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advisable to ascertain whether the land also requires potash 

 manures. For soils which are benefited by slag and aredeficient 

 in potash it is recommended that kainit or muriate of potash 

 should be applied in the spring after the slag has been used, 

 or a dressing of dung may be given : though for poor soils 

 the artificial manure is likely to prove more profitable. On 

 the poorest class of " slag" soils it is well to avoid dung at 

 first, and to apply it two or three seasons after the slag; it is 

 apt to stimulate coarse grasses to the detriment of the clovers, 

 and, moreover, it will seldom pay to use dung for this class of 

 soil if superior grass or tillage land is available upon which 

 it may be used. 



English and Canadian Clover Seed. 



The report of the Agricultural Department of Reading 

 College on the field trials conducted in 1900 contains an 

 account of some observations made at Burghfield on the 

 relative merits of English and Canadian clover seed. Clover 

 seed was sown in afield in 1897, and on the greater part of 

 the field English seed was sown, but a strip through the 

 middle, 2-f acres in area, was sown with Canadian seed. 

 When the clover was cut for hay in 1898 the quantity carried 

 from the land sown with English seed was at the rate of i|- 

 tons per acre, while the portion sown with Canadian seed 

 yielded only half a ton per acre. The second growth was 

 kept for seed, of which one acre of the English clover yielded 

 as much as the 2f acres of Canadian clover. In the following 

 year, 1899, wheat was grown on the field, followed by barley 

 in 1900. When the barley was cut it was noticed that there 

 was an exceedingly good plant of clover, coming from the 

 seed which had fallen in 1898, this had been ploughed in when 

 the land was prepared for wheat, but had been brought near 

 the surface when the barley was sown. As the clover plant 

 was so good, it was left for a crop in 1901. Before the clover 

 was cut the crop was inspected by several agriculturists on 

 June 1 2th this year, and the same difference was observable. 



