FARM EXPERIMENTS AT LAKESIDE. Ill 



of the remaining six received no coating of *sand, 

 but after digging out the hassocks and burning 

 them, the patch was turned over with a spade, fer- 

 tilized with three hundred pounds of bone dust and 

 two hundred of guano, and seeded down like the 

 other. This was accomplished in the autumn of 

 1868. In 1869 the first crop and aftermath gave 

 three tons to the acre. In 1870 the two crops 

 exceeded that amount. Another acre, bordering 

 directly upon the lake, but slightly more elevated, 

 was reclaimed in the same manner in 1867, and 

 treated with one ton of dry fish pomace. It gave 

 a crop the succeeding year of one and a half tons 

 to the acre, and since then the yield has been about 

 two tons each season. In 1869, two more acres 

 were put in condition, fertilizing one half with pure 

 bone and spent ashes, the other with farm super- 

 phosphate. The crop in 1870 upon both sections 

 was nearly alike, slightly exceeding one and a half 

 tons to the acre. Some of these experiments have 

 been continued long enough to learn something of 

 the value of the methods of treatment, while the 

 others have not. Several plats of the meadow 

 have been put in condition, and left one season 

 without any fertilizing agents, and the result has 

 been that ferns and coarse meadow plants have 

 flourished together in rank luxuriance, thus prov- 

 ing the needed presence and high utility of the 

 plant stimulants employed. 



