CORNELL 



IReabingsCourse for jfarmers 



Published Monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture 

 AT Cornell University, from November to March, and Entered at 

 Ithaca as Second-class Matter under Act of Congress July,i6, 1894. 

 L. H. Bailey, Director. 



SERIES VIII. 

 MISCELLANEOUS. 



ITHACA, N. Y., 

 JANUARY, 1908. 



No. 38. 

 EXPERIMENTS. 



FARMERS' COOPERATIVE EXPERIMENTS 



The following schedule gives a list of the demonstrations or experi- 

 ments that are to be tried by New York State farmers in the season of 

 1908. These experiments cover some of the most important of the newer 

 problems that are just now pressing themselves on the attention of our 



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No treatment 



3520 lbs. hay per acre 



716 

 160 lbs. nitrate soda 

 320 lbs. acid phosphate 

 5820 lbs. hay per acre 



715 

 160 lbs. nitrate soda 

 5590 lbs. hay per acre 



Fi^- ZIT- — titrate of soda alone gives nearly as good yield as nitrate of soda and 



acid phosphate combined. 



farmers. The list contains enough subjects to offer to every farmer one 

 or two for his particular study. We desire to correspond with any per- 

 son in the State who may wish to take up any one or more of these sub- 

 jects on his own place. 



We will be glad to also hear from any farmer who desires to conduct 

 experiments not here listed and to give such aid as may be possible. 



There are two purposes of co-operative experiments: (i) to teach; 

 (2) to discover new truth. 



I. The gradually changing soil conditions as our lands become older, 

 the rapidly changing prices of labor and farm produce and the constant 

 discoveries of new scientific facts make it necessary that the farmer 



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