WHAT MANURES TO APPLY. 



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Ag. Soc, p. 335,1809: "After much experience, I think ma- 

 nuring grass lands is one of the Avorst subjects to treat. I luivo 

 seen bones a))pliecl and produce no good whatever; and on the 

 otlier liand, I liave seen tliem used witli immense advantage. I 

 luive seen guano i)roduce a splendid crop, while the year follow- 

 ing the crop has been worse than before guano was ajtplied. It 

 is impossible to give any definite rules without knoM'ing the 

 kind of land to be manured, and other attendant circumstances. 

 Still money judiciously laid out in the im})rovement of grass 

 land brings in a more certain return than where exj)ended in the 

 growth of wheat." 



In 1804 Dr. K. C. Kedzie, of ^lichigan Agricultural College, 

 7nade some experiments in top dressing the iirst year after seed- 

 ing to Timothy and clover with oats. The dressing was applied 

 from the 5tli to the 10th of May on a soil of tandy loam of mod- 

 erate fertility. 



RESULT OF FIRST MOWING, JUNE 218t: 



