68 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



3. Influence of Fertilizers on the Quantity and the 

 Quality of some Prominent Fodder Crops. 



[Field B.] 



The land selected for the experiment had been used, for sev- 

 eral years previous, for the production of hay. At the begin- 

 ning of the season of 1883 it had been ploughed and planted 

 with corn, without the addition of any fertilizer. The soil con- 

 sisted of a good sandy loam, and was, in consequence of its 

 previous treatment, in a suitably impoverished condition to 

 respond to the application of fertilizers. 



The entire field, consisting at that time of one and one-tenth 

 of an acre, was subdivided 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 fertilizer was 

 applied a few days before seeding, and slightly harrowed 

 under. 



The experiment in 1884 comprised four standard grasses, 

 i. e., Orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata) , Meadow fescue {Fes- 

 tuca pratense) , Timothy {Phleum pratense) and Redtop {Agi'O- 

 tis vulgaris) , besides two Millets, Hungarian grass {Panicum . 

 Germanicum) and Pearl millet {Penicillaria spicaid)^ and one 

 variety of corn, Clark. (See sketch of Field B, 1884-1885.) 



The plats Nos. 11, 13, 15, 19 and 21 were fertilized; and 

 Nos. 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 received no manurial matter of 

 any description. 



In the case of the grasses and millets, each plat was again 

 subdivided into two, and each half seeded down with one dis- 

 tinct kind of grass seed as follows : — 



T., . ,, /^ ^-i- ^\ /Orchard Grass (north side), 



Plat 11 (fertilized), \ ^^ . t- \ <.i •/ ^ 



^ ^ V Meadow Fescue (south side). 



■r,! 4. -.n / e .•!• JN /Orchard Grass (north side). 



Plat 12 (unfertilized), . . . • \ ^, . t- , .x, -a \ 



^ I Meadow Fescue (south side). 



Plat 13 rfertilized^ r Hungarian Grass (north side), 



Plat Id (teituizeaj \ Pearl Millet (south side). 



™ ^ ,. , p .... ,. /Hungarian Grass (north side). 



Plat 14 (unfertilized), . . . • | p^^.^ Millet (south side). 



