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lana Mineral Fertilizer and laid out and full directions have 

 been left relative to the plans with Mr. Bonns, our horticultur- 

 ist, who is at Tlighmoor Farm, and Mr. Sinclair, the superin- 

 tendent of the farm. The plots will probably be planted during 

 my absence, and you will be notified as far in advance as prac- 

 ticable of the exact date when the planting will be done." 



All six of the plots were planted on May 30 in the presence 

 of a representative of the company. At that time the represen- 

 tative claimed that not a sufficient amount of Mineral Fertilizer 

 was being used, and this matter was pointed out in a letter from 

 the company under date of June 2. 



Under date of June 5 the following letter was sent to the 

 New England Mineral Fertilizer Company : 



"Your letter of June 2 is at hand. We will gladly use all the 

 New England ^Mineral Fertilizer on the plots where we are 

 using it that you desire to be added. When I wrote you De- 

 cember 23, 1910, outlining the experiment I thought that we 

 would make a tenth acre of each plot and, therefore, asked you 

 to send the needed amount of New England Mineral Fertilizer 

 to fertilizer one-tenth of an acre of potatoes and one-tenth of 

 an acre of corn, asking that it be shipped to the Experiment 

 Station at Monmouth. We received from you one bag which 

 contained considerably less than 100 pounds. You did not 

 send any directions for its use but said that you would have 

 a representative present at the time of planting. * " ''' * * 

 We will add any further amount of your fertilizer on the plots 

 on which it is used that you may wish to send to the Experi- 

 ment Station at Monmouth. My thought in the letter of De- 

 cember 23 was to have you fertilize the plots which were to be 

 grown with the New England Mineral Fertilizer exactly as 

 you wanted them. In the last sentence of the first paragraph of 

 your letter of June 2 you say 'It seems to me that the test 

 which you are giving our fertilizer is extremely unfair.' I 

 have compared the report of your representative with your 

 letter of December 23 and do not See wherein they difJFer in any 

 essentials with the exception that the size of the plots was 

 changed to one-twentieth of acre instead of one-tenth of an 

 acre, as originally planned. If the unfairness consists in using 

 a too little amount of the New England Mineral Fertilizer 1 



