AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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EXPERIMENTAL FIELD Xo. 2. 



North. 



No. 1. 



20 loads (6} cords) Stable 

 Manure per acre. 



2.1 Acres. 



No. 2. 



1,003 lbs. South Carolina 

 Rock, 66 lbs. nitrate of 

 soda, 16 lbs. sulphate of 

 ammonia, 100 lbs. muri- 

 ate of potash per acre. 



2^ Acres. 



No. 3. 



500 lbs. Acid South Caro- 

 lina Rock, 66 lbs. nitrate 

 of soda, 16 lbs. sulphate 

 of ammonia, 100 lbs. mu- 

 riate of potash per acre. 



2^ Acres. 



No. 4. 

 No manure. 



2k Acres. 



South. 



In 1890 the fertilizers were applied, since which four crops have 

 been grown. In 1891 the plots were sown to oats and seeded to 

 clover, but this was all killed during the succeeding winter, so that 

 the land was again plowed in the spring of 1892 and sown to barley, 

 which was cut and cured for hay. During the summer of 1893 the 

 plots were kept fallow and tilled as an attempt to eradicate certain 

 most pernicious cruciferous weeds. In 1894 the land was again 

 sown to oats, but as the crucifers were not all exterminated and it 

 was desirable that they should not ripen and scatter their seeds, the 

 oats were cut before maturing and used for silage. 



Large samples (1,000 pounds from each plot) of the green oats 

 were selected and cured, from which smaller samples of air-dry 

 material were taken in order to determine the percentage of dry 

 matter in the crop as cut. 



