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EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



The materials applied annually to the several plots are as 



follows : — 



Fertilizers used. 



Plots 2 and 4 2 

 (Pounds Each). 



Nitrate of soda, 

 Dried blood, 

 Dry ground iish, 

 Acid phosphate, 

 Muriate of potash 



50.0 

 50.01 

 62.5 



This field was limed in 1900 at the rate of 1 ton to the acre, 

 and again this year at the same rate. 



For the past two years the land has been in mixed grass and 

 clover. The sod was plowed in May, and the corn, Rustler 

 White dent, was planted on May 25. The rates of yield on 

 the several plots and the averages for the two systems of ma- 

 nuring 1 are shown in the following; tables : — 



i By mistake plots 2 and 4 received the same application of acid phosphate in 1906 as 

 plots l and 3. 

 - Plot 4 this year received in addition 100 pounds of basic slaj; meal. 



