324 INFLUENCE OF MANURES ON MUTTON. 

Plot 9.—7 cwt. superphosphate for 1897 and 1900, with 97 lbs. 
sulphate of ammonta for 1897, 70 lbs. for 1898, and &4 lbs. for 
19c0 (total nitrogen = 50°8 Lbs.). 
The use of sulphate of ammonia has not been profitable. 
The net gain of 31s. 9d. made on Plot 5, where super. was 
used alone, has been reduced to 12s. 3d. per acre, where 
sulphate of ammonia has been added to the phosphate. Nor 
has there been any gain in the quality of the pasture ; on 
the contrary, the herbage was scarcely so good as on 
leloie 5 
A light dressing of sulphate of ammonia may prove useful in 
encouraging early growth for some such special object as 
‘early lamb,” but in general its use on poor pastures cannot 
be recommended. 
The salesman valued the sheep at 36s. 6d., and remarked 
that, though thriving, they wanted quality. Four onlv were 
fit to kill. 
The hay sub-plot, aided by the ammonia, carried decidedly 
the heaviest crop of the series, but its feeding properties pes 
be inferred to be deficient. 
Plot 10—6 cw. dissolved bones for 1897, and again for 1900. 
(Total phosphoric acid 200 lbs., total nitrogen 33°8 lbs.) 
The same quantity of phosphoric acid has been applied to. 
Plots g and 10, but the former has had a half more nitro- 
gen. On the whole Plot 10 has done slightly better than its 
neighbour—a result entirely due to the last three months, but 
neither in the quality cf the grass norin the yield of mutton 
is there much to choose between them. 
The salesman valued the sheep at 38s., the average being 
brought up by one particularly good animal. The others 
were a little, but not much, better than those of the last plot. 
Six were taken as being fit to kill. 
There was considerably less hay from this sub-plot than 
from sub-plot 9. In quality the hay from hoth the plots was. 
much alike. 
Plot 11.— 15 cwt. basic slag (300 lbs. phosphoric acid) t1 
November, 18099. 
In 1897 this plot received 1 cwt. sulphate of ammonia, 
