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ACTUAL YIELD OF PLATS. 



QUALITY OF ASH AND FIKE HOLDING CAPACITY. FIRST YKAR. 



Jiuilitv of A.'rh. 



Plats. 



Fire holding capacity. 



According to plats. 



Plat. 



Seconds. 



The results of the experiment showed in many ways the adverse 

 influence of an unfavorable season. 



Second year, (1894.) The field, the arrangement of the plats and 

 the application of the fertilizers used, were the same as in the pre- 

 ceding year. One plat was added to the list to compare the effect 

 of barnyard manure, under otherwise fairly corresponding conditions 

 with that of the various mixtures of chemicals and commercial fer- 

 tilizing materials used upon the other plats. The new plat (Plat 

 11) received 1640 pounds of barnyard manure per plat or ten tons 

 per acre. 



The tobacco plants were set out June 5th upon plats 1,10, 2, 9, 

 3, 8, and part of 4 and 7 ; the remainder were set June 7th and 8th. 



The growth of plants was on the whole very satisfactory and but 

 few plants were missing and the crop when harvested, September 7th 



