The Influence on Crop and Soil of Manures applied to Permanent Meadow

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The experiments reviewed in the preceding pages have been carried out on a light loam soil very poor in lime, in a district of medium rainfall (20–25 inches). The chief conclusions drawn from the results are as follows: 1. Although the heaviest crops have been obtained with an annual application of dung, they are little heavier, and more costly to obtain, than the crops obtained with a biennial application of dung, especially if in the alternate year a light dressing of “artificials” including nitrate of soda be given. 2. A complete mixture of “artificials,” including nitrate of soda, has given good average crops, but not equal to those given by a biennial application of dung. 3. For the soil and other conditions of Garforth nitrate of soda is distinctly better for the hay crop than sulphate of ammonia. This is doubtless largely associated with the poverty of the soil in calcium carbonate.

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