356 Bulletin 264. 



Other results at Cherry Creek. — In the spring of 1908, Mr. Hunt seeded 

 4 acres to canning peas after the soil had been treated with 1,000 pounds 

 of slaked lime per acre, and produced a crop of 2,000 pounds of shelled 

 peas. This is a small yield, but when we take into consideration the 

 fact that the year previous this field, when unlimed, had produced 

 absolutely no crop, the gain must be considered very good. 



In another field, treated with 1,000 pounds of lime per acre, where 

 alsike clover had been sown with a nurse crop of oats, the stand was 

 good and the plants thrifty. 



Newfield Experiments 



In this experiment on the farm of G. M. Pinckney in Tompkins county, 

 the plots were of the same size, and received the same treatment as those 

 just described at Cherry Creek except that they were not inoculated 

 and were seeded with oats. Here, the soil was very different, being of 

 the type mapped as Volusia silt loam, which is considered to be one of 

 the least productive of the New York soils. It is found chiefly on the 

 higher hills of the southern part of the State, and is described (U. S. Soil 

 Survey of Tompkins county) as a light brown or yellow silt loam, with a 

 subsoil of a lemon-yellow, light gray or mottled gray and yellow color. 

 As a rule, it is very rolling. The presence of a large amount of small 

 shale fragments in the soil makes it hard to till. The field where these 

 experiments were located was fairly representative of the soil type. 

 It was in sod, the season was late and dry, all of which were unfavorable. 



The soil was put in a good state of tilth and was seeded the third 

 week in May, 1907, at which time one-half of the plots were limed as 

 described under the Cherry Creek work. 



The first noticeable differences in the appearance of the plots were 

 the larger growth on the limed plots as compared with those unlimed 

 and the larger growth of the individual plants on the plot receiving 

 manure. Late in the fall no appreciable difference could be noted in 

 the varieties, and the fertilizer treatments appeared about equal. Dur- 

 ing the third week in July, 1908, these plots were harvested, the yields 

 weighed and samples taken for determinations of dry weights. 



At this time small areas, each one yard square, were also harvested 

 from what were considered to be representative parts of the plots in order 

 to ascertain what effect the lime and fertilizers had exerted on the ratio 

 of clover to weeds and grass. 



