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Leeds experiments (cont.) : 



Nitrate of Soda on Barley, 22 

 Salt on Barley, 32 



Liming, 3, 59 



Liquid manure, 14, 31 



Lucerne, failure of, 3 



Mangolds, manuring of, 16, 17, 40 

 Manures : 



Composition of Artificials, 35 

 of Farmyard, 15 



Valuation of, 35 

 (See also Farmyard Manure and the 



separate headings for Artificials) 

 Midland Agricultural College experi- 

 ments : 



Manuring of Pasture land, 66 

 Milk, manuring for, 66 

 Moisture in soil, effect of farmyard 



manure, 11 

 Moorland pasture, 67 

 Muriate of Ammonia, 25 

 Mutton, manuring for, 63 



Nitrate of Lime, 23 



of Soda, 22, 42 

 Nitrogenous manures, 21 

 Nitrolim, 25 



Northumberland experiments, see Arm- 

 strong College 



Oats, manuring of, 47 



Pasture land, manuring of, 60 

 Peas, manuring of, 48 

 Phosphatic manures, 26, 59 

 Potassic manures, 29 



substitutes for, 29-33, 59 

 Potatoes, manuring of, 18, 19, 25, 32, 



38 

 subsoiling for, 1 



Rape cake, 26 



Rape (grown for sheep feed), manuring 



for, 41 



Residual manurial value, 8 

 Rothamsted experiments: 



Barley, effect of nitrate of soda on 



quality, 22 



Cake feeding, effect on dung, 20 

 Dung + Artificials for Swedes, 16 

 Farmyard manure: 



Economical making, 10 



Effect in conserving moisture in 



soil, 11 

 Loss in storing, 12, 13 



Rothamsted experiments (cont.) : 

 Hay land, manuring of, 52, 53, 55 

 Lime on crops, 4, 5 

 Sewage sludge, 26 

 Shoddy as manure, 25 

 Subsoiling for Potatoes, 1 

 Wheat, manuring for, 23, 24, 43, 44, 

 45 



Salt as manure, 31 

 Saxmundham experiments: 



Dung + Artificials, 16 



Manuring of Grass land, 56 

 Seaweed, 30 



Seeds mixture, manuring of, 48 

 Sewage sludge, 26 

 Shoddy, 25 

 Somerset experiments: 



Manuring of Potatoes, 39 

 Soot, 23 

 Storage of manures: 



Artificials, 37 



Farmyard manure, 12 

 Subsoiling, 1 



Sulphate of Ammonia, 23 

 Superphosphate, 26 

 Swedes, see Turnips 



Turnips, manuring of, 16, 28, 40 



Unit values of fertilising constituents, 

 34 



Valuation of manures, 33 



Weeds should be exterminated, 6 

 West of Scotland College experiments: 



Effect of lime, 4 



Manuring of Oats, 47 

 of Potatoes, 39 



Phosphates on Turnips, 28 



Time to apply dung, 10 

 Wet climates require phosphates, 27 

 Wheat, increased yield by increasing 

 manurial dressings, 24, 44 



Following wheat or oats, 43, 46 



Manuring of, 42 

 Wiltshire experiments: 



Manuring of Potatoes, 39 



of Wheat, 43 

 Woburn experiments: 



Salt on Mangolds, 31 



Yield, increased by extra manure, 23 

 Yorkshire experiments, see Leeds 



