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Experimental  Manuring. 
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^  URELl,  if  slowly,  our  knowledge 
of  manures,  their  properties 
with  the  best  means  of  appli¬ 
cation,  grows  wider,  and  some 
at  least  of  the  old-fashioned 
prejudices  in  favour  of  the  contents 
of  the  dung-cart,  and  that  alone,  is 
gradually  disappearing.  Owing  to  its 
mechanical  action  upon  soil  and  power 
of  retaining  moisture  during  periods  of  drought, 
it  is  not  to  be  expected  that  farmyard  manure 
will  ever  wholly  disappear  from  cultivated 
land.  Nor  do  our  most  advanced  scientific 
teachers  propose  that  it  should ;  rather  do 
they  advocate — and  the  results  of  their  experi¬ 
ments  in  most  instances  prove  its  advisability 
— a  combination  of  dung  in  reduced  quantities 
against  the  heavy  dressings  now  so  frequently 
given  in  gardens,  and  artificial  fertilisers  in 
proper  degrees  of  strength. 
In  the  latest  issue  of  the  Royal  Horticultural 
Society’s  .Jourual  nowhere  could  be  found  more 
striking  illustrations,  both  in  printed  matter 
and  pictorially,  of  the  increased  power  of  yield 
given  to  the  soil  by  carrying  out  such  a  policy 
as  is  above  indicated.  I  allude,  of  course,  to 
the  report  of  Dr.  Bernard  Dyer,  entitled  “  The 
Manuring  of  Market-Garden  Crops.”  Most 
interesting  in  this  are  the  tables  given,  showing 
the  cost  of  manuring  with  farmyard  dung 
alone,  both  heavy  and  light  applications,  au3 
combinations  of  this  with  pbosphatic,  potassic 
and  nitrogenous  commodities  in  their  artificial 
forms.  The  comparisons  of  expenditure  alone 
should  prove  of  great  educational  value  to  those 
who  will  carefully  peruse  them,  showing  as 
they  do  iu  favour  of  more  modern  methods  to 
a  startling  degree  against  the  cumbrous  and 
expensive  50  loads  to  the  acre. 
One  of  the  most  striking  results  obtained  iu 
the  whole  of  the  experiments  is  the  value  of 
potash  in  the  culture  of  root-crops.  Parsnips, 
Bay  from  the  Manufacturer  of  all  Horticultural  Sundries — 
C.  E.  WEST,  ROUNDHAY,  HIGHAM  HILL, 
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NO  1201.— VoL.  XLYH.,  Third  Serie.s. 
LONDON  N.E. 
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