Salt On Wheat

In the eourso of the discussion on salt as a man ure, beforo the Iloyul Agrioultural Society, of England, oue of the speakers, Mr. Hooker, said that he agreed with Professor Voelcker that a small quantity of salt was letter than a large quautity ou stiff laud. In an experiment of bis last year, 1 1-2 cwt. of salt was sown broadoast per acre on the 12th of May, 1863. A poition ot the land was not sown with salt. " The following was tbe result. The land salted gave a produoe of 2,475 fts. of wheat per acre; and the bind uot salted gave a produce of 2,337 tbs. per acre, showing an exeess of 138 fbs. per acre on the salted land. Further, the land salted gavo a produce of 3,389 ïbs of straw ir acre, and the land not salted a produce of 3,150 fbs. per acre, showing 239 pouiids p.r acre extra ou tbe salted land 'ibis showed a large exeess of straw in propurtiou to tbe wheat, and that wns accouuted for by tbe finerquality of the straw. The straw grown on tbe salted hnd contaiued more mineral than the other stravr, and oonBequently bad a greater weight." His soil was " rather a stiff clay." 8fe f ïünpn JUgm