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HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



The crop this year has been oats, of the Early Race-horse 

 variety. The soil was well prepared, the crop sown May 6. 

 The growth was, so far as could be seen, unaffected by acci- 

 dental conditions. There were, however, more weeds on 

 plots 3 and 4 than elsewhere ; and, as it was impossible to 

 separate these completely in handling the crop, some of 

 them were weighed with the straw. The figures represent- 

 ing weights of straw for these plots, especially for plot 3, 

 on which weeds were most abundant, are therefore without 

 doubt to some extent misleading. The several plots pro- 

 duced yields at the following rates per acre : — 



Representing the yield of grain on plot 1 by the number 

 100, the relative standing of the other plots is shown by 



the following table : — 



Plots. 



Fertilizer. 



Per Cent. 



Plot 0, 

 Plot 1, 

 Plot 2, 

 Plot 3, 

 Plot 4, 

 Plot 5, 



No phosphate, . 

 Phosphatic slag, 

 Mona guano, 

 Ground Florida rock, 

 Ground South Carolina rock, 

 Dissolved bone-black, 



86.8 

 100.0 

 83.8 

 66.6 

 95.0 

 79.2 



