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Amount of Seed used per Acre. 

 Vetch and oats, 80 pounds of oats and 40 pounds of vetch. 

 Scotch tares in drills, ...... 47 i^ounds. 



Soja bean in drills, 50 pounds. 



Yield of Crops in Each Plat, calculated for One Acre. 

 [Pounds.] 



Vetch and oats when cut contained 20 per cent, dry matter. 



Soja bean when cut contained 22 per cent, dry matter. 



Scotch tares when cut and dried contained 80 per cent, dry matter. 



Conchcsions. 



1. The effect of the commercial manures applied in case 

 of plats TV. and V. on the yield of crops compares very 

 favoral)ly with that of barn-yard manure (plat I.). 



2. Wood ashes have given in our case on the whole quite 

 satisfactory results. 



3. The presence in the soil of a liberal amount of 

 organic vegetable matter in all plats, due to the sod turned 

 under (1888-89), has in all probability brought the highest 

 possible manurial effect of wood ashes and commercial fertil- 

 izers (plats II., IV., v.). 



4. The sulphate of potash-magnesia has given us, in case 

 of leguminous plants, in two out of three cases a better 

 yield of crops than the muriate of potash. The crops are in 

 the majority of cases leguminous plants (clover-like plants). 



