1888.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 123 



2. 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 

 several years for the production of hay. At the beginning 

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

 corn, without th". addition of any fcrtiliz'-r. The soil con- 

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

 previous treatment, in a suitahlij hnpovtvialied condition to 

 respond to the application of fertilizers. 



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

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

 acre in size. Every alternate plat was lertiiized at the rate 

 of six hundred pounds of ground, rendered l^ones, and two 

 hundred jiounds of muriate of potash, per acre. The fertil- 

 izer was applied a few days before seeding, and slightly har- 

 rowed under. 



1884. — The experiment in this year comprised four stand- 

 ard grasses; i.e., Orchard grass (^Dactijlis glonieruta). 

 Meadow Fescue (^Festaca prat'-nse), Timothy (^Pldeum 

 pratenf^e) and Redtop (^Agrostis vulgaris), besides two Mil- 

 lets, Hungarian grass (Pa)iicuni Germanicum) and Pearl 

 Millet (^Penicillaria spicata) , and one variety of corn, 

 Clark. 



Plats No. 11, 13, 15, 19 and 21 were fertilized; and Nos. 

 12, 14, IG, 18 and 20 received no manurial msitter of any 

 description. In the case of the grasses and millets, each 

 plat was again sub-divided into two, and each half seeded 

 down with one distinct kind of grass seed, as follows : — 



Plat No. 11 (fertilized), . . . S Orchard Grass (north side). 



( Meadow rescue (south sule). 



r>i i -vT ir. / £<-•!• IN S Oi'chard Grass (north side). 



Plat No. 12 (unferUhzed), . s ,, , ,, , , ., 



( Meadow re cue (south side). 



r>i 4. -VT io /* ^-i- IN Wli^ni^iii'ian tirass (north side). 



Plat No. 13 (fertdized), . . • < ,, ?,..,, , / -i . 

 ^ ^ I Pearl Millet (south side). 



■Di t -VT 1A / n 4.M- i\ S lliiii^'i'i'iii'r] Grass (north side). 



Plat No. 14 (unfertilized), . . < ° ^ , ^ 



^ ^ ( Pearl Millet (south side). 



Plat No. 15 (fertilized), . . . \ '^''"^"^^^^^ ^''""''^ f^'^)- 



(. liedtop (south side). 



