassium chloride) was 

 the only form of potash which gave a profitable return, and then 

 only when applied within the first fourteen days of March. 



"The following mixture per acre is recommended as giving the best 

 and most profitable yields: 105 Ib. potassium chloride (50 Ib. potash) 

 applied within the first fourteen days of March, followed by 130 Ib. 

 sulphate of ammonia (25 Ib. nitrogen), 216 Ib. superphosphate 

 (25 Ib. phosphoric acid), applied within the first fourteen days of 

 April ". 



E. KINCH. Experiments on Permanent Grass Land, 1910, at 

 Cirencester. [Royal Agricultural College] . Agricultural Stu- 

 dents Gazette, Vol. XV, part I, August 1910. Cirencester. 



Experiments were continued on the 20 plots, each 1/20 acre 

 (202 sq. meters) used the last nineteen years or more (see Agri- 

 cultural Students' Gazette since 1889). 



The manures applied to each plot are the same in kind and in 

 amount as in the previous years. 



This is the 23d year in succession for the application of the 

 same manures to plots i to 14; the 22nd year of the farm-yard 

 manure plots; and the i9th year of the Thomas' basic slag and 

 rape meal. 



