COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 87 



EXPERIMENT WITH COMMERCIAL FER- 

 TILIZERS. 



FRANIvLIN. 



Statement of D. O. Fish. 



This experiment was made upon two acres of ground, one- 

 half bearing potatoes the year previous and one-half sowed 

 with oats the same year ; lightly manured this year with barn- 

 yard manure, evenly distributed and ploughed in, the rows 

 running east and west or crosswise of the oat and potato field 

 of 1872. We put equal values of the several fertilizers in 

 the hill, eight rows of each of the following-named varieties, 

 to wit : — 



Enoch Coe's Phosphate. 



Oscar Foot's Bone. 



Wilson's Superphosphate. 



Stevens' Mineral Fertilizer, N. H. 



Bay State do. 



Plaster and Hen Manure. 



Green Mountain Soluble Phosphate. 



Sea Fowl Guano, Bradley's. 



Bradley's X L Superphosphate. 



Quinnippiac do. 



Zell's do. from Baltimore, Md. 



Owing to the cold and backward spring, some of the corn 

 failed to come, and at the first hoeing, where a hill was miss- 

 ing, we planted white beans, as is our usual custom. This 

 corn was treated in all points alike, being well hoed three 

 times, cut up by the roots the 2d of September, four rows to 

 a stook, making two rows of stooks to each sort, and a good 

 load of each, and husked by itself and weighed on the ear or 



