120 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



out this entire section was in general the poorest known for 

 years. The cabbages made a healtliy growth, but, as the 

 season proved, were started much too late. With average 

 summer temperatures the crop would have matured, but 

 under tlie conditions of the past season few heads reached 

 marketable development. The number of such heads on 

 the muriate of potash was considerably more than on the 

 sulfate, and the total weight of the crop on the muriate was 

 at the rate of about 4,400 pounds per acre greater than on 

 the sulfate. In the case of the onions the total weight of 

 crop produced, including scallions and tops, was at the rate 

 of about 1,000 pounds per acre greater on the muriate than 

 on the sulfate, but there were only 5 bushels more of good 

 onions. In view of the nature of the results with these two 

 crops, further details concerning them will not be given. 



1. Soy Beans (^Sulfate v. Muriate of Potash). 

 The variety of soy beans grown in this experiment was the 

 medium green. This crop occupied two plots (17 and 18), 

 which last year produced a crop of cabbages. The yield of 

 cabbages last year on the sulfate of potash was at the rate 

 of about 5 tons to the acre more than on the muriate. The 

 crop this year suffered from no accidental conditions affect- 

 ing results, but owing to the unfavorable season the yields 

 were very small. The results are shown in the table : — 



Muriate v. High-grade Sulfate of Potash. — Meditim Green Soy Beans, 



Yields ]3cr Acre. 



Fertilizers used. 



Beans 



(Bushels). 



straw 

 (I'ounds). 



Muriate of potasli, . . . • 11.20 1,000 



Sulfate of potash, 10.73 689 



It will be noted that the yield of beans is slighth^ greater 

 on the muriate than on the sulfate ; the difference, however, 

 is exceedingly small, and no especial significance can be 

 attached to it. In previous years the sulfate of potash has 

 usually given the better crop of this variety of beans, and I 

 am still inclined to advise its selection. The greater deple- 



