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successes and failures met in his experience. The direct experiments 

 suggested were: 



Seeding with and without a nurse crop; 



Treating a portion of the area with Hme; 



Inoculation with cultures and soil; 



Stable manure with and without inoculation. 



Interest has seemed to center around the matter of inoculation. 

 Packages containing inoculated and uninoculated seeds were sent to 

 200 farmers, and sacks of soil from our alfalfa field to 32 farmers. 

 Many of the farmers introduced one or more of the other experiments 

 into their plats — test of the effect of an application of lime being most 

 frequent. 



Oats. — A test of three varieties from selected seed. The varieties 

 used were Board of Trade, secured in northeastern Pennsylvania; a 

 strain of Whi*te Tartar, secured from the Winters farm in Tioga 

 county, N. Y., and Kherson, a Russian variety imported and tested 

 by the Nebraska Station , where it has proved very superior and from 

 whom our seed was secured. Packages of the three varieties were 

 sent to 12 farmers. 



Fertilizers. — A test of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, 

 singly and in combination, eight plats 1-20 to 1-10 acre each. Eight 

 farmers applied for this experiment. 



Potatoes. — -A variety test. Five pounds each of Commercial, 

 lona Seedling and Whitton's White Mammoth were sent to each 

 of 54 farmers for this test. 



Sunflower. — In corn for silage. Some farmers have reported very 

 favorably in the past. Only four applied for seed this season. 



Soy Beans. — Seeds of several varieties were furnished to 19 farmers, 

 who were requested to report, so far as circumstances would permit, 

 on 



Their grain-producing qualities. 



Their forage-producing qualities. 



Their green-manurial qualities. 



Their adaptation to growing in corn to improve the quality of 

 silage, and 



Tiie effect of inoculating the seed with cultures. Part of the seed 

 was inoculated for the last -mentioned test. 



Field Beans. — A test of varieties. Sufficient seed for a test of 

 Red Kidney, Yellow Eyes, White Marrows, Blue-pod Medium, Marrow 

 pea and Excelsior pea beans was sent, upon request, to 20 farmers, 

 who are to report upon their relative yield and adaptation to the 

 localities where grown. 



