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WHAT 5IANURES TO APPLY. 

 HKSn.T OF SKCIONI) MOWIXJJ OX AUlil'ST llTii; 



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A little gypsum or plaster on clover, only a half bushel to the 

 acre, will often increase the yield in an astonishing manner, 

 making the gyi)sum worth ^1:25 j)er ton. In some Ciises it will 

 do scarcely if any good. This is the case usually on wet land or 

 in Very wet seasons. 



Jlr. l^awes states the following in the Indiana Farmer for 

 1883, in reference to fertilizing i)asturos in tho United States: 



" Where pasture is constantly mown, the removal of tho potash 

 from the soil becomes in time ver}' large. Taking into account 

 the price obtained for hay in the states, I think it is very doubtful 

 whether restoration of fertility by means of artificial manures, 

 might not be too costly, and I should be disposed to think that a 

 more economical process for such restoration, would be by feeding 

 animals on tho jiasture with corn or cake. 



"The quality of the pastures at Rothamsted has been wonder- 

 fully improved by giving a certain amount of cotton cake to the 

 stock fed upon them ; and it is my opinion, that if at any time 

 the blue-grass should retire from a pasture before an invading 

 army of weeds and inferior grasses, the manure from cotton 



