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Moor Cultivation. 



[march, 



Generally nitrogenous manures alone have proved effective 

 and then only when given in a form in which they acted slowly 

 but continuously. Among the means of providing nitrogen, 

 other than the cultivation of lupins or some leguminous plant, 

 may be mentioned the use of peat placed in holes between the 

 plants and the employment of the pine-dust and forest litter 

 in some similar way so as to bring it within reach of the roots 

 of the young plants. 



Manuring with basic slag and sulphate of ammonia has been 

 found effective as means of stimulating pines under 30 years, 

 and the mechanical cultivation of the soil, combined with the 

 application of lime is advantageous. 



The question of utilising and reclaiming the moor and 

 bog lands, which form so considerable a part of the soil of 



Sweden, has received much attention 

 The Swedish during the past twenty years. In 

 Society for 1884, M. de Feilitzen, the Director of 

 Moor Cultivation,* the Chemical Laboratory at Jonkoping, 



visited Denmark, Holland, and Germany 

 on behalf of the Swedish Academy of Agriculture, in order to 

 study the methods adopted in those countries, and conceived 

 the idea of forming an association for the purpose of encouraging 

 the reclamation of bog land. The Swedish Moor Cultivation 

 Society (Schwedischer Moorkultur Verein) was accordingly 

 formed in 1886 with 178 members, a number which rapidly 

 increased until at the present time it reaches 3,400. The 

 subscription is 4s. 6d. per annum, and all the members receive 

 a bulletin, which is published every two months, dealing with 

 the work of the Society and also of similar Societies abroad. 

 The annual receipts amount to about £2,800, as, in addition to 

 the subscriptions, the Society receives a grant of £830 from 

 the State, £250 from the Provincial Government and £670 

 from the Chamber of Agriculture. It has chemical and 

 botanical laboratories at Jonkoping, with an experimental 

 garden, a library and a museum. At Flahult, some seven 

 miles distant, the Society has an experimental farm of 300 acres 

 where field experiments are carried out. 



* See also " The Utilisation of Peat land on the Continent," Journal, June, 1907, 

 vol. xiv, p. 146. 



