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The " complete fertilizer" gives a considerable profit on its use; 

 but in view of the facts that phosphoric acid seems to do very little 

 good in any plot and that nitrogen causes but a comparatively small 

 increase, it appears probable that a fertilizer differently compounded 

 would have proved more profitable. 



For this soil I sJiould recommend fertilizers like tJiose recommended 

 for Marblehead, page 11, whether to be used alone or with manure 

 such as was lised here. 



BRIDGEWATER. 



SOIL TEST VTITH FERTILIZERS FOR CORN. 



By A. D. Copeland. 



Average of the nothings: hard corn, 4.9 bushels ; soft corn, 4.8 

 bushels ; stover, 1072 pounds. 



This experiment was located upon a level piece of land ; the soil, 

 a very poor, gravelly loam which had been in grass many years with- 

 out manure. It was planted rather late, owing to illness, with an 



