128 PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY PASTURES 



A heavy dressing of cake-fed farmyard manure, applic 

 towards the close of the year, will pay well. Nothing improvi 

 artificial grasses so much, and there must be no niggardline 

 in its use. The fresher the manure when placed on tl 

 ground, and the less it has been allowed to ferment, the bett< 

 the grass will thrive. In the Kidmore grass experimem 

 good results were also obtained from a dressing per aci 

 of one hundredweight of nitrate of soda, with three-quartei 

 of a hundredweight of muriate of potash, given in alternal 

 years. 



