1922.] 



The Clydesdale. 



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sumption which the authorities of that city have managed to 

 obtain among local farmers. 



It has been proposed to add soot to the town refuse, but this 

 would not be a sound procedure. During the War an enter- 

 prising person offered 100,000 tons of enriched town refuse free 

 on rail at £3 per ton : the composition of the mixture was : — 



Total nitrogen . . l'22°/ a 

 Ammoniacal nitrogen 0*52 /., 



Potash (K 2 0) ... 0'80 9 / o 

 Phosphoric acid (P a O.,) 0'30 / Q 



This of course would have been a very dear fertiliser. The 

 figures are quoted as showing how uniform the material is in 

 composition : if we deduct the ammoniacal nitrogen (which is 

 mainly soot) from the total we arrive at a composition which 

 is very similar to the figures given in Table I, viz., nitrogen 0.7 

 per cent., phosphoric acid (P. T 0-) 0.3 per cent., potash (K 2 0) 

 0.8 per cent. 



These modern prepared wastes are well worth attention by 

 farmers, and trial lots may usefully be put on the root and 

 cabbage land, and possibly also used for hay on stiff clay soils. 

 A test has been started at Bothamsted, and other experimental 

 farms might consider the possibility of arranging for trials. 



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THE CLYDESDALE. 



A. MacNeilage. 



The Clydesdale is the Scottish breed of draught horses. Its 

 name indicates its origin. Clydesdale is the old name for the 

 county of Lanark, through which flows the river Clyde. The 

 Clydesdale is the horse that was originally moulded into its 

 established type and form by farmers holding land in the valley 

 of the Clyde. Its fortunes, since the middle of the eighteenth 

 century at least, have been identified with the Eoyal burgh 

 of Lanark. There in the eighteenth and the earlier part of 

 the nineteenth century annual fairs were held at wLich mobs 

 of young colts and fillies w r ere sold to dealers and drafted into 

 England. Another old-time fair was held at Biggar, higher up 

 the Clyde Valley, and there also was done a notable trade in 

 young Clydesdales. Now for thirty years past in the 

 town of Lanark, under modern conditions, most extensive 

 auction sales of Clydesdales — mainly yearlings and two-year- 

 olds — have been held. Lanark and Clydesdale are emphatically 

 the home of the Scottish breed of draught horses. 



How farmers in the area referred to first came to fix their 



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