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BOARD OF AGIIICCLTUUE. 



A. L. MooKE, Limerick. 



Crop, potatoes. The soil was a gravelly loam, in grass ten years, 

 until 188"), when a crop of oats was grown on it after an application 

 of 400 pounds ot superphosphate per acre. 



Plot. 



1 

 2 



Fertilizer Applied. 



5 

 6 

 7 



No fertilizer 



Dissolved bone black. 



C Dissolved bone black, 

 I Muriate of 



potash 



Dissolved bone black. 

 Muriate of potash . . . 

 sulphate of ammonia. 



Fine ground bone.. ... 



No fertilizer 



Dissolved bone black 



< Dissol 

 ( Muria 



Dissolved bone black 

 iriate of potash . . 



Dissolved bone black. 

 Muriate of potash... . 

 Sulphate of amaionia. 



Amount of 



Fertilizer Per 



Acre. 



10 .Fine ground bone. 



lbs. 



400 



400 

 lOU 



400 

 100 

 100 



400 



400 



400 

 100 



400 

 100 

 100 



400 



Weight J 

 of Crop Per ' 

 Acre, tubers.! 



lbs. 

 7,400 



8,100 

 11,400 



12,900 



9,600 

 5,200 

 8,900 



11,340 



11,900 

 8,120 



Yield 



Per Acre, 



tubers. 



bush. 

 123.3 



135. 

 190. 



215. 



160. 

 86.6 

 148.3 



189. 



198.3 

 135.3 



Average. 



