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MINISTRY OP AGKICUl/rUUE AND FISHEKIES. 



M 1 SC !<: ] J . A N liU U S i' I B J jIC ATION S . 



No. 30 Manuring of Pastures for Meat 

 and Milk 



BY 



William Somerville, M.A., D.Sc, 

 Professor of Rural Economy at the University of Oxford. 



The experiments in the Manuring of Poor Pasture Land, 

 which were designed in the first instance by Professor Somerville, 

 and carried out by him for a number of years at Cockle Park, 

 ?^Iorpeth, the experimental farm of the Northumberland County 

 Council, are well known to farmers. They have since been 

 repeated under somewhat varying conditions at other centres 

 in Great Britain 



The Ministry last year invited Professor Somerville to prepare 

 a new and up-to-date Report covering the whole ground relating 

 to the manuring of pastures for meat and milk. In publishing 

 this Report the Ministry desires to direct the attention of farmers 

 to the important and practical character of the information here 

 summarised for their use. The Ministry and Agriculturists are 

 alike indebted to Professor Somerville. 



Price 6d. net. Post free. JUST PUBLISHED. 



No. 32 — Rations for Live Stock 



BY 



T. B. Wood. C.B.E.. M.A., F.I.C., F.R.S., 



Professor of Agricultvre at the University of Cambridge. 



This pamphlet describes a simple general method of working 

 out rations for horses, cattle, sheep and pigs. The method is 

 based on the tables giving the composition and nutritive value 

 of a large number of feeding stuffs, and on the curves shov^ing 

 the relation between live weight and food requirements, which 

 are given at the end of the pamphlet. The meaning of the 

 figures given in the tables, and the method of using them, is 

 explained in the text. Typical rations for all kinds of animals 

 are worked out from the figures and curves. 



Price e,d. net. Post free. JUST PUBLISHED. 



Copies of the above publications may be obtained from the 

 Publications Branch of the Ministry, 10, Whitehall Place. 

 London, S.W.I. 



