Excerpt from The Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, Vol. 27: May, 1920 The higher the grade the less the cost of carriage, otherwise, provided equal weights of phosphate are applied, the lower grades, though not so quick acting, may be counted on to give as good, or nearly as good results in the end as the higher. It is generally believed that it is not well to turn preg nant stock on to newly-slagged land before rain has washed the slag off the herbage, and it is possibly better not to do 50. Generally Speaking, however, there is no fear of stock suffering from grazing newly-slagged land. As soon as the slag begins to take effect it will be found, in cases where pastures have only been slagged in parts, that the stock concentrate on the slagged portions, and consequently these look barer than the unslagged. This result, viewed apart from its cause, some times makes farmers needlessly doubtful as to the good effects of slagging. Where it is impossible to obtain slag, an equivalent dressing of superphosphate and lime (1 ton per acre) should usually give as good results as the highest grade of slag. In rainy districts and on sour soils. Ground mineral phosphate is prae tically as good as slag. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.