1896.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — Xo. 33. 11 



REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURIST. 



WILLIAM P. BROOKS. 



Leading Results and Conclusions based upon the 

 Experiments outlined in the Report of the Agri- 

 culturist. 



Grass and Clover. 



1. Nitrate of soda applied in early spring may safely be 

 depended upon to produce a profitable increase in the first 

 crop of hay, but such application will not materially increase 

 the yield of rowen. The amount to be used is from 150 to 

 200 pounds per acre. 



2. Muriate of potash applied to land which is to be seeded 

 to mixed grasses and clovers may be depended upon to in- 

 crease the proportion of clover in the produce, and con- 

 sequently to make the hay more highly nitrogenous, and 

 particularly to increase the yield of rowen. The amount 

 needed is about 175 to 200 pounds per acre. 



3. Fertilizers for top-dressing grass lands in spring should 

 contain nitrate of soda and muriate or sulphate of potash ; and, 

 to benefit the rowen crop, they should contain also some 

 slower-acting forms of nitrogen, such as sulphate of ammo- 

 nia, dried blood, dry ground fish, bone meal or tankage. 

 The fish, tankage or bone meal will furnish some phosphate, 

 of which a moderate quantity will be useful. 



Corn. 



1. The application of muriate of potash has so invariably 

 increased the yield of both stover and grain that the conclu- 

 sion is irresistible that potash should be more abundant in 

 fertilizers for this crop than is usually the case. 



