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mends the application of fifty bushels per acre of well- 
slacked lime in preparing land for grassin that section. 
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 Ibs. of muriate of potash. 
Professor Lloyd, of the Mississippi station, recom- 
mends the following: Cottonseed meal, 800 Ibs.; stable 
manure, 800 lbs.; kainit, 400 lbs.—composted, applied 
at the rate of 1 ton per acre, and plowed under; or, cot- 
tonseed meal, 500 Ibs.; 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 meaf 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. 
