and Permanent Pasture, 
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guished from the others by an abundant growth of both white 
and red clover. 
The rest of the experimental plots looked pretty much alike. 
Throughout August and September the grass grew so little 
that it was not thought worth while to cut and weigh the second 
crop. Towards the end of October, however, the grass appeared 
to have grown so much more, that it was determined to mow and 
weigh it. 
The plots accordingly were mown on the 30th of October and 
weighed on the same day. The grass was rather damp when cut, 
and consequently weighed rather more than it would have done 
under ordinary circumstances. The first crop was quite dry 
when cut and weighed, and no comparison, therefore, can be 
drawn between the weights of the first and second cuttings. 
Unfortunately the grass on plots 2, 5, and 6 was cut before the 
30th of October, and consequently no mention is made of these 
plots in the following Table, in which is stated the weight of the 
grass of the remaining plots: — 
Table showing the weight of Second Cutting of Grass of Experimental Plots 
at Asli\^ack, Hatfield, and Produce calculated per Acre. 
Ploti. 
Manure used. 
Produce 
per Hot. 
Produce per Acre. 
1 
3 
4 
7 
S 
9 
10 
1 Mineral Superphosphate and Crude 'Pot-\ 
cwt. lbs. 
5 33 
4 31 
4 51 
5 16 
.5 30 
5 ISJ 
4 48i 
2 12 106 
2 2 83 
2 4 62 
2 11 48 
2 12 76 
2 11 73 
2 4 37 
The two guano-plots, it will be seen, gave the heaviest crop, 
and bone-dust had no effect upon the second crop. On November 
the 7th, after the plots were all cleared, forty ewes were put on the 
enclosed experimental acre and kept upon it till November 12th, 
to eat down any grass left uncut. 
Experiments on Permanent Pasture, made in 1868 at Escrick 
Park, York. 
The same manures which were used in the preceding experi- 
ments were employed at Escrick, and in precisely the same 
quantities. There was scarcely any clover in the poor rough 
grass, which grew on a sandy soil of the most infertile character. 
The pasture probably was never dressed before with any manure. 
The long-continued dry and hot weather in the summer of 1868 
told very unfavourably upon the grass, which w-as much burnt. 
