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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Average. 



Experiment of J. E. Shaw, Hampden. Soil, gravel loam. 

 Had been cropped eight years. Cut about 500 lbs. of hay in 1886. 

 Crop, corn. 



o 



HI 



10 



Fertilizers Applied. 



No fertilizer 



Dissolved bone black. 



Dissolved bone black 

 Muriate of potash. . . . 



Dissolved bone black .. 



Muriate of potash 



Sulphate of ammonia.. 



Fine ground bone . . . . 



No fertiliser 



Dissolved bone black. 



Dissolved bone black 

 Muriite of potash. . . . 



C Dissolved bone black . 

 < Muriate of potash. . 

 ( Sulphate of ammonia . 



Fine ground bone 



5.2 



lbs. 



400 



400 

 lUU 



400 

 100 ' 

 100 ' 



400 



400 



400 

 100 



400 

 100' 

 100 I 



400 



Yield per plot. 



lbs 



-a 



o 



87 



68. 



108 



126 

 80 



15 



77 



100 



lbs. 

 125 



104 



17-^ 



200 



136 

 75 

 95 



175 

 225 



106 215 



o 



lbs 



206 



17 

 2>'0 



326 



216 



75 



110 



252 



325 

 321 



Yield per acre. 



o 

 •a 



o 



bush, lbs 

 21.6 2500 



17 3 2080 



28.3 



3440 



33.6 4000 



21.3 2720 



1500 



i 

 4.0 1900 



44.6 



26.5 



28,3 



3500 



4500 



4300 



o 

 H 



lbs. 

 4120 



3440 

 5600 



6520 



4320 

 1600 

 2200 



6040 



6500 

 6420 



