1899.] 



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ate, while the spring-sown has flourished upon the same 

 plots without reploughing or any change in treatment. 



Muriate v. Sulphate op Potash foe Corn, (Field B.) 



Two plots in Field B, one muriate and one sulphate, were 

 planted to Sibley's Pride of the North corn, with a view to 

 testing the relative value of these two potash salts for this 

 crop. If will he remembered that these plots have been 

 under the same nmnurial treatment since INN I. The fer- 

 tilizers were broadcasted after ploughing, and harrowed in, 

 and the corn was planted on May -HO, in drills 3| feet apart. 

 It was later thinned to 1 foot in the drills. The crop was 

 cut September !> and husked the middle of October. 



Corn on Muriate and on Sulphate of Potash. 



The apparent superiority of the crop raised on the muriate 

 of potash is considerable. During the growth of the crop, 

 as the result of frequent examinations, no such difference 

 was evident ; and it is regretted that the moisture test has 

 not been completed in season for this report, as it is felt 

 that there may have been a difference in condition of the two 

 crops when weighed, owing to the very rainy weather of the 

 autumn. 



Sweet Clover (Melilotus alba) . 



As has been stated under "Muriate v. Sulphate of Potash 

 for Clovers," sweet clover occupied two of the plots in 

 Field B. The present is the third successive year that this 

 clover has been grown upon these plots, and the soil appears 

 now to have become thoroughly stocked with the nodular 

 bacteria peculiar to the plant. As reported in 1896, but 

 few of the plants on these plots in that year possessed 



