MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION T9II 269 



largely in the town of Monmouth. It .is on the Farniington 

 Branch of the Maine Central Railroad two miles from Leeds 

 Junction. A jflag station called Highmoor is on the farm. 



The farm consists of 225 acres, about 200 of which arc in 

 orchards, fields and pastures. There are in the neighborhood 

 of 3000 apple trees upon the place which have been set from 

 15 to 25 years. The fields that are not in orchards are well 

 adapted to experiments with corn, potatoes, and similar general 

 farm crops. The house is two story with a large wing, and 

 contains about 15 rooms, well arranged for the Experiment 

 Station oflfices and for the home of the farm superintendent'. 

 The barn is large, affording storage for hay and grain. The 

 basements of the building afford a moderate amount of storage 

 for apples, potatoes and roots. 



Although the farm is used as a laboratory bv the different 

 departments of the Station and some of the work in progress 

 upon the farm is described in other parts of this report it may 

 be of interest to briefly note the more important investigations 

 that were carried on upon the farm during the growing season 

 for 1911. 



FIELD EXPERIMENTS, 191 1. 

 Rotation Experiment. 



The object of this experiment is to ascertain the differences in yields 

 and in the exhaustive effects of corn and potatoes in relation to land 

 treated with chemical fertilizers and with organic manure. The whole 

 field was planted to potatoes on chemical fertilizer in 1910. It is to be 

 seeded to grass with oats in 191 2. 



Plot 3 A. One acre Green Mountain potatoes (planted 3 1-2 inches 

 deep), with 1700 pounds of 4-8-7 chemical fertilizer. 



Plot 3 B. One acre sweet corn (planted 18 inches in the row), with 

 1700 pounds 4-8-7 chemical fertilizer. 



Plot 3 C. One acre sweet corn (planted iS inches in the row), with 

 600 pounds 4-8-7 chemical fertilizer plus 8 cords manure. 



Plot 3 D. One acre Green Mountain potatoes (planted 3 1-2 inches 

 deep), with 600 pounds of 4-8-7 chemical fertilizer plus 8 cords manure. 



Because of failure to obtain an even stand of sweet corn this experi- 

 ment will be recommended in 1912. 



Cyaxamide Fertilizer Experiment. 



The object of this experiment is to test the efficiency of a chemically 

 prepared nitrogen supplying fertilizer, known as cyanamide, with the 

 other forms of nitrogen fertilizers now in common use. 



