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HADLEY. 



SOIL TEST WITH FERTILIZER FOR CORN. 



By L. W. West. 



*Cords. 



Average of nothing plots: hard corn, 20.6 bushels; soft corn, 

 4.4 bushels ; stover, 2830 pounds. 



The acre for this experiment is a part of the same large tract of 

 plain land in which our experiment in Hadley was located last year, 

 but it lies a little higher and is much better corn land. It is a heavy 

 loam with clayey subsoil ; and most of it had been several years in 

 grass without manure. A small portion had more recently been 

 ploughed, but it had also been in grass for about two years. The 

 field proved uneven in quality, as shown by the wide variation in the 

 yield of the nothing plots ; but the variation occurs in such part of 

 the field that the comparison of the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and 

 potash is comparatively little affected. The seed, eight-rowed yellow 

 flint corn, was planted May 22d ; the crop was stooked Sept. 25th, 

 and husked Oct. 16th. The stooks on plots 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 were 

 in part blown down by a storm and were not as dry as in other parts 



