of Manures Applied to Pasture. 



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slag, with the comparative effects of slag and superphos- 

 phate, and with the results of using cake. 



In the same year a similar set of plots, with one in addition, 

 were put down on stiff clay pasture near Yeldham in Essex. 

 The land proved rather unsuitable for sheep, and the experi- 

 ments were discontinued after four seasons. 



In order to test the effects of manures on pasture on gravel,, 

 some park land was taken in hand near Norwich in 1901, but 

 as the sheep proved incapable of dealing with the coarse- 

 herbage that grew on this area, the experiment was discon- 

 tinued after the second season. 



Two plots, one unmanured and one treated with J- ton basic 

 slag, were put down by the East Suffolk County Education 

 Committee in association with Cambridge University on poor 

 boulder clay near Saxmundham for the season of 1905. By 

 the kindness of the Committee I have obtained an abstract 

 of the results for the past five years, and diese will be referred 

 to in due course. 



These, so far as I know, are all the experiments of the 

 type under consideration in England. 



Experiments in Scotland. 



In Scotland seven stations dealing with a limited number of 

 problems were laid down in 1901. The selection and 

 management of these stations was undertaken by the High- 

 land and Agricultural Society of Scotland, in association with 

 the Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Agriculture, 

 the initiative having come from the Board of Agriculture and' 

 Fisheries, who made a money grant on account of equipment 

 and maintenance. Six of these stations were carried on for 

 seven years, including one preliminary year without manure. 

 They were distributed throughout the following counties : — 

 Berwick, Selkirk, Perth, Dumfries, Lanark, Kirkcudbright, 

 and were generally placed on poor upland pasture, at altitudes 

 varying from 600 to 1,200 feet. The standard size of plot was 

 four acres, though at one station it was only three. The object 

 of this series of stations was to ascertain how far the main 

 results of the Tree Field experiment at Cockle Park were 

 applicable to Scottish conditions. Two exhaustive reports 

 have appeared in the Transactions of the Highland and Agri- 



