162 INFLUENCE OF MANURES ON GRASS LAND. 

Slag always equalled or excelled super. where applied along 
with nitrate of soda and kainit to the stations of Set 1, but 
this result is not borne out in the second set of stations. 
Probably the popular idea that it is largely a question of 
soil is the right one. 
Table X.—Effects of Manures on Leguminose (Set 2). 







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Manures per Acre. Brampton. Gosforth. Kirkbampton. | Wigton. 









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An) a | om ) SM ee | Sas Sma ee Sse) Se aera 
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Whos |] Nees |} Mess |} Was. IIlowtes) 4 1 ibs. Il Gute || 5 Ibs. || cwt.| % | Ibs. |}ewt.| 7 
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Tia) ome poceeeed fea hoe z | 27} | 2°4| 73 || 29| 06] x9 || 268 | 173 



















The influcnce on Leguminose of Kainit.—One of the most 
conspicuous rgsults of the Rothamsted investigations is the 
demonstration of the dependence of the Leguminose ona 
plentiful supply of available potash. ‘This result has been 
amply confirmed in the experiments under discussion. With 
a single exception—that is to say, fifteen times in sixteen— 
the Leguminose are much more abundant where kainit is 
applied than where it is withheld. The one exception, too, 
can be easily explained, being due to the fact that at Glasson 
Plot 3 contained an altogether abnormal amount of I’. cracca, 
so that the kainit plot with which it compares—No. €&—shows 
a slight falling off in total Leguminose. Averaging the four 
plots that got no kainit at each of the four stations of Set 1 
—that is 16 plots in all—with the 16 corresponding plots. 
that received annually 24 cwt. of kainit per acre in 1896- 
