AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. VII 



(43) Fertilizer Experiments with Orchards. 

 Object : A determination of the most efficient means of fertil- 

 izing worn out orchards. 



Time : Summer of 1890 and continuing. 



{44) Investigation. 



Object : A determination of the loss of fertility incurred in 

 selling sweet corn to factories, and the percentage of manurial 

 and food value contained in the whole crop that is removed in the 

 kernel. 



Time : Summer of 1889, and continuing. 



Results published : First year in Report M. E. S. 1889, pp. 286-7. 



{45) Field Experiment. 



Object : To determine whether the fertility of the soil can be 

 as effectually and economically maintained by the use of commer- 

 cial fertilizers as by farm manure. 



Time: Summer of 1890 and continuing. 



{46) Experiment. 

 Object : To illustrate the fertilizing qualities of liquid manure. 



{47) Experiment. 

 Object : A determination of the availability of the potash in 

 potash feldspar as a source of potash for the potato crop. 

 Time : Summer of 1890. 



(48) Investigation. 

 Object : A determination of the effect of an abundant supply 

 of potash salts on the composition of the kernel of sweet corn. 

 Time : Summer of 1890. 



{49) Experiment with Fodder Production. 

 Object : A determination of the relative amount of food value 

 produced by the grains sown alone, and in various mixtures. 

 Time : Summer of 1889, and continuing. 



{50) Digestion Experiment. 



Object : A determination of actual and relative digestibility of 

 wheat middlings and wheat bran. 

 Time: 1889. 

 Results published : Report M. E. S., 1889, pp. 61-65. 



{51) Feeding Experiment. 

 Object : To determine the effect upon milk production of chop- 



