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hogs. This is well borne out by the enormous mass of evidence 

 from the old world as to the value of the marsh land of various 

 sorts for the production of crops, and particularly for the main- 

 tenance of meat-producing animals. 



There are so-called peat societies in a number of the European 

 countries, and not only peat societies, but peat experiment 

 stations. For instance, at Jonkoping, in Sweden, Prof, von 

 Feilitzen is doing some very interesting and very valuable work 

 on the agricultural utilization of peat and peat lands. Likewise, 

 in Germany, Prof. Tacks, of Bremen, is making important in- 

 vestigations at the Bremen Experiment Station, supported solely 

 and exclusively for the investigation of peat soils and their uses. 

 Similar organizations are found in Austria, in Russia and in 

 other countries. 



In some of the experiments which Prof. Tacks has been 

 carrying on at Bremen, he finds that the best of the marsh land, 

 the polders of North Germany, will produce per acre 250 to 300 

 pounds of beef. That is, the cattle grazing on those marshes 

 will annually yield per acre 250 to 300 pounds of beef. Now 

 there is no good reason why the same method could not be 

 "applied successfully to the reclaimed marshes of other lands. 

 In experiments carried on in Scotland marsh lands had been 

 treated with various fertilizers. Where basic slag or other 

 phosphatic fertilizer was employed, the yield of mutton or beef 

 was found to have increased. Where potash as well as phos- 

 phatic fertilizer was used, the yield of mutton or beef was in- 

 creased still further. In the carrying out of these experiments 

 the land was divided into plots of exactly the same size. Sbme 

 of these received no fertilizer, while others were given definite 

 fertilizer treatment, and animals were kept within the enclosure 

 and grazed. The results show not only that the animals were 

 properly maintained, but that by top-dressing with commercial 

 fertilizer the grazing areas can be made to support and maintain 

 a larger number of animals, and that the individual animal on 

 fertilized land will yield more pounds of beef or mutton or 

 pork than the individual animal on unfertilized land. 



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