14 The Bulletin. 



The plats embraced in Field C were part of an old field covered 

 with hroomsedge, small briars, and small pines in 1903. The pines 

 were grubbed out and the other growth turned under with a two- 

 horse plow in the spring of 1903 and cultivated in corn that year, 

 with a fertilizer application of 300 pounds per acre of the com- 

 position referred to above for corn. In the fall of 1903 crimson 

 clover was sown, but no stand was obtained. The land was prepared 

 in the spring of 1904 and laid off in plats of one-twentieth acre 

 each, the size being 108.9 feet by 20 feet, with space between the 

 plats for two rows of peas, the row nearest the plats being fertilized 

 in each case like the plats they adjoined. There is a four-foot space 

 at the end of the plats, which was not counted, and a turn-row 

 between the series, there being two series with sixteen plats in each 

 series. In the case of all the plats on this farm there is a four-foot 

 extra space at the ends of plats. 



The results were obtained by dividing the plats in half, cutting 

 one-half for hay to obtain the yield of hay, and picking the peas 

 on the other half for yield of peas. The pea yields in all cases are 

 expressed as bushels — dried shelled peas. 



PREPARATION AND CULTIVATION. 



The land in all cases was well prepared by breaking with a two- 

 horse turning plow to a depth of eight to ten inches, cut up thor- 

 oughly with disk harrow, double disking when necessary, and then 

 harrowing with iron spike-tooth smoothing harrow. In both 

 fertilizer and variety tests the rows were run off SVs feet apart, and 

 in the case of fertilizer tests the fertilizer materials were weighed 

 out separately for each row, distributed in the drill and mixed with 

 the soil. The peas were drilled at the rate of as nearly 30 pounds 

 per acre as possible, using the pea plate and Hoosier Planter. The 

 ISTew Era variety of peas was used in all the fertilizer tests. The 

 peas were cultivated two to four times each season, depending on 

 the time of planting and the need of cultivation. When planted 

 early more cultivation was required than for late planting, to keep 

 down weeds and grass. The cultivations were with Planet Junior 

 or riding cultivators, going usually once to the row. 



The time of planting and number of cultivations for each season 

 in the fertilizer experiments were as follows : 



1904. — Land was broken in the fall and again in the spring and 

 planted on June 3d. Peas were cultivated four times; June I8th, 

 25th, July 8th, 22d. 



1905. — Land was broken July 2d, planted on the 7th, and culti- 

 vated only once, which was on July 24th. Wet weather prevented 

 further cultivation. 



