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1899 without any manure or other fer- 

 tilizer being applied. The second plot 

 has grown wheat every year since 1899, 

 but has had a light application of 

 manure plowed under each fall. The 

 third plot has had no manure applied 

 and has grown a crop every year, but 

 a rotation of wheat one year, oats one 

 year, clover two years and corn one 

 year has been carried on since 1899, the 

 1914 crop being wheat. 



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 at this time is that the plot that has 

 grown wheat continually without ma- 

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observer, the plot that has been ma- 

 nured and the plot that has not been 

 nured, but has grown a rotation, show 

 manured, but has grown a rotation, 

 .show an equally good growth of wheat 

 at this lime and show a better growth 

 than thev did fifteen years ago. 



The plots show (1) that the fertility 

 of the soil may be maintained either 

 through the use of barnyard manure or 

 by a rotation of crops that includes 

 clover or some equally good soil-im- 

 proving crop; (2) that it is kept in a 

 high state of fertility. It is not neces- 

 sary to practice summer fallowing with 

 the rainfall received at Pullman, either 

 to give the land a rest or to conserve 

 the moisture of two seasons for the 

 growth of one crop. If the soil is sulli- 

 ciently fertile, one inch of rainfall may 

 carry more food into the plants than 

 two inches of rainfall may dissolve 

 and carry to the plants from a very 

 poor soil. This is beginning to be very 

 apparent in tlie field practice on the 

 college farm. Kxcept in small experi- 

 mental plots, summer fallowing is no 

 longer practiced on the state farm, but 

 a rotation is followed that involves 

 crooping annually with clover, alfalfa 

 and peas grown ])eriodically to improve 

 the soil and corn to serve as a soil- 

 cleaning crop (corn is a soil-cleaning 

 crop only when it is properly culti- 

 vated — corn itself has no effect in 

 cleaning the soil). 



One twelve-acre field lying on a 

 south slo])e was in sunnner fallow in 

 1894. It has grown a crop every year 

 since. Every five years a well culti- 

 vated corn crop has helped to keep the 

 soil in good tilth and free from weeds, 

 while peas and clover, interspersed at 

 about like periods, have served to keep 

 up the supply of nitrogen and hunuis. 

 The lield now produces much better 

 than when it was first taken over b\ 

 the college. In 1911 it yielded foi-ty- 

 seven bushels of wheat per acre. In 

 1912 it yielded forty bushels of peas 

 per acre. In 19i;i it yielded forty-six 

 bushels of wheat jier acre. At iiresent 

 there is an excellent crop of oats grow- 

 ing on this lield that will produce a 

 very satisfactory yield if the season is 

 fairh normal from now till harvest. 



The rich color and rank growth of 

 nearly all crops on the farm are begin- 

 ning to show the elVect of the use of 

 barnvard manure and the growing of 



peas, alfalfa and clover. One of the 

 fields last purchased has not yet re- 

 ceived a treatment of clover or alfalfa, 

 and the yellower, more spinding growth 

 of the barley shows a striking contrast 

 to the ranker growth on the other fields. 

 The importance of maintaining a 

 high state of fertility applies equally 

 well to the semi-arid regions and to the 

 moist regions of Western Washington. 

 While it would be impossible to grow 

 a good crop annually with the very 

 limited rainfall of Central Washington, 

 it is ciuite possible for the low rainfall 

 to be much nioie ellicient with plenty 

 of fertility available to dissolve and 

 carry to the plants. The number of 

 croi) failures can be very materially re- 

 duced and the average yields greatly 

 increased by keeping more live stock, 

 saving and applying the manure care- 

 fully and by growing soil-improving 

 crops to keep up the fertility. Many 

 sections of Western Washington might 

 grow two crops per year or three crops 

 in two years where they are now 

 scarcely able to grow one good crop, if 

 the soil were kept in a higher state of 

 fertility. — Washington State Experi- 

 ment Station Bulletin. 



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