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Reference to Table I. will show that the manurial residue of 

 .5 J- cwt. or cake consumed in 1897 (2 cwt) and 1898 (3 J cwt.) 

 had practically the same effect on the herbage — as tested by 

 the sheep — as the residues, two years after application, of 

 the slag of Plot 4, the super of Plot 5, and the dissolved 

 bones on Plot 10. The cake-residues have, in fact, increased 

 the live-weight per acre in 1899 from 481bs. (Plot 6) to io61bs., 

 and if this gain of 581b. be valued at 3fd. per lb. it amounts 

 to 1 8s. 2d., or £3 8s. 2d. per ton, a figure which is practically 

 double that brought out by Lawes and Gilbert's revised 

 Tables. 



As the result of giving sheep cake for two years, and 

 pasturing them for a third year on the herbage grown by 

 the manurial residues, we have the very substantial net 

 gain of 27s. 6d. per acre, as determined by our weights, or of 

 28s. id. as determined by the butcher; and these figures, 

 -divided by three, show an average profit of between 9s. and 

 1 os. per acre per annum. Comparison with the other plots 

 will show that in point of profit Plot 1 comes out third in 

 the series. Of the eight sheep on this plot in 1899, three 

 were prime fat at the end of the season. 



As the sub-plot of No. 1 received at ihe rate of 6 cwt. per 

 •acre of crushed cake in 1897, nothing in 1898, and was on an 

 area in 1899 that had been pastured by sheep getting cake 

 in the two previous years, it is impossible to say precisely 

 what the outlay for manure for the aggregate hay-crop of the 

 three years has been, so that no conclusions as regards 

 profit and loss can be drawn. It may, however, be pointed 

 out that the yield of the hay crop on this plot was fairly 

 satisfactory in 1899, while the herbage was chiefly 

 characterised by the abundance of Yorkshire fog, and the 

 almost complete absence of clover. 



The joint report of the butcher and wool-expert is as 

 follows : — 



"Sheep in healthy growing condition. Wool averaging 

 3lbs. per fleece, longer and stronger in staple than in the 

 case of the sheep of Plots 2 and 6." 



Plots 2 and 8. — The effects of Lime. — Where ordinary lime, 

 at the rate of four tons per acre, was applied , Plot 2) the 



