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clover will give us a splendid hay which will compare very 

 favorably with the very best of alfalfa. [Applause.] 



Question. I would like to ask Professor Brooks what 

 fertilizer he puts on this land. 



Professor Bkooks. A mixture of basic slag and sulphate 

 of potash, about 500 pounds to the acre of the slag meal and 

 150 of high-grade sulphate of potash. On some parts of 

 the mowing, in place of the high-grade sulphate, we have used 

 low-grade sulphate on the top, 300 pounds to the acre; and 

 in other parts, in addition to the slag meal and potash, we 

 are using nitrate of soda in varying quantities, from 150 

 pounds to the acre, on some portions, to 250 pounds on others. 

 With slag and potash in the quantities which I have indi- 

 cated, and adding about 150 pounds of the nitrate of soda, 

 we get a splendid crop with a large proportion of clover. 



Evening Session. 

 The evening session was called to order by Secretary 

 Wheeler at 7.15 p.m., and he introduced as the chairman of 

 the evening, Mr. John Bursley. Mr. Bursley, after a brief 

 reference to the long and effective services of ex-Secretary 

 J. Lewis Ellsworth to the agricultural interests of the State, 

 called upon ex-Secretary Ellsworth for an address on " Rural 

 Credit and Co-operation in Europe." 



