410 BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. 



At the beginning of blooming it turned gradually yellow, 

 failed to produce grain-bearing cobs, and sufl'ered, toward 

 the end of the month of August, seriously, from smut. 



The corn was cut on the tirst of September and stacked 

 in the field for drying. The entire yield of corn fodder 

 from this piece of land, one and one-tenth of an acre in 

 size, amounted to 5,040 pounds, with a moisture of thirty 

 per cent. 



The soil is evidently in suitable condition for studying the 

 special effects of various forms and kinds of plant food on 

 the corn durins: the cominjj season. 



It is worthy to notice the fact, that vigorous corn crops, 

 growing upon fertilized fields, alongside, upon a similar soil, 

 showed no smut at the same period of growth. 



2. Influence of Fertilizers on the Quantity and 

 Quality of Fodder Crops. 



[See Sketch B, p. 409.1 



The land selected for the experiment had been used, for 

 several years previous, for the production of hay. At the 

 bewinnino- of the season of 1883, it had been ploughed and 

 planted with corn, without the addition of any fertilizer. 

 The soil consisted of a good sandy loam, and was, in con- 

 sequence of its previous treatment, in a suitably impov- 

 erished condition to respond to the application of fertilizers. 



The entire field, consisting of one and one-tenth of an 

 acre, was sub-divided into plats, each one-tenth of an acre 

 in size. Every alternate plat was fertilized at the rate of 

 six hundred pounds of ground, rendered bones, and two 

 hundred pounds of muriate of potash, per acre. The fer- 

 tilizer was applied a few days before seeding, and slightly 

 harrowed under. 



The fertilized plats (Nos. 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 21) 

 were seeded May 13 ; and the mifertilized plats (Nos. 12, 

 14, 16, 18 and 20) May 17, 1884. 



The experiment comprised four standard grasses, i. e,. 

 Orchard grass (Daclylis glomeraia)^ Meadow fescue {Fres- 

 iuca pralensis) , Timothy (Phleum pratensis), and Redtop 

 (Agrostis vulgaris), besides two millets, — Hungarian 



