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HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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South Acre Soil Test, 1899* 



* All plots limed at rate of one ton per acre. 



I Both stover and ears were driest upon the plots giving the larger yields, viz., 4, 7, 10, 11 

 and 12, for only on these was growth sufficiently normal to allow natural ripening. 



The Results in 1898. 



[No lime had been used except on the lime plot.] 



For purposes of comparison I here present a statement 

 covering the results of last year (1898), when also the crop, 

 as has been pointed out, was corn. I quote from my last 

 annual report : — 



The siugle-element plots, one receiving nitrate of soda only 

 yearly, another phosphoric acid and the third potash, give this year 

 practically equal crops of grain, respectively at the rate of 20.6, 

 18.5 and 19.8 bushels per acre. The nitrate of soda and dissolved 

 bone-black give a crop at the rate of 32 bushels per acre, while 

 nitrate of soda and potash give at the rate of but 10.9 bushels. 

 The dissolved bone-black and muriate of potash do much better, 

 yielding at the rate of 41.2 bushels. The fertilizer supplying nitro- 

 gen, phosphoric acid and potash gives a crop of 5"). 9 bushels, while 

 manure gives 67.7 bushels. 



