3IO Influence of Manures on Mutton. 



in its action than super. During the two years the slag- has 

 produced 2 cwt. more hay than the super, and while 

 both have left a profit, that from the slag, chiefly on account 

 of its lower cost, is much above the other. In the first season 

 the percentage of leguminous herbage is 9 per cent, in both 

 cases, but in 1898 the slag has produced much more Legic- 

 mtnoscBy and especially so in the case of white clover. 



As regards production of mutton the super, surpassed the 

 slag in the first season, whereas the opposite was the case in 

 the second season. On the two years' working the super, has 

 the advantag-e of 3 lbs. per acre of live-weight increase. 



As in the case of the hay and sheep weights, so also in the 

 case of the butcher's valuation, this being in favour of the- 

 super, in 1897, and of the slag in 1898. If the 100 lbs. of 

 phosphoric acid could have been purchased at the same rate 

 in the two forms of slag and super, there would be practically 

 no difference in the financial position of these two manures- 

 on the results of the two years, but on account of the higher 

 price of the super, the net gain is distinctly in favour of the 

 slag. 



The butcher reported/' Plot 5. — Sheep not first-class, rather 

 dry and * chippy ' in the skin, not so good bloom as those, 

 on Plot 4. The mutton proved of a class that is in request,, 

 having a fair proportion of lean to fat." 



The Uninaniired Plot {No. 6). — The LeginninoscTy and 

 especially white clover, were very scarce here, though, on 

 careful examination, tiny clover plants — frequently compris- 

 ing only a single leaf — could be found at the rate of about one 

 per square foot. These plants v^ere very inconspicuous, so- 

 much so, indeed, that a casual observer would have passed 

 them over altogether, and yet, when the proper nourishment 

 was offered to them, they were able in a year to develop to- 

 such an extent as to form the most conspicuous, though not 

 the heaviest, part of the herbage. Nearly 60 per cent, of the 

 herbage consisted of Agrostis^ and on the average of the two^ 

 years' botanical analyses no other species amounted to 6 per 

 cent. The commoner plants, Avithin the narrow limits of 

 that minimum, were sweet scented vernal, cocksfoot, York- 

 shire fog, ribwort, birdsfoot-trefoil, Carex gkmcay Trwdia 



