of Manures Applied to Pasture. 



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From these figures it will be seen that in the ninth year 

 the value of the grazing per acre, in the case of land receiving 

 10 cwt. of Basic Slag nine years before, and nothing in the 

 interval, is worth 8s. 3d. per acre more at Cockle Park, and 

 16s. 6d. more at Sevington. The figures below the other 

 stations speak for themselves, and need not be repeated. 

 These results cannot be characterised as anything else than 

 very remarkable. Not only has the initial cost of the manure 

 in the great majority of cases been recovered — in many 

 instances several times over — but at the end of many years 

 the annual value of the land is frequently double, or more 

 than double, what it was to start with. This persistency in 

 the action of Basic Slag, and of phosphatic manures 

 generally, when applied to pasture, is doubtless in large 

 measure due to the accumulations of nitrogen stored up in 

 the land as a result of the stimulus imparted to the legumin- 

 ous plants. 



TABLE XIV. — Amount in Live-weight Pounds per Acre by 

 which Plots 3 and 4 exceeded the Unmanured Plot. 





Cockle 



Park. 



Sevington. 



Cransley. 





Plot 3. 



Plot 4. 



Plot 3. 



Plot 4. 



Plot 3. 



Plot 4. 





lb. 



lb. 



lb. 



lb. 



lb. 



lb. 



1st Year ... ... 



40 



7 



20 



6 



41 



20 



: 2nd ,," ... . ... 



118 



60 



64 



46 



86 



45 



3rd ,, 



■ 163 



65 



49 



33 



41 j 



20 



Total for 3 years ... 



321 



132 



133 



85 



168 



85 



4th Year ... ... 



87 



95 



32 



44 



x 3 





5th „ 



82 



84 



61 



59 



14 



48 



6th 



86 



105 



43 



39 



19 



46 



7th „ 



58 



76 



61 



59 



39 



46 



8th „ ... ... 



52 



61 



59 



5i 



27 



20 



9th 



33 



4i 



66 



68 



# 



* 



Total for 6 years t ... 



398 



462 



322 



320 



112 



172 



Total for 9 years * ... 



719 



594 



455 



405 



280 



257 



* Eight years at Cransley. f Five years at Cransley. 



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