No. 4.] 



MANURIAL PROBLEMS. 



165 



Nitrate of soda. 

 Acid pho.sphatc, 

 Muriate of potash, 



Pounds per Acre. 



. 120 



. 480 

 . 120 



Cow peas were sown and left upon the land to be plowed 

 under the next spring (1894), in preparation for Indian 

 corn. 



Below are oiven the yields of Indian corn and stover in 

 the first course and in the first two years of the second 

 course of the rotation : — 



First Course of Rotation. 



Second Course of Rotation. 



It Avill be noticed that the crop of Indian corn produced 

 in 1893, even with the aid of a liberal amount of chemical 

 manures, was but 7.14 bushels of shelled corn and .93 ton 

 of stover. In the case of plots '2'2 and 24, which had enjoyed 

 the benefit of other manurial treatment in the interim, and 

 which received stable manure before the corn at the rate of 

 4 cords per acre, the yields of shelled corn were but 47.86 

 and 50.07 bushels, and of stover but 1.05 and 1.66 tons, 

 respectivel}'. The best yield of any in the first course of 

 the rotation was upon Plot 20, in 1896, which amounted to 



