FlElvD EXPERIMENTS I906-8. IO3 



Estimated Yield of Hay.'^ 



Plot No. 2* 500 lbs. lime 3,000 lbs. 



Plot No. 3, no lime 1,500 lbs. 



Plot No. 4, 1,000 lbs. lime 2,600 lbs. 



Plot No. 5, no lime 1,300 lbs. 



Plot No. 6, 500 lbs. lime 2,800 lbs. 



Plot No. 7, no lime 2,300 lbs. 



Plot No. 8, 1,000 lbs. lime 3,ooo lbs. 



Plot No. 9, no lime 2,300 lbs. 



While the above figures are not strictly accurate they show 

 quite closely the dift'erence in yields. If a few rods of one end 

 of the plot that was low and moist had been left out the differ- 

 ence would have been still greater, for certainly on the dryer 

 portions of the field the yield of the limed plots was at least 4 

 times that of the others. 



ON THE EDBL.\D FARM. 



In 1907 a second experiment with lime was begun on the farm 

 of Air, H. Edblad of Houlton. 



The experiment covered 6 plots of one acre each. The lime 

 was applied with a fertilizer distributor at the time of seeding 

 the field in 1907 to oats, grass and clover. All plots were treated 

 alike except that to No. i was added 1000 lbs. agricultural lime, 

 No. 2, no lime. No. 3, 750 lbs. lime, No. 4, no lime, No. 5, 500 

 lbs. lime. There was no appreciable eft'ect on the yield of grain 

 (oats) and straw. 



The winter of 1907 and 1908 was open with very little snow, 

 consequently much of the clover killed out. Plot No. i ^yas on 

 lower ground than the others, was better covered with snow 

 duriiTrg the winter, and being more moist suft'ered less from the 

 dry weather of the summer of 1908 than the other plots. There 

 was a very good stand of clover all over this plot. On all the 

 other plots the clover was killed out in spots making the stand 

 somewhat uneven. The plots were harvested July 21-22 when 

 the clover was in bloom. 



The yields estimated while loading were as follows : — 



* Half acre plots. 



