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Ithaca, N. Y. 

 (N,.. 8500 



I'nfortunately the sample of soil was not taken at Ithaca until 

 aiul in the meanwhile a crop of oats and a crop of hay from clover 

 and timothy had been harvested. Tin- analysis of the sample of soil 

 from the plat on which the beets were grown in 1JH1 is, however. 

 submitted with the above explanation. 



J ///<*, //>//</. 

 (No. 25114.) 



The sample of soil from the plat on which the beets were grown in 

 1901 was not taken until HML>. and Mr. Atkinson, writing under date 

 of October US. P.MI2, in regard to this soil, says: 



I may say that then 1 was a crop of soy heans irrown on this plat during HOL\ but I 

 have had samples of the soil of the first 6 inches, the second 6 inches, and the 

 third > inches taken, and will forward them to you if you desire to have them now. 

 Of course I understand that the soy beans will have produced a very marked effect 

 on the .soil, particularly on the amount of nitrogen present. However, I shall dry 

 the samples and forward them to you, and hope that they may be of some use in 

 compiling results. 



The samples sent were so .small that the three were mixed and one 

 analysis made. 



Potomac Flats, Washington, I). C. 



(No. 25125.) 



This soil is an alluvial silt pumped from the Washington harbor 

 side of the Potomac River. It was first plowed in 1898, and has never 

 been fertilized. In 1899 the plat lay fallow, and in 1900 it was in 

 corn. 



No sample was forwarded from this station, but the soil in which 

 the experiments were conducted is described a*s the clay loam of the 

 station farm known as bluegrass soil. 



Geneva, N. Y. 



No sample of soil was received from Geneva, but the* following 



descriptive data were furnished, relating to the fertilixer experiment-: 

 The general character of the soil was that of a clay loam. Compara 

 tive experiments were carried on with farm manure and commercial 

 fertilizer, and for the first time in four years the beets raised on the 

 plats to which the commercial fertilizer had been applied were supe- 

 rior to those on which stable manure had been applied. rt This is 



For a full discussion of the work from this point of view see Bui. No. 205, N. Y. 

 Kxp. Sta., Influence of Manure on Sugar Beets, December, 1901. 



