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of the stations, and eight years at the other (Cransley) the 

 nett profit per acre (see Tables IV., V., VI.) is greater where 

 the 10 cwt. of slag was put on in one dose in the first year 

 (Plot 3) than where it was put on in two equal portions, 

 namely, for the first and fourth years (Plot 4), the respective 

 advantages per acre in favour of the former method being 

 £1 us. 3d (Cockle Park), 12s. gd. (Sevington), and 5s. gd. 

 (Cransley). 



At Sevington and Cransley there is no evidence that the- 

 "condition" of Plot 4 is better than that of Plot 3 at the 

 end of the ninth and eighth years respectively, though there 

 is such evidence at Cockle Park. When the whole period of 

 nine years is considered the evidence is conclusively in favour 

 of a heavy dose of Basic Slag at one dressing, rather than 

 the same amount of slag applied in two portions separated 

 by a three-years' interval. 



The effects of applying 5 cwt. per Acre of Basic Slag in the- 

 height of Summer. 



As time went on it became evident that the dressing of 

 four tons per acre of common lime applied to Plot 2 at 

 Cockle Park, Sevington, and Cransley would furnish no 

 results of positive utility. At the writer's suggestion it was 

 therefore resolved to test the effects of putting 5 cwt. (100 lbs. 

 P 2 0 5 ) of Basic Slag per acre on to this plot at Sevington 

 in the middle of the summer of the seventh season (1907). At 

 the end of the second month's grazing at that station, there- 

 fore, namely on June 13th, the slag was applied, its action 

 being helped by showery weather during the next few weeks. 

 Up to this time Plot 2 had been but little better than Plot 6> 

 (unmanured), but within a few weeks of the slag being put 

 on its effects could be detected. In his report for that year 

 Mr. Ashcroft says* : — "The application of 5 cwt. Basic Slag 

 to this plot on June 13 wrought a marvellous transformation. 

 It is commonly said Basic Slag requires time and plenty of 

 rainfall before any effect can be seen, but by the August 

 weighing, eight weeks afterwards, the change in the appear- 

 ance of the plot was quite evident, and all through the follow- 

 ing two months perfectly remarkable ; plenty of healthy- 

 looking small clover herbage all over the plot. It is most 



* Jour. Bath and West Soc, 1908, p. 115. 



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