58 MAIXE -TATE COIXEGE 



Weight r Green Pre I. This was ascertained by cutting the 

 whole field, and hauling to the barn and weighing as fast as cut. 



Determination of Dry Matter. Several hundred pounds care- 

 fully selected from the several rows of each plot were cut by the 

 horse power fodder cutter, thoroughly mixed, from which a large 

 sample was taken for drying in a steam closet. 



il Anal se results have been described in pre- 



vious pages. The ordinary analysis was by the methods of the 

 A. O. A. C. 



Digestion "Experiments. These trials have been carried on e: 

 with iaUy dried fodder or with the silage made from it. The 



detailed results of these experiments have been previously gi 



Manuring and Method r P mti . 1892. Field No. 1. 

 one acre, soil, a loam, somewhat lighter than clayey loam, shading 

 towards sandy. Summer fallowed in it I to kill witch grass. 

 About six cords of stable manure and a fertilizer consisting of 

 four hundred pounds dissolved bone bla hundred pounds 



muriate of potash, and seventy-five ponn plied 



in spring. Planted in ,ree and one-half feet apart, with 



kernels six inches apart in drills. Level, clean culture. Planted 

 May 19th. harvested Septe to 9th. 



Fiel Nc - Size, one ere, soil, clayey loam. PI corn 



in 1891. About seven cords of stable manure and the same amount 

 and kind of fertilizer as on Field No. I, applied in spring. Cul- 

 ture and planting same as Field No. 1. Planted May 19th, har- 

 vests 1 September 6th-9th. 



1893. Field No. i. same as in 1892 j.ble 



manure and five hundred pounds of Bay State fertilizer, a 

 spring. Planting and culture as 1892. Planted May 31st. har- 

 veste 14th to 1 6th 



Field Nc - same as in 1892. Manurin_ ig and culture 



same as Field No. 1. Planted May 31st, harvested September 

 14th to 1 



In both fields, during both years, each acre was divided into 

 twenty plots, the tvro kinds of corn alt ig, ten plots being 



devot h. It is scarcely e conditions more 



uniform in which to compare the growth of two crops than ex 

 in these experiments. 



The re^ ired are concisely stated in Table XXX. all inter- 



sach as size of plots and yield pi <=iQg omitted. 



The figures for the three years previous are stated for the sake 

 of comparison 



