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 WORCESTER. 



SOIL-TEST WITH FERTILIZERS FOR OATS, 



by Pliny Moore. 



Average of the nothing plots : straw, 1728 pounds ; grain, 18.9 bushels per acre. 



The acre used in this experiment is one which has been used in a 

 similar soil test with fertilizers for corn for the two years preceding 

 the last. It is an elevated tract of land, and the soil which is of 

 glacial origin, is a medium gravelly loam. When first taken up for 

 experiment, the soil in different parts of the field differed consider- 

 ably in fertility. This difference has now nearly disappeared, and if 

 we except plot number 1, the yield of grain on which is large as 

 compared with the straw, the nothing plots are nearly alike. 



The variety of oats sown was the common white, and two and one- 

 half bushels per acre were put in broadcast on May 12th. Mixed 

 grass and clover S'?eds were sown at the same time. The crop was 

 cut early in August and threshed August 14th. 



