320 FORAGE CROPS 
dollars per acre per year, in addition to paying 
for all the fertilizer applied, while the land at 
the close of the five years was more valuable 
than at the beginning of the test. This plan of 
growing hay would not only result in increasing 
the value per acre to the farmer, but largely 
improved his soil for other crops.” 
Recent experiments at Cornell (Bulletins 232, 
241) did not give very encouraging results on tim- 
othy with fertilizers alone (muriate potash, acid 
phosphate, nitrate of soda, and combinations) as 
compared with good stable manure: “It is per- 
fectly obvious from these experiments that, on 
the Dunkirk clay loam on which this experiment 
was conducted and in this climate and under the 
conditions of this experiment, stable manure, 
at fifty cents a load,! brought much better finan- 
cial results than any application of commercial 
fertilizer at current prices for the same. It also 
demonstrates that on this soil, which has been 
under cultivation for two or three generations, 
when stable manure is available, excellent crops 
of timothy hay may be produced. Where stable 
manure can be procured in sufficient quantity, 
the use of commercial fertilizers is not necessary. 
1In making such comparisons as this, everything depends on the 
value placed on the manure. It is possible that fifty cents a loa for 
manure is a comparable price on some farms, but farmers cannot buy 
manure and haul it at this figure. One dollar a load is probably a fairer 
price; and for city manures even this figure must be at least doubled. 
