These results show an annual difference of about one and three- 

 quarters tons of green crop, or of one-half ton of Alfalfa hay per acre in 

 favour of the land which had received the farmyard manure, at the rate 

 of about twelve loads per acre before the Alfalfa seed was sown. 



In another experiment, farmyard manure at the rate of twenty tons 

 and hen manure at the rate of five tons per acre were applied as top 

 dressings on Alfalfa plots which had already produced seven cuttings of 

 Alfalfa. The manures were applied after the first cutting of Alfalfa had 

 been taken from the land in 1902. After the application of the manures 

 was made, two crops in 1902 and three crops in each of the years 1903 and 

 1904 were harvested, and the results recorded. The yields -of green 

 Alfalfa in tons per acre as follows : 



The first crop in 1902, before the manures were applied, produced 

 green Alfalfa on the plots of the duplicate test at the following rates per 

 acre: No. 1, 12. 1 tons; No. 2, 12 tons, and No. 3, 12.7 tons. The influ- 

 ence of the hen manure was quite marked at first, but that of the farm- 

 yard manure was more lasting. 



Two experiments with commercial fertilizers on Alfalfa have been 

 conducted at the College. One of these, consisting of twenty plots, was 

 started in 1899, when the fertilizers were used in the same spring in 

 which the Alfalfa seed was sown, and the other, consisting of twelve 

 plots, was started in 1902, when the fertilizers were used on Alfalfa sod 

 which was well established. The first experiment consisted of four tests 

 with five plots in each, and the second experiment of two tests with six 

 plots in each test. The fertilizers used in each test consisted of muriate 

 of potash and nitrate of soda, each sown at the rate of 160 pounds; of 

 superphosphate, at the rate of 320 pounds ; and of complete fertilizer, at 

 the rate of 213 pounds per acre. In each test in the second experiment 

 Thomas' phosphate powder was also used at the rate of 320 pounds per 

 acre. One plot was left unfertilized in each of the tests of both experi- 

 ments. After the fertilizers were applied, the first experiment was con- 



