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In all, 460 applications were received and 230 applicants were 

 supplied with the fertilizers for the experimental work. The set of 

 fertilizers sent to each farmer consisted of : 



4 sacks nitrate of soda containing 10 pounds each. 

 2 " muriate of potash " 10 '' "' 



2 " superphosphate " 20 " " 



2 " each containing a mixtvire of 20 lbs. super- 

 phosphate and 10 lbs. muriate of potash. 



Thus, each experimenter received 40 pounds nitrate of soda, 40 

 pounds muriate of potash and 80 pounds superphosphate. In all, 

 2,030 sacks were sent out in sets of 10 each, containing 8,120 pounds 

 nitrate of soda, 8,120 pounds muriate of potash and 16,240 pounds 

 superphosphate, making a total of 32,480 pounds. 



Experiments were carried on in the following counties: Albany i, 

 Allegany 3, Broome 4, Cattaraugus 5, Cayuga 4, Chautauqua 18, 

 Chenango 11, Cortland i, Delaware i, Dutchess 2, Erie 2, Herkimer 

 2, Genesee 2, Jefferson 12, Lewis i, Livingston 6, Madison 7, Monroe 

 5, Montgomery 5, Niagara 2, Oneida 11, Onondaga 13, Ontario 6, 

 Orange 2, Orleans 2, Oswego 3, Otsego 2, Queens i, Rensselaer i, 

 Saratoga 3, Schenectady 2, Schoharie i, Schuyler 6, Seneca 4, St. 

 Lawrence 3, Steuben 11, Sullivan, i, Tioga 7, Tompkins 8, Ulster i, 

 Washington i, Wayne 13, Westchester 2, Wyoming i, Yates 4, making 

 a total of 45 counties with 203 experiments. 



A Station representative spent most of the summer visiting the 

 experimenters throughout the state, taking notes and some photographs 

 of experimental plats; giving suggestions and explaining the work; 

 finding out where mistakes and blunders had been made, and ascer- 

 taining just how the farmers received and took hold of this kind of 

 work. 



There were a few total failures ; about half were doing the work 

 fairly well and some 25 to 30 per cent, were doing exceedingly well 

 and had everything right. In all cases, the farmers were very much 

 interested in the work, and said that this way of experimenting with 

 fertilizers, to learn what their land needed, was what they had been 

 wanting to find out. In some cases, where mistakes in applying the 

 fertilizer had been made so that the experiment was a failure, the 

 experimenter would say that if it were not too late he would purchase 



