of Manures Applied to Pasture. 



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of live-weight increase worth 48s. 3d. being all that was 

 secured for an expenditure on cake of £3 17s. 6d. 



The figures dealing with cake-residues at five other stations 

 are inserted in Table XL, and they also show that, at many 

 stations, the after-effects of cake are very small. 



TABLE XI. — Effects of Cake Residues at Minor Stations. 





No. of 

 Years 

 Cake 

 consumed. 



Quantity 

 used per 

 Acre. 



No of 

 Years 

 Res dues 

 tested. 



Live-weight 

 Gain pro- 

 duced Ly 

 Residues. 



Value 

 of Live- 

 weight. 



Value of the 



Cake 

 Residues re- 

 covered per 

 ton of Cake 

 consumed. 







lb. 





lb. 



£ s. d. 



£ s. d. 



Hatley .. 



2 



576 



3 



40 



0 10 0 



1 19 0 



Yeldham ... 



2 



1,036 



1 



'4 



036 



076 



Sunderland Hall 



4 



1,240 



2 



21 



0 5 3 



096 



Boon * 



4 



2.044 



2 



53 



0 13 0 



0 14 3 



Naemoor 



4 



870 



2 



12 



030 



078 



* Cattle-grazing rather obscured this matter at Boon. 



In summing up the results of the Scottish experiments, 

 Mr. Hendrick, the chemist of the Society, states: "The feed- 

 ing of cake gave the worst return of all for the expenditure. 

 So far as the experiments show, very little result is recoverable 

 from the manure value of cake on these soils." 



The question of the use of cake for stock on pasture is 

 a very important one, whether regarded from the point of 

 view of profit on the stock, or of improvement of the pasture, 

 or of both. If pasture is so poor that it will not fatten stock, 

 a farmer should give very careful consideration to the subject 

 before he decides to incur expenditure on cake. He would 

 probably do better to change his system of farming, and to 

 give up the fattening of stock, depending rather on the 

 breeding of store stock. But if his grass-land responds to 

 treatment with phosphates, there is no doubt as to the course 

 he should pursue — no matter whether he feeds or breeds — and 

 that is to dress with Basic Slag. In these experiments there 

 have been many instances where sheep have actually increased 

 more per head throughout the season, getting nothing but 

 slagged pasture, than where, on untreated ground, they have 

 been eating \ to 1 lb. per head per day of high-class cake. 

 (See p. 23.) In my opinion it is unprofitable, in the great 

 majority of cases, to give cake to stock at grass, and the 

 worst possible conditions for the use of cake are when it is 



