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Plot 3. Fair crop ; rather better tlian Plot 6. 
Plot 4. Rather better than Plot 3. 
Plots 5 and G. Not so good as Plot 4. 
Plots 7 and 8. Very little difference between these and Plots 
5 and 6. 
Plot 9. Rather better than Plots 5, 6, 7, and 8. 
Plot 10. Not so good as any of the preceding plots : many 
clover-plants have died. 
Plot 11. By far the best plot. 
Plot 12. About the same as Plots 5 and 6. 
The after-crop on Plot 10, manured with nitrate of soda and 
superphosphate, appears to have been injuriously affected by the 
nitrate of soda ; whilst, on the contrary, the muriate of potash, 
which in conjunction with superphosphate was applied to Plot 11, 
has had a favourable effect on the after-crop. 
Since saline top-dressings at first check the healthy growth of 
the clover-crop and injurijously affect it, especially in dry weather, 
it is very desirable to apply such dressings quite early in spring. 
Perhaps the middle of February is a good time for putting the 
manure on the land, inasmuch as the saline manures will then 
have a better chance to be thoroughly washed by the rain into 
the soil before an active growth begins than when the applica- 
tion is delayed until a later period. 
Experiments on Clover-Seeds, made in 1868, at Menac/erie Farm, 
Escrick, York, hy Messrs. Coleman and Hull. 
Having obtained, in 1867, very striking results when salts of 
potash and superphosphate, nitrate of soda, and other top- 
dressings were applied to artificial grasses on a very light, poor, 
sandy soil, I was anxious to ascertain whether similar results 
would be realised in another season on land of a similar cha- 
racter on the Escrick estate. 
Mr. Coleman willingly acceded to my request to repeat the 
experiments on another part of the farm, and with the assistance 
of Mr. Hull, who took much interest and an active part in 
carrying out the preceding experiments, a new series was begun 
in the spring of 1868. The same top-dressings which were 
employed in the preceding year were applied again in 1868 to 
eleven plots, of l-20th acre each, of clover-seeds, in precisely the 
same quantities as before. The field, of which 11 adjoining 
plots were set apart, grew an even and healthy-looking plant 
of clover-seeds ; it was a tolerably level field, and apparently 
uniform as tegards depth and its general physical and chemical 
characters. The soil of the experimental clover-field closely 
resembled that on which the top-dressings were tried in 1867 ; 
like the latter, it contained over 90 per cent, of pure and fine 
