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CEREALS .\ND PULSE CROPS 



Table III. — The Effect of Limeon Corn, Groicn on Acid Soils, andihe Vahie 

 of Lime to the Entire Rotation. Average of 12 years. 



Treatment 



(Fertilizers per acre 



for one rotation of 5 years) 



Yield of corn 

 per acre-Bushels 



Value per acre 



of all crop 

 of the rotation 



IJmed 



Unlimed 



Limed 



I. Without nitrogen. ' 



Phosphorus, 20 lbs in aeid phosphate . . 36.13 



Phosphorus, 20 lbs; potassium, 108 lbs, \ 



in muriate of potash I 43-86 



II. Nitrogen, 38 lbs, with phosphorus, 30 

 lbs, and potassium 108 lbs. 



Nitrogen in nitrate of soda 



Nitrogen in sulphate of ammonLi .... 



III. Nitrogen, 76 lbs in nitrate of soda, with 

 phosphorus, 20 lbs, and potassium, 108 lbs. 



Phosphorus in acid phosphate 



Phosphorus in bone meal 



Phosphorus in basic slag 



IV. Yard manure, 16 tons, estimated to j 

 carrj' nitrogen, 144 lbs. | 



Phosphorus, 48 lbs; and potassium 1 1:: lbs. 56.02 



Average of unfertilized plots 25.96 



s. d. 



43.64 282 6 340 10 

 51.68 317 10 384 8 



48.85 56.29 3G5 8 435 4 

 45.80 57.68 333 6 ; 433 II 



62.71 \ 412 10 479 4 



1 

 34.21 ; 205 lol 255 10 



Table IV. — Influence of the Time of Sowing on the Yield, Moisture Content 



and Loss of Weight. 



Date of sowing 



April 

 24-29 



May 

 4-10 



May 

 14-17 



Mav June 



25-2'8 ; 2-6 



Yieldperacre, ^averageof 6years), I I I | 



in bushels 63.86 i 68.49 j 67.07 ■ 54.87 [ 44.32 



Moisture cor. tent, (average of 6 ' 



years) i 23.73 %, 25.08 % 25.93 "o 29.13 



Weight of grain obtained in April 

 from 50 lbs ears a-^ weighed in 

 November, in lbs. (average of 

 5 years). 35.6o 



34-55 



3390 



31-6: 



33-52 % 



30-45 



bushels per acre- There is thus no foundation for the opinion , so wide- 

 spread among growers, that lack of marked roughness is an indication of 

 shortening of the kernels, reduced 3-ield and deterioration in general. 



