Report of SoOcIETY’sS MEETINGS. 333 
No amount of potash and phosphates can increase this 
unmanured crop, and a recent analysis of the soil several 
feet down shows that the nitric acid is very small and no 
more upon the mineral manured plot than upon the 
other. When ammonia and nitrates are applied, and 
where the crops of 40 to 50 bushels of wheat per 
acre are grown, we find considerable quantities of nitric 
acid over what we find where none is applied. 
I think your Government has received a copy of our 
works and that they also receive a copy of our annual 
memorandum sheet. I have exhausted all the copies I 
have printed and I am binding up a few more copies to 
send out. 
I take great interest in the Sugar Commission, but it is 
rather difficult to see what the remedy is against a 
Government which appears anxious to destroy all the 
sugar produétion in other countries and makes sugar 
artificially cheap to the great benefit of consumers in this 
country. 
Yours truly, 
(Sgd.) J. B. LAWES. 
Printed copies of the Note on Sugar Cane Experi- 
ments* having been laid on the table the President invited 
discussion on the matter. 
Mr. Scard said he agreed with everything in the paper. 
It was most difficult to find uniformity in fields of any 
size, and even in the experiments of the Colonial Com- 
pany there were great differences in some parts as com- 
pared with others. Professor Harrison had praétically 
arrived at the same results at the Botanic Gardens as the 
Company had on their estates. 
~* See Page 147 ante, 
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