which, on an average, may be placed at $20.00 (that is about 

 twice the cost of the fertilizer, chemicals and ashes.) This 

 amount of manure was used because it was believed to be about 

 what our farmers would call a full average application for corn. 



PARTIES WHO UNDERTOOK THE WORK. 



The thanks of the Station and of the farmers of the State 

 are due the following gentlemen who assisted in this under- 

 taking : Hon. D. H. Goodell, Governor of the State, Antrim, 

 N. H. ; Hon. Warren Brown, Pres't Board of Control, Hampton 

 Falls, N. H. ; Hon. S. B. Whittemore, Member of Board of 

 Control and of Board of Agriculture, Colebrook, N. H. ; 

 Alonzo Towle, M. D., Member Board of Agriculture, Freedom, 

 N. H. ; Charles McDaniel, Esq., Master State Grange, West 

 Springfield, N. H. ; F. T. Stanton, B. S., Strafford Corner, N. 

 H. ; C. C. Beaman, Esq., Cornish, N. H. ; James Wood, Esq., 

 Lebanon, N. H. ; J. L. Gerrish, Esq., Mast Yard, N. H.; J. E. 

 Whitcher, Esq., Strafford, N. H. 



The last mentioned experiment was a continuation of a se- 

 ries commenced in 1888, and ruined by the early frost of that 

 year, it cannot be compared with the other results since the 

 plan was materially modified the past year. 



PLAN OF FIELD. 



The outside dimensions of the plowed field were to be 185 

 feet by 281 feet, this enabled one to lay off 20 plots each 33 

 feet by 66 feet, leaving an outside blank space four (4) feet 

 wide all around the field and a space three (3) feet wide between 

 each plot. Each plot was to have ten (10) rows with twenty 

 (20) hills in each row or at the rate of 4000 hills per acre. 



Table 1 is so arranged that the number of the plot is shown 

 across the top, the kind of fertilizer used is shown in the left 

 hand column ; the number of pounds of any given substance 

 used on a given plot will be found by looking opposite that 

 substance, in the column* marked at the top with the number 

 of the plot, for example, if it is desired to know what the fertil- 

 izer on plot 13 was, we look in the column headed 13, following 

 down this we come to . 16}^ pounds and looking at the left of 

 this we see that this was dissolved bone black ; 5 pounds of 

 muriate of potash and 3^ pounds of sulphate of ammonia, 

 make up the total application on that plot. 



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