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which the preceding experiment was made, Red Rust Proof 

 oats were sown on one plot and an adjoining plot was left to 

 be sown late in the winter. 



February 9, 1898, this second plot was sown, all con- 

 ditions of preparation, amount of seed, and fertilizer, being 

 identical on the two plots. On each plot the fertilizer was' 

 applied at the same time as the seed, in November and 

 February respectively. 



The fertilizer consisted of ; 



160 lbs. acid phosphate per acre. 

 160 lbs. cotton seed meal " 

 40 lbs. muriate of potash " 



Total, 360 lbs. 



The yield was 18.2 bushels per acre on the fall-sown 

 plots, and 6.4 bushels per acre on the plot sown in February. 



The extremely dry weather of the latter part of the 

 spring injured the crop on both plots, but its effects were most 

 severely felt by spring sown oats, which being 19 days later 

 in maturing were cut short by the continuous drought. In 

 ordinary seasons, or on soil better supplied with moisture, 

 there would doubtless have been less difference in yield. 



Another test bearing on this subject was made in 1897-98. 

 This was made on better land than that used in the preceding 

 experiment. 



As before, all conditions on both plots were made equal 

 except that one plot was sown November 26, and the other 

 February 9. 



The yield was 23.8 bushels per acre with the fall sown 

 oats and 14.1 bushels with Red Rust Proof oats sown in 

 February, a gain of 9.7 bushels per acre as the result of sow- 

 ing in the fall. 



The results for all three experiments just mentioned are 

 brought together in the following table : 



