Show manures for grasses nearly all tile tiie ex experiments perl peri which have been made manewith ma dewith with artificial manures for grass grasses esp esy indicate that like wheat bailey oats etc the tha grasses proper such as timothy rye grass etc require a large amount of ammonia in the park at Roth amsted which has been gingrass in grass fora great number of years and the crop frequently made into hay and removed from the land manures containing much ammonia were very beneficial benefi col cul on the grasses while those furnishing potash soda and other inorganic substances had the ess eff effect et of causing clover and other leguminous gu minous 9 plants to spring up and nourish flourish the enact effect was very marked and the result fully sustains the deductions made from direct experiments on clover wheat barley etc we are warranted in concluding that clover and other leguminous gu minous plants require a larger amount of ackal ies les in the soil than wheat and ard the grasses generally while tile the latter requires manures lich rich in ammonia some experiments recently made in scotland by thomas ferguson Fer guon gnon alo abo aio favor this opinion land recently seeded with rye grass and clover was top dressed with various fertilizers those furnishing a free supply of ammonia 0 nitric acid increased the rye grass to such an extent that the clover plant was choked and came up verv very thin in the after atter mali maii oue hundred and twelve pounds of sill sulphate phate of ammonia costing 4 50 gave an increase of 1524 1521 1 pounds of hay per acre pounds bart Part Pd ivian ruvian guano gilano costing 6 an increase of 1260 pounds pounds nitrate of or soda costing 5 an increase of 1540 pounds pounds of of lime costing 5 an increase of pounds while sulp sulphate hate bate and of potash gave an in increase of orni cool only y 30 pounds in another field on a two year old pasture an air application of fiva five dollars worth of guano banco at least doubled the outlay in in grass so also the thie sulphate of ammonia and nitrate of soda all of which thickened the grass plants beside them thear a quick grow growth th 1 l genesee farmer january |