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Manuring for Meat and Miik, 



[Sept., 



question, whether from the scientific or commercial point of 

 view. Arrangements for the Conference are being made under 

 the direction of a Committee constituted as follows : — 



Chairman— hom) Lambourne, C.V.O., Royal Horticultural Society. 



Vice-chairman — Sir Daniel Hall, K.C.B., Ministry of Agriculture. 

 F. J. Chittenden ^ 



W. CUTHBERTSON f , „ 



> Royal HortK 



C G \ \ix i '^^^ Horticultural Society. 



Martin H. Sutton ) 

 A. D. Cotton \ 



P. G. Dallinger V Ministry of Agriculture. • 

 W. G. LOBJOIT J 



James Wood, Board of Agriculture for Scotland. 

 J. R. Campbell, Department of Agriculture, Ireland. 

 Wilfred Parker, National Institute of Agricultural Botany 



J. R. POAD 



W. H. Morter 



j- National Potato Society. 



Joint \ W. R. Dykes, Royal Horticultural Society. 

 Secretaries 3 H. V. Taylor, Ministry of Agriculture. 



The programme of the Conference covers the breeding and 

 selection of potatoes, industrial and commercial uses, the potato 



industry, and various diseases to which potatoes are subject. 



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'Issued by the Ministry as Miscellaneous Publication No. 30, 

 Professor Somerville's latest summary of the experiments con- 

 Manurin for d^^^^d for the improvement of pasture, 



Meat and Milk ^^^^^ together in a simple and most inter- 

 esting fashion the results obtained from a 

 wide number of centres. The oldest of these, Cockle Park, has 

 had its experiments in existence for about a quarter of a century. 

 The variety of conditions and soils, together with the periods 

 during which the various tests have been conducted, add to the 

 value of the results. The experiments were commenced at a time 

 when basic slag was beginning to command attention as a means 

 of improving pastures. From the commencement of the trials 

 it has been compared with lime, bones, and superphosphate — 

 traditional dressings twenty-five years ago. There was, and 

 still is. the belief that cake must be fed if, on much of our grass- 

 land, stock are to be properly finished. All these methods were 

 included in the experiments from the first, together with tests 

 of phosphates with potash on the one hand, and with nitrogen 

 on the other. The original trials commenced on such lines, ; nd 

 many centres have duplicated them, wholly or in part, while 

 tests at other centres also help to furnish the conclusions arrived 

 at by Professor Somerville 



