1892.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 187 



3. Experiments with Field and Garden Crops (1891). 



Field 0. 



The area occupied by this piece of land is 328 feet long 

 and 183 feet wide (60,024 square feet). The field is divided 

 into two parts, running from west to east, making thus a 

 north and south division, each 328 feet long and 90 feet 

 wide, with three feet of unoccupied space between them. 

 The soil consists of a good light loam, several feet in thick- 

 ness. The manure annually applied during preceding years 

 (1884-90) to the entire area consisted of 600 pounds of fine- 

 ground bone and 200 pounds of muriate of potash per acre. 

 The north division had been used for years for the raising of 

 miscellaneous farm and garden crops, for the purpose of 

 studying their adaptation to our clime. Upon the south 

 division during the same period grain and leguminous crops 

 were raised alternately, to serve as fodder. 



1891. -^J^oth divisions were ploughed during the pre- 

 ceding autumn, and again in the spring. The north divi- 

 sion was manured at an early date with bone and potash, 

 as in preceding years, — 600 pounds of fine-ground bone 

 and 200 pounds of muriate of potash per acre. The fertil- 

 izer was applied broadcast, and subsequently ploughed in 

 before harrowina^ and seedino;. 



The south division was subdivided into five plats of a uni- 

 form size and shape, with an unoccupied and unmanured 

 space of from four to five feet between adjoining plats. 

 Each plat running across the south division from north to 

 south covered an area of sixty-two by eighty-eight feet. 

 Each plat received a separate distinct mixture of fertilizing 

 substances, to test the effect on the quality and quantity of 

 different kinds of garden crops. 



1. North Division^ Field and Forage Crops. 



The field was prepared and manured as above stated, and 

 served as in preceding years for the cultivation of a variety 

 of field crops. The work was instituted for the purpose of 

 studying the acclimatization of a series of more or less 



