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crops should be seeded, cultivated, and harvested according 

 to best scientific practices. 



8. Weighing. It is of great benefit to have scales availa- 

 ble for use on the farm. Bone-meal may be purchased in 

 200-pound bags, and manure and limestone may be estimated 

 by the wagon load or fraction thereof. This should only be 

 done when it is impossible, without inconvenience, to gain 

 access to scales. 



9. Sign boards. For the benefit of visitors it is well to 

 have small sign boards for the plots to indicate the treatment. 

 Use these abbreviations: 



No treatment. 



MLP Manures, limestone, and phosphate. 



Still other sign boards might be made on which could be 

 tacked cardboard bearing the yields of crops the previous 

 year. 



10. Reports and general information. 



Name ." Age 



Location County... Township... Range... Section... Quarter... 



Topography of land Rolling, level. 



Soil Type: 

 Surface 

 Subsoil 



Drainage Natural, open ditches, or tile drains. 



Location of Plot on Farm 



Is it representative of the entire farm? 



(Try to avoid abnormal spots which are not representative, such 



as stock bottoms, hog lots, feed plots.) 



Previous History of Plot State what crops have been grown, rota- 

 tions practiced, cornstalks burned or plowed under, manure or 

 fertilizers applied. 



