Application of Liquid Manure to Italian Rye Grass. b77 
Tlie second week in April I began to feed it off with ewes and lambs, and they made 
very quick progress, especially the lambs, the grass producing an abundance of milk. 
There were 42 couples, and the grass supplied them three weeks, giving the ewes chatl" 
and oats, and the lambs peas. After this they began to feed it again for want of 
other food. 
I took them off the grass on the 13th of May, and on the I8th of June we mowed 
the whole for hay, which produced nearly 2 loads per acre. This was about live weeks' 
growth. I should not have pursued this plan had I not had tares which I wanted oft' 
the land to sow it with swedes. 
The grass is now growing freely, but not so fast as after feeding off. I want your 
water-cart, 
I am quite satisfied of its being the most valuable plant I know of, especially for 
early spring feed ; it comes to perfection for feed quite as early as rye, and the compa- 
rison between the two for feeding qualities is as 10 to I in favour of the Italian rye 
grass. 
I am so well satisfied of its goodness that I intend sowing a much larger breadth in 
the ensuing autumn after wheat. 
Yours truly, 
J. Hunt. 
Hiiyes Gale, near Uxbridge, July Xst. 
XIII. — Aiialysis of the Soil and Subsoil of a very Productive Field 
near Sutton, in Norfolk. By Dr. Lyon Playfair. 
To the Secretary. 
Sir, — I had the honour to receive from you two portions of soil, described 
as the surface soil and subsoil of a very productive field near Sutton, 
Norfolk. According lo the request of the Council of the .Society, these 
portions have been separately subjected to a rigid analysis : and before 
making any remarks on the results thus obtained, I place for the inform- 
ation of the Council the analysis in two forms, one of these giving the 
actual statement of the analysis, the other indicating the probable method 
in which the ingredients are associated in the soil. 
1. — Surface Soil. 
In 100 parts as actually found. 
Organic matter 
. •2-43 
Hydrate water 
2-00* 
Carbonic acid 
0-92 
Sulphuric acid . 
0-09 
Pliosphoric acid . . 
. 0-38 
Silicic acid and silica 
. 81-26 
Peroxide of iron . 
. 3-41 
Alumina . . 
3-58 
Lime 
1-2S 
Magnesia 
. M2 
Potash 
0-80 
Soda . . 
1-50 
Chlorine 
. a trace 
Loss on analysis 
0-63 
100-00 
In 100 parts as routaiued ui the 
Organic matter 
Hydrate water 
Silica and silicic acid . . 
Peroxide of iron 
Carbonate of lime . 
Sulphate of lime 
Phos])hate of lime (^as in bones) 
Phosphate of magnesia . . 
Magnesia (probably as a silicate) 
Alumina (probably as a silicate) 
Silicate of potash . . 
Silicate of soda . . . 
Chlorine (in combination as salt) 
Loss on analysis . . . 
soil. 
2-43 
2- 60 
78-27 
3- 41 
2- 10 
0-15 
0-08 
0-58 
0- 88 
3- 58 
1- 58 
3-71 
a trace 
0-63 
100-00 
* Water which is not driven off at the boiling point 212'^. 
