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applied were superphosphate 312 pouucls, muriate of potash 39 pounds, 

 aud nitrate of soda 65 pounds per acre: or cotton-seed meal 143 jwunds, 

 superphosphate 280 pounds, and muriate of potash 37 pounds per acre. 

 These were applied either all before plantin": or in two or three sepa- 

 rate portions, one portion before planting aud the remainder during 

 the growing season. "On the whole the results do not show any 

 decided advantage in intercultural fertilizing." These indications agree 

 Avith those of the previous season. 



Effect of pulling fodder, R. J. Redding (pp. 104-106). — This 

 experiment was similar to one described in bulletin Xo. 10 of the sta- 

 tion (see Experiment Station Record, vol. ii, p. 5.51), and was made to 

 observe the effect on the final yield of corn of stripi)ing the leaves from 

 the stalks on one half of each of 16 plats, the fodder being carefully 

 cured and dried. The results are tabulated. 



The plats from -which the Idades were stripped yielded 23.9 bushels of shelled corn 

 per acre. Those from which the bhides were not taken gave a yield of 27.3 bushels 

 per acre — a loss of 3.4 bushels per acre as the result of pulling the fodder. But the 

 yield of fodder was 270 pounds jieracre, at a cost for pulling and curing of 81 ceuts. 

 In other words, tliere was a loss of 3.4 bushels, equal to 190.4 pounds of corn, and a 

 gain of 270 pounds of fodder. » * * The result iloes not justify any modification 

 of the conclusion drawn last year, which is as follows: The strongest argument 

 against the practice is tlic meager results in foddi-r compared with the amount of 

 labor involved. The sanu' lal»or employed in mowing grass or any good forage crops, 

 even without the use of improved harvesting machinery, would yield vastly greater 

 results. 



Deep vs. shallow culture of corn, R. J. Redding (pp. 10(5, 



107). — This trial was made in conn«M-tion with the experiment in ]mll- 

 ing fodder described above, 8 plats receiving deep and 8 shallow cnlture. 

 The results are tabulated. " The average yield of the shallow-culture 

 plats was 26.1 bushels of shelled corn per acre, while that of the deep- 

 culture plats was 25.1; but the advantage of the shallow culture 

 becomes still more manifest when the cost of the extra labor involved in 

 deep culture is considered." 



Variety test of corn, R. J. Redding (pp. 107-UHt). — Tabulated 

 notes on 17 varieties. 



Crushed cotton seed vs. cotton-seed meal and hulls, R. 

 J. Redding (pp. 109-111). — In this test amounts of crushed cotton seed 

 and cotton-seed meal and hulls furnishing like amounts of fertilizing 

 ingredients, were applied in connection with superphospliate and muriate 

 of ])otash on plats containing three rows 209 feet long. The average yield 

 of corn on 4 ])lats receivitig crushed cotton seed was 29.2 bushels, aud 

 on 4 plats receiving cotton seed meal and hulls 28.9 bushels per acre, 

 indicating no advantage of the crushed seed over the ground and 

 extracted meal. 



Composting in the heap vs. composting in the furrow, R. 

 J. Redding (pp. Ill, 112). — On 4 plats of corn a mixture of 346 pounds 

 each of superphosphate, barnyard manure, and crushed cotton seed, 



