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as well as on the sliorter stalks were well formed and were square 

 having four rows of seed and at intervals seeds sticking between 

 these rows. The straw in the part of the lield where a second crop 

 of corn was raised was on an average of three inches shorter than the 

 straw on the oat part of the held, neither were the heads quite as 

 large. The question naturally arises why this difference? In ex- 

 planation, I will say that a wagon way was cut through the corn to 

 haul the manure on the oat stubble. When the oat ground was 

 plowed this wagon path was also plowed and when the soil was 

 cultivated this road was also cultivated, but was not sown until the 

 wheat was sown in the corn ground. During the entire season of 

 growth the wheat on this wagon way performed exactly as did the 

 wheat on the oat section. It seems here is the explanation of the dif- 

 ference in cultivation the thing which through all these observa- 

 tions has been showing its effects This wheat was harvested July 

 19, and thoroughly cured and when threshed, that part of the field 

 on which the ensilage corn was raised yielded 24 bushels to the acre, 

 and the part on which the oats was raised and which had been plowed 

 early and cultivated frequently before seeding yielded 39| bushels 

 of clean wheat to the acre weighing Gl pounds to the bushel 



The kernels of the wheat as they were used for seed were practi- 

 cally all of the same size and shape, bright and clear in color. Ten 

 average grains of this wheat laid end to end measured 2f inches. 

 The vitality was in no way affected. 



HOWARD W. ANDERSON. 



The soil belongs to the same formation as H. M. Anderson, and 

 therefore, needs no further description. The soil treatment is, how- 

 ever, a little different. The field on which these observations were 

 made contains forty acres. The previous crops raised on this field 

 were a little diverse, no definite rotation was followed. On a part 

 of the field a crop of barley was raised followed with wheat, then 

 a second crop of wheat which is the crop under observation. 

 Auother part of the field was in corn in 1905, followed with a crop 

 of oats in 1906, and then with the wheat under observation. A third 

 part of the field was in corn followed with potatoes then by the 

 crop of wheat under observation. Another part of the field was in 

 strawberries, these were plowed down in the summer of 1906, fol- 

 lowed with the wheat under observation. The corn received an 

 application of stable manure on the surface before the corn was 

 planted. The potatoes received an application of manure and so did 

 the strawberries. The part of the field sown with barley was limed 

 at the time the barley was raised. The strawberry field received 

 an application of wood ashes. This entire field was plowed six to 

 seven weeks before seeding and each days plowing was rolled that 

 same day. The field was harrowed six times between plowing and 

 seeding and rolled twice with a holloek weeder attached to the roller, 

 most of the time. The wheat, the four rowed Fultz, was sown Sept- 

 ember 21 to 24, at the rate of 2 bushels to the acre with 500 pounds 

 per acre of a fertilizer containing 1| to 2-J per cent, nitrogen, 8 to 10 

 per cent, phosphoric acid and 5 to 7 per cent, potash. The seed came 

 up regularly. This seeding was examined November 15, 1906. At 

 this time the wheat was 8^ inches tall and stood well but little or no 

 stooling had taken place. The field was again inspected April 15. At 



