154 INFLUENCE OF MANURES ON GRaSS LAND. 
Of the sixteen separate tests carried out on the four stations 
of Set 1, fourteen showed that kainit has a repressing 
influence on the growth of Agrostis. The two exceptions were 
met with on the peat of Glasson, the one occurring where 
kainit was used alone, and the other where it was added to 
nitrate of soda—both irrational methods of application. Used, 
as it should be, along with phosphate—either with or without 
nitrogen—there is no exception to the tendency of kainit 
to reduce the percentage of Agrostis. 
The influence on Agrostis of Lime.—At each of the stations 
of Set 2 two plcts (Nos. 15 and 16)* received precisely similar 
amounts of a mixture of artificials, the only difference in the 
treatment of these plots consisting in the application of 5 cwt. 
per acreof pulverised lime to Plot 16 for each of the crops of 
1895, 1897,-1898. The influence of the lime was very slight, 
so far as the aggregate yield of hay is concerned, but its 
effect on Agrostis was striking and conclusive, for 1n no case 
did it fail to reduce both the percentage and weight of this 
plant. 
COCKSFOOT (TABLES III. AND IV.). 
This grass was fairly abundant at five of the eight stations, 
Table [I1l.—E ffects of Manures on Cocksfoot (Set 1). 

















N anures per acre. Blencow. Castle Carrock. Eskdale. 
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Ze |e P -| Hay. | Cocksfoot. ||Hay.| Cocksfoot. ‘Hay. Cocksfoot. 
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lbs Ib lbs lbs Ibs. |} cwt lbs. |] cwt [ Ibs. || cwt. Ibs 
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1 _ = _ ~_ — 233 | 3°9 to2 || 22 | 156 | 384 | 27 | 122 368 
2 mi® |} = — — — 283 | 2°4 76 || 283 | 6°6 212 || 33 ores 495 
2 oe9 bok 280 a nae yell : ne | > = ok x 
3 2 35x || oO 35 |] 22 5°2 128 || 263 | 112 332 
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4\| — —_— — 208 | — 33% | s"2 196 || 21} | 7°5 182 || ett | 8-2 107 
5 — == — = 280 32% | 3°7 135 || 22 | 10°3 253 |} 244 | 1575 420 
6 || zz2]| — 280 | — — 331 | 72 268 || 23 Sou 131 || 31% | 92 327 
7 I12 = —_ — 280 28h rh 35 || 255 6°7 rgr || 37% | 147 621 
8 —_ _— 280 |; — 280 ae} Tes 42 || 254 | 42 118 || 37 13‘2 547 
9 112 | — 280 | — 280 29; | 6°0 196 || 263 70 207 | 383 | 672 267 
IO 112 - — 208 | 280 29 I4°2 461 || 233 8°6 248 | 38 8°6 366 
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II rr2 | — I40 | 104} 280 29% | It7 383 || 273 | 3°6 Tro || 35 | zz 458 
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12 |) — 860) a leecoulezca 243 | 11°8 327 || 303 | 7°8 | 265 , 30} | 10°9 369 
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