i6 Influence on the Production of Mutton 



Cransley approaches closely to Cockle Park. In the pre- 

 liminary season's grazing without manures the live-weight 

 increases per acre varied between 43 lbs. on Plot 10 and 

 57 lbs. on Plot 8. Plot 6 (the unmanured one) gave 54 lbs. 

 per acre, which is slightly above the mean for the 10 plots. 

 (See Table VI.) 



This station proved to be rather an unsatisfactory one. 

 The excessive rainfall of 1903 affected the plots somewhat 

 unequally, and, in particular, Plot 5 — in some respects the 

 most important plot of all — was considerably injured. As 

 a consequence, the results began to show undesirable irregu- 

 larity, and the station was discontinued at the end of the 

 eighth season. It is therefore not strictly comparable with 

 the others throughout, but so far as it has gone it has yielded 

 useful confirmatory results. 



In Table VII. the nine years' results at Cockle Park and 

 Sevington and the eight years' results at Cransley are repre- 

 sented graphically, in order to show how close is the relative 

 agreement between the three stations. All the figures at 

 Sevington are much higher than at Cockle Park and Cransley, 

 but the trend of the figures is in all cases the same, with 

 two exceptions, namely, that whereas at Cockle Park ground 

 lime added to superphosphate has acted better than potash, 

 similarly used, at Sevington and Cransley potash has done 

 slightly the better. Also at Cransley dissolved bones have 

 produced less mutton than a mixture of superphosphate and 

 sulphate of ammonia, while at the other two stations the 

 position is reversed. 



Other experiments in England. 



These three stations in Northumberland, Hants, and 

 Northants being all of the same extent, and being, in 

 fact, exact duplicates of each other, are chiefly relied on 

 for the results that are about to be discussed, but certain 

 smaller stations must also be referred to. For the season 

 1900 five plots of si acres each were put down on some very 

 poor wet clay at Hatley, near Cambridge, and were continued 

 for five years, namely, till the end of 1904. They were con- 

 cerned with the effects of large and small dressings of basic 



