RECENT FARM EXPERIMENTS. 453 
Mr. Samuel Bailey, of Maxey, Georgia, reports an experiment with fer- 
tilizers on wheat, on one acre of thin, exhausted land, which, in 1869, 
with the aid of manure, had produced 17 bushels of corn. Late in 
October, 1869, he broke up the land with a two-horse Brinley plow, and 
spread broadcast six two-horse loads of well-rotted stable manure, which 
he turned under by cross-plowing with the same plow. He then sowed 
broadeast 250 pounds of dissolved bone, harrowed, and seeded with 120 
pounds of wheat, covering with aheavy brush. Larly in February, the 
wheat being about six inches high, he top-dressed with 250 pounds of 
ammoniated phosphate. In the latter part of March, when the wheat 
was in the boot, he applied 125 pounds of ammoniated dissolved bone 
and 25 pounds of salt, ground together, the application being made on 
the dew in the morning, and repeated, in the same amount and manner, 
one week afterward. The product of the acre was 3,415 pounds of 
good wheat, or nearly 57 bushels. No estimate was made of the cost 
of the stable manure, but the cost of the artificial fertilizers employed 
amounted to $27 55. 
Improvement by green manuring, &e.—Myr. F. Stephenson, of Gaines- 
ville, Georgia, reports the example of a farmer who, in i865, set apart 
10 acres of an old sedge field, turned it under in June, and sowed wheat 
in September, harvesting the next year 4 bushels per acre. When 
the land got a good growth of weeds, he again turned under, one inch 
deeper than before, and in September sowed wheat, making a crop oi © 
9 bushels per acre. The next year he turned the green growth still 
deeper, and made 17 bushels per acre; and the following year, 1869, his 
crop was 27 bushels per acre. 
Superphosphate on wheat.—A farmer in Peacham, Vermont, re 
ports that in October, 1866, he plowed to the depth of ten inches a pas- 
ture containing about 22 acres, the soil being a brown loam of uniform 
quality. The next year he planted potatoes, the field being dressed with 
200 pounds of plaster; and in the ensuing spring he divided the land 
into three equal plots of 146 reds each. Plot 1 was sown with club 
wheat prepared by wetting with brine, and drying with Bradley’s su- 
perphosphate. After harrowing once,a dressing of this fertilizer was 
applied, the rate per acre (including amount used with the seed) being 
1,939 pounds, and the ground was then thoroughly harrowed and rolled. 
The other plots were treated in the same manner, except that plot 2 was 
fertilized with Paddock and Dean’s raw bone, and plot 3 with Brad- 
ley’s raw bone. The following table shows amounts of fertilizers ap- 
plied and products obtained, calculated per acre: 
| 
\Amount ‘ 
. lhe Weight 
: f ma- | Product = 
Plot. Manures applied. a per 
nure per)per acre. 
abn bushel, 
Pounds. | Bushels.| Pounds. 
i bradley s'superphosphate...2 22-2) 20. scene ene -s L930 | alee 61 
ZPeacdoeke: Deansraw bones: .us.0/2 5-22 Pees) 1579 26.3 60 
ab Mealaw nH Baw bone. 2.145.522.2214... 24 Bae she ees. 1,940 32.3 60 
The excess of product on Nos. 1 and 3 over that on No. 2 paid for 
the excess of fertilizer used on those two plots. An analysis of the re- 
sulis from these expensive applications of manure shows that, whatever 
benefit might inure to asubsequent crop, the immediate returns were un- 
