328  Final  Report  on  Grass  Experiments,  1895-1904. 
(4  tons  per  acre)  is  full  of  clover,  and  is  closely  grazed.  The 
line  of  demarcation  of  the  plot  is  very  marked,  and  it  is 
noticeable,  too,  that  on  this  plot  buttercup  and  sorrel,  both 
abundant  on  the  other  plots,  are  quite  absent. 
These  experiments  at  Barnsley  form  a most  valuable  and 
instructive  series,  and  are  indeed  worth  going  miles  to  see. 
County  Locality  Formation 
18.  Herefordshire  Morton  Jeffries,  Hereford  Old  red  sandstone 
The  soil  of  the  field  is  a rather  heavy  red  clay  loam.  It 
has  abundant  lime  (0'82  per  cent.),  but  is  poor  (0T2  per  cent.) 
in  phosphoric  acid.  The  pasture  has  been  down  nineteen  years. 
There  was  a good  deal  of  twitch  on  it  at  first,  but  good  grasses 
were  there  also,  with  stunted  white  clover.  The  field  as  a 
whole  has  considerably  improved  since  the  experiments  began, 
and  this  improvement  is  hardly  traceable  to  any  one  manurial 
application  in  particular,  but  more  probably  to  its  better 
general  treatment.  The  different  applications  comprised 
mineral  superphosphate,  basic  slag,  bone  meal,  dissolved  bones, 
superphosphate,  and  kainit,  and  one  part  was  also  re-seeded. 
The  differences  between  the  plots  are  not  marked,  and  if  any 
treatment  has  done  better  than  another  it  is  the  use  of  basic 
slag  (8  cwt.  per  acre).  Clover  has  decidedly  increased  here  and 
Yorkshire  fog  has  greatly  diminished.  The  next  best  plot  is 
that  with  mineral  superphosphate  alone  (4  cwt.  per  acre). 
County  Locality  Formation 
19.  Herefordshire  Bodenham  (England’s  Gate,  No.  10)-  Old  red  sandstone 
This  was  a field  of  very  poor  pasture,  now  twenty-nine  years 
old,  and  always  grazed,  cake,  however,  not  being  given.  The 
principal  grass  was  twitch.  Accoi’ding  to  analysis  the  soil 
should  not  be  bad,  it  containing  an  abundance  (3‘83  per  cent.) 
of  lime,  with  0'18  per  cent,  of  phosphoric  acid,  and  0‘54  per 
cent,  of  potash.  For  some  reason,  however,  the  explanation  of 
which  we  cannot  supply,  the  different  manurial  applications 
have  failed  to  give  any  very  marked  benefit.  Lime,  as  might 
be  expected  on  such  a soil,  was  not  required ; bone  meal  has 
not  told  ; and  though  mineral  superphosphate  (3  cwt.,  with 
kainit,  2 cwt.,  per  acre),  and  basic  slag  (8  cwt.  per  acre)  have 
both  done  good,  the  effects  are  not  nearly  so  marked  as  in 
other  cases.  On  the  whole,  basic  slag  has  done  best,  but  even 
here  the  effect  would  seem  to  be  worked  out  and  further 
application  needed.  It  is  more  prol)able,  however,  that  the  main 
fault  lies  not  in  the  soil-constituents,  but  in  the  need  of  breaking 
up  the  soil,  and  laying  it  down  afresh  with  suitable  seeds. 
County  Locality  Formation 
20.  Herefordshire  Bodenbam  (England’s  Gate,  No.  13)  Old  red  sandstone 
This  is  a field  which  has  been  allowed  to  “tumble  down” 
to  grass.  Twitch,  Yorkshire  fog,  and  dogstail  are  the  chief 
