202 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



comment, to enable us to accumulate more fticts for the 

 support of our conclusions. Upon a few sul)sequent pages 

 will be found a description of the management of the experi- 

 ments during the season of 1893, accompanied by a brief 

 compilation and discussion of all the results thus far obtained. 



The entire field was ploughed April 26, and the fertilizer 

 mixtures given in the previous tabular statement w^ere applied 

 broadcast to the plats. The soil Avas subsequently harrowed 

 and pulverized. All the crops were sown or planted as cir- 

 cumstances advised in rows two and one-half feet apart. 

 Each of the different crops was sown or planted on the same 

 day in all cases. Celery, cabbages, lettuce and tomatoes 

 were raised in hot-beds, and afterwards transplanted to the 

 different plats ; while with spinach, beets and potatoes the 

 seed w^as sown directly ui)on the plats. 



The following order in arranging the different crops was 

 adopted, beginning in each plat at its western end : — 



Two rows of spiuacb, variety New Zealand. 



One row of celery, variety Dwarf Golden Heart. 



One row of lettuce, variety Hanson. 



One row of red cabbage, variety Red Dutch. 



Two rows of beets, variety Edmund's Blood Turnip. 



Five rows of potatoes, variety Beauty of Hebron. 



Two rows of beets, variety P^dmund's Blood Turnip. 



Three rows of cabbages, variety Fottler's. 



Two rows of tomatoes, variety Essex Hybrid. 



The order of arrangement of the dilierent crops within each 

 plat was the same in all of them for the same year. They 

 occupied, however, a different position relative to each other 

 in successive years, to introduce, as far as practicable, a 

 system of rotation of crops. 



Order of arrangement of crops in plats : — 



