1896.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 137 



Pounds. 



Phosphoric acid, 7£ 



Potassium oxide, 15 



Nitrogen, 6^ 



The crops were planted across each plat, from north to 

 south, in rows 02 feet in length ; a corresponding number 

 of rows of each crop was planted in each plat, and they 

 were arranged in each case in the same order of succession, 

 beginning on the west end : — 



Onions (Danvers Yellow) , eight rows. 

 Sweet corn (Crosby Early), four rows. 

 Beans (Bush Horticultural), nine rows. 

 Tomatoes (Essex Hybrid), two rows. 



Onions. 



The onions were sown in rows 14 inches apart May 1 ; 

 they came up May 12. The young plants looked least satis- 

 factory upon plats 1 and 4, and most promising upon plats 

 2 and 5, July 11. The crop was harvested on all plats 

 October 5. Plats 2 and 5 yielded more than one-half of the 

 entire marketable crop, while plats 1 and 5 yielded but one- 

 fifteenth of it. 



Yield of Onions (Pounds). 



Sveet Corn. 



The corn was planted in rows 3 feet 3 inches apart, with 

 20 inches in the row, averaging 131 hills in each plat, May 

 11. The young plants came up May 27 quite uniformly on 

 all plats. 



