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but were destroyed by a late frost. The next year (1893), however^, 

 after manuring with lime (32 ewt ) keinite (8 cwt.) and basic slag (2.4r 

 cwt. per acre), the following amounts of beans and pease were obtained 



per acre : — 



Corn. Straw, 



cwt. cwt. 



Horse-beans ... 11.4 23.7 



Peas ... 12.5 27 8 



Total 23.9 51.5 



These results are interesting, as they were obtained by inoculating 

 from the recently inoculated peaty soil. 



Similar results were obtained by Dr. 0. von Feilitzen ( n the raw^ . 

 peaty soil of Jonkoping, in Sweden. In experiments with pea& he ob- 

 tained an increase of 105 per cent, of corn and 23 per cent, of straw,, 

 and the corn was much better developed under the influence of inocu- 

 lation. 



Some very interesting results were obtain in experiments on laying a 

 field down to grass. The land selected for this purpose was again peaty^ 

 soil which had been burnt, and on which buckwheat had been grown 

 without manure. It had then been left for about five years, and had 

 produced but little vegetation, mainly Holcus mollis, Molinia caerulea 

 and rushes. In 1887, kainite, and basic slag, were applied and buck- 

 wheat sown. Slaked lime (32 cwt. per acre) was very carefully spread 

 over the field acd worked into the soil to a depth of five inches, after 

 which kainite and basic slag were applied, along with marshy soil for 

 inoculation. There were twenty plots, which received, in groups o£ 

 four, 32, 24, 16, and 8 cwt., of soil respectively, whilst those of the 

 fifth group were not inoculated. In April, 1889, oats were sown, re- 

 ceiving 170 lb. of nitrate of soda per acre. In May, clover and grass- 

 were sown in the following amounts per acre : — 



lb. per acre. 



Trifolium pratense ... 0.4 



hybridium ... 0.8 



" repens ... 1,2 



Lotus corniculatus ... 6.1 



Grass ... ... 33.4 



The oats grew well all over the field, but were, of course, not in the- 

 least influenced by inoculation. When, however, the oats were cut the^ 

 favourable effect of the marshy soil on the clover was very marked, 

 whilst without inoculation the plants were generally feebly developed, 

 and there were many gaps. With the smallest amount of inoculating 

 soil (8 cwt. per acre) the clover was more dense, and of a much darker 

 green colour, than where no soil had been applied ; and on the roots of 

 the plants nodules were abundant. The luxuriance of the clover in- 

 creased with the amount of marshy soil applied, but the differences 

 with the various amounts of soil are not to be compared with the effect of 

 the smallest quantity as compared with the uninoculated plots. It is 

 proposed, in future, to apply 16 cwt. of soil per acre to other fields. 

 For the field on which the above experiments were made it will only 



