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mends the application of fifty bushels per acre of well- 

 slacked lime in preparing land for grass in thatsedlion. 

 The lime should be applied to the land after plowing, 

 and should be harrowed in. He recommends a top- 

 dressing of fifteen tons of barn-yard manure per acre in 

 addition to the lime, applied before sowing. If com- 

 mercial fertilizers are used, apply 300 to 600 lbs. of 

 a mixture consisting of 100 lbs. of sodium nitrate, 250 

 lbs. of acid phosphate, and 50 lbs. of muriate of potash. 



Professor Lloyd, of the Mississippi station, recom- 

 mends the following: Cottonseed meal, 800 lbs.; stable 

 manure, 800 lbs. ; kainit, 400 lbs. — composted, applied 

 at the rate of i ton per acre, and plowed under; or, cot- 

 tonseed meal, 500 lbs.; kainit, 300 lbs.; gypsum or 

 slacked lime, 200 lbs. — applied after breaking, and har- 

 rowed in just before seeding. On sandy soils use 300 

 lbs. of phosphate instead of the kainit. 



Professor Mell, of the Alabama station, recommends, 

 in preparing grass-land, the use of stable manure; or, 

 ground bone, 300 to 400 lbs.; cottonseed meal, 100 

 lbs.; nitrate of soda, 50 to 100 lbs. 



Professor Killebrew, formerly of the Tennessee 

 station, recommends the following application to be 

 applied to grass-lands, presumably in early spring: 

 Top-dress with 100 lbs. of nitrate of soda, and three 

 weeks later with 100 lbs. of bone meal or superphos- 

 phate. Where there is clover, gypsum may be ap- 

 plied. Use stable manure freely after the fall rains 

 begin; it is the best of all fertilizers for grass-lands in 

 Tennessee. 



