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7. Put the fertilizers on the plats numbered to correspond to the num- 

 bers on the bags. Put bag No. 2 on plat No. 2, etc., etc. 



8. Apply the fertilizers in the method which you have practiced. 



9. Make the same number of rows on each plat, with the same number 

 of hills in each row if possible. 



10. Put the same amount of the same kind of seed on each plat. 



11. Plant the seed (or sow) on the same day on all the plats, if possible. 



12. Cultivate the plats while the crop is growing, as nearly at the same 

 time as possible. 



13. Spray the crop as needed to prevent insect and fungous pests. 



14. Weigh the crop carefully on each plat — both grain and straw if 

 grain is sown, both corn and fodder if corn is planted (that is, find weight 

 of grain and straw separately) or both large and small potatoes. 



15. Carefully report any misfortune to the crop on any plat, and keep a 

 record of the appearance of each plat. 



Conditions Affecting the Experiments. 



These experiments were subject to certain unfortunate con- 

 ditions which rendered the results on at least two farms of lesa 

 value than otherwise would have been the case. In the first 

 place the seed proved to be somewhat inferior and as a result the 

 plants were tardy in establishing vigorous growth, being some- 

 what sickly in appearance at first. Later the dry weather, early 

 blight and the rot also entered as disturbing factors. These 

 several conditions, one or all combined, greatly diminished the 

 accuracy of the data from the experiments on Mr. Bobbins' and 

 Mr. Jagger's farms, so that conclusions derived from Mr. Fleet's 

 and Mr. Hallock's experiments are more reliable than the average 

 results from the four farms. The following data are important: 



Crop preceding the experimental crop. — Experiment of W. A. 

 Fleet, corn stubble; H. L. Hallock, timothy sod; W. L. Jagger, 

 timothy sod; R. H. Bobbins, corn stubble. 



Care of crop. — W. A. Fleet sprayed six times, H. L. Hallock 

 five times, R. H. Robbins twice, and W. L. Jagger once. All the 

 fields were well cultivated and kept free from weeds. 



Growth of vines. — Vines weak at first, some hills missing. On 

 July 3 vines green and healthy, excepting on farm of Mr. Robbins 

 where they seemed to have about finished growing and were 

 inclined to ripen. 



August 7, vine growth improved, excepting on Robbins' field 

 where the vines were about dead. 



