no AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



1888. — At thfe beginning of the season but few changes 

 became necessary in the management of the field ; for, plats 

 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 being still occupied by a 

 perennial vegetation, only plats 11, 12, 15 and IG required 

 particular attention in that direction. It was decided to add 

 the Kentucky blue-grass {Festuca pratensis) and the Soja 

 bean {Soja hisj)ida) to our list of prominent crops on trial 

 upon field " B." 



Plats 11 and 12 were seeded down, in drills two feet 

 apart, with Kentucky blue-grass; and plats 15 and 16 with 

 Soja beans, in rows three feet and three inches apart, to cor- 

 respond with tlie rule adopted for grasses and leguminous 

 plants. In both instances one plat was fertilized in the same 

 way as heretofore, with fine-ground bones and muriate of 

 potash (11 and 15), and the other two (12 and 16) received 

 no fertilizer. The Kentucky blue-grass was seeded down 

 rather late, May 24, and the Soja beans May 18. The 

 mechanical condition of the soil was in both cases very sat- 

 isfoctory for the work. 



Those plats which were still occupied by perennial plants, 

 planted in preceding years, were treated between the rows 

 at an early date with the cultivator, and subsequently the 

 weeds and foreign growth in the rows removed with the hoe 

 and the hand. Plats 13, 17, 19 and 21 received at the same 

 time their annual supply of manure, consisting of fine-ground 

 bones and muriate of potash. Plats 14, 16, 18 and 20 re- 

 ceived none. 



As the plats were 175 feet long and 33 feet wide, equal to 

 an area of 5,775 square feet, each received a mixture of 80 

 pounds of ground bones and 27 pounds of muriate of potash. 



The subsequent enumeration of crops raised upon field 

 " B," during the years 1887 and 1888, shows the change 

 made in crops at the beginning of the past season. 



