212 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



The coarsest part of the barn-yard manure was subsequently 

 removed from both plats before the growing grass interfered 

 with its being raked off. 



Plat III., about 2.41 acres, received, May 3, 1889, a top- 

 dressing of six hundred pounds of fine-ground steamed bone 

 and two hundred pounds of muriate of potash per acre. 



Plat IV. (south of roadway), an area of 2.11 acres, 

 received the same dressing, in the same proportion and at 

 the same rate (six hundred pounds ground bone and two 

 hundred pounds muriate of potash) per acre as Plat III. 

 (1889). 



Plat V., equal to .91 acres, received, as top-dressing, 

 April 23, 1889, one ton of unleached Canada wood ashes, 

 from our local market (1889). 



Yield of Hay in Case of Plats J., II. and III. (Second Year after 

 Seeding), and of Plats IV. and V. (First Year after Seeding). 



