of Manures Applied to Pasture. 



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be profitable in the early part of the season, assuming that 

 the pastures are clean and fairly fresh. 



Not only does cake give a disappointing return throughout 

 the grazing season as a whole, but its effects in the latter part 

 of the season are also poor. At Sevington, for instance, in 

 1902 the gains per acre per month were as follows for all the 

 sheep (9) that went through the season from start to finish on 

 Plots j and 3 : — 





Sevin 



gton. 





Plot 1. 

 Sheep getting 

 cake. 



Plot 3. No cake. 

 \ Ton slag applied 

 for previous season. 



1st month 

 2nd ,., 



3rd „ 

 4th ,, 

 5th „ 



lb. 

 67 

 41 



35 

 16 



12 (loss) 



lb. 



57 

 41 



36 

 30 

 r (loss) 



Total 



147 



163 



It will be seen that although the gain on the cake plot 

 was greater in the first month than on Plot 3, the gains in 

 the next three months were no greater with cake than on the 

 plot where sheep got no cake, but had the benefit of the 

 improved pasture produced by Basic Slag. In the last month 

 the cake was less able to arrest loss of weight in the sheep 

 than was the Basic Slag of Plot 3. 



The other question regarding the use of cake is concerned 

 with the effects of the manurial residues on the pastures. 



At Cockle Park, Sevington, and Cransley, Decorticated 

 Cotton Cake was fed for the first two years to the sheep on 

 Plot 1, and for the next four years the sheep got nothing but 

 pasture. In this way it was hoped to gain information as to 

 the value of the residues of manure left by the consumption 

 of the cake in the first two years. Table IX. brings together 

 the figures for these stations, from which it will be seen that 

 all the stations show the effects of cake-residues, which are 

 greatest at Sevington and least at Cransley. Working out 

 the values of the residues on the basis of the live-weight 

 increase produced, we get the figures on the last line of the 



