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Rei were WeanOihewe AND NMISCPELANEOUS NOTES. 
ERADICATION OF MOSS.IN PASTURES. 
In an earlier number of this Journal* a short. account 
was given of some experiments undertaken at the South- 
Eastern Agricultural College at Wye to test the effects 
of mechanical and chemical treatment for the eradica- 
tion of moss from grass land. Small plots of pasture on 
two of the college fields have been under such treatment 
for the past two years. The fields are both thin pastures 
on a light loam, with chalk a few inches below. ‘They are 
always grazed, and are particularly subject to a dense 
srowth of moss in the winter. As none of the reasons 
usually assigned for the presence of moss, such as sourness, 
deficient aeration, or great poverty of the soil seemed to 
apply in this case, the plots were set out to try the effects of 
various methods of mechanical and chemical treatment. 
The former consisted in subjecting each of three separate 
plots in both fields to one of the following processes :— 
ty biftine the turf; 2, rolling; 3, raking. In the chemical 
trial plots were dressed respectively with sugar, sulphuric 
acid, lime, superphosphate, basic slag, salt, and sulphate 
of iron. 
From a report of the results of the experiments of the past 
two years, published in the Journal of the South-Eastern 
Agricultural College in April last, it appears that the chemical 
treatment has had little or no apparent effect. The soil is 
very chalky, and consequently lime and basic slag had 
done no particular good, though superphosphate seems to 
have fed the grass a little, and so kept the moss down. Of 
the mechanical processes the rolling has been most effective. 
The rolled plots are now almost free from moss, and the 
beneficial effects of the continued rolling are very manifest. 

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