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YARMOUTH. 



SOIL TEST WITH FERTILIZERS FOR CORN. 



By James Brydon. 



Average of uotliiug plots: hard corn, 21.8 bushels; stover, 2118 

 pounds. There was no soft corn on any of the plots in this experiment. 



The field selected for this experiment on the farm of John Siinp- 

 kins, President of the Barnstable Agricultural Society, is a part of a 

 nearly level tract quite near the sea, another portion of which was 

 used last year. The soil is a fine sand}' loam, and varied consider- 

 ably in fertility, steadily improving from one side to the other, as 

 shown by the progressive increase in the yield of the nothing plots 

 from 17 bushels at one extreme to 25 at the other. So far as known 

 this field had never received much manure ; it was cultivated last 

 eight years ago and subsequently had been used as a pasture. The 

 variety of corn selected was an eight- rowed, yellow flint. It was 

 planted May 23d; stooked, Sept. 29th; and husked, Now. 4th. It 

 was planted in hills 3| feec apart, and three stalks were left to a hill. 

 The crows pulled some so that there were a number of missing hills. 



