CIRCULAR CONCERNING 



Co "Operative Tillage Experiments. 



No. 5. 



Cornell University, 



College of Agriculture. 



Ithaca, N. K, April 15, 1897. 



It is desired by the Cornell University College of Agriculture 

 to co-operate with farmers throughout the State in tillage experi- 

 ments with potatoes and sugar beets. Such marked results have 

 been obtained by the Experiment Station at Cornell University 

 in the tillage of potatoes that it is considered worth while to see 

 if equally marked results cannot be secured by the farmers gen- 

 erally throughout the State. The awakening interest in the home 

 manufacture of sugar and the organization in this State of one 

 or more companies for its manufacture from beets, demand that 

 attention be given to the subject of the culture of sugar beets, 

 and the fertilizers, soil and varieties best suited to their produc- 

 tion in different sections of the State. 



To assist in carrying out this work we invite the co-operation 

 of all farmers interested, and for those who desire to enter upon 

 this work the following details are given : 



Potato Tillage Experiments. 



Select, if possible, a loamy soil avoiding light sands or heavy 

 clay. If a clover sod can be plowed under it will serve the pur- 

 pose well, but heavy, tenacious sods should be avoided. Select 

 a place on which the soil is uniform in quality and all portions 

 of which have been treated alike as regards cropping and ma- 



