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to use nitrate. Possibly a combination — some sulphate at seed 
time, and some nitrate later on — would be even better. 
Mr. Bernard Dyer conducted the scientific part of this 
enquiry, and made the various analyses required. 
3. Royal Manchester, Lm:EP00L, and North Lancashire 
Agricultdral Society. 
This Society has undertaken an extensive scheme of experi- 
ments, which are now in progress, but these being upon per- 
manent pasture and grasses, there is at present nothing special 
to report. 
4. Yorkshire Agricultural Society. 
The scheme for experiments on swedes, put forward by the 
Royal Agricultural Society of England, was taken up by this 
Society. Three gentlemen in different districts conducted them 
on their farms, viz. : — 
Mr. J. Watson, of Gardham, Cherry Burton. 
Mr. J. WiGHTMAN, of Hampole Priory, Doncaster. 
Mr. G. Weight, of Sigglesthorne Hall, Hull. 
Mr. Watson occupies a fine wold-farm on a chalk subsoil ; 
Mr. Wightman's land is on Magnesian Limestone ; and 
Mr. Wright's farm is on the drift formation of Holderness. 
Mr. Thomas Fairley, F.R.S.E., the Consulting Chemist to the 
Society, made the analyses of soils, manures, «Scc., in connection 
with the experiments, and generally directed them on the 
scientific side. 
Mr. Fairley's analyses of the three different soils were: — 
100 Paris of Fine Soils dried at 212'' Fahr. contain:— 
Gabsbav. 
Hampolk ! SlOGI-ES- 
THOSKE. 
78-35 
86 17 
88-05 
1-74 
2-87 
2-42 
5-34 
4-47 
3-52 
3-27 
0-42 
0-86 
0-37 
0-34 
0-47 
0-30 
0-28 
0-33 
0-94 
103 
1-08 
007 
0-05 
0-03 
0-28 
0 13 
009 
1-S8 
0-54 
0-69 
7-36 
3-70 
2-46 
100 00 
100-00 
100 00 
0 28 
0-13 
0-11 
0;i4 
010 
0-13 
