soil is to-day looked apon with some disregard by farmers, 
but ex erience has shown that it responds quickly to good 
treatment. It is handled as little as possible being 
commonly kept in pastures in which there is often a scant 
herbage, and usually when the land is cropped it does not 
give as large returns as it should. 
In handling this soil care must be taken, it in good 
olay 
physical condition. Dunkirk must not be worked wet, Also 
underdrainage is in many cases essential to. success. 
Granting that the ohysical condition is important, 
and that attention to it will be profitable, the author 
believes that something else is lacking. In many cases 
where the physical conditions are nearly perfect, entirely 
satisfactory results are not obtained. Accordingly an 
attemt has been made to find what manures give beneficial 
results. 
In this work the wire basket method of the United 
States Bureau of soils was employed. Soil was procured 
trom the worst and most compact places on the Barron larn. 
The tests were carefully garried on during a period of three 
months in the winter or 1905 - 1906. in the sreenhouses 
at Cornell University. It is generally supposed by farmers 
that this soil is acid, and thus they account fog non 
suecess. Tests of the sam les were conducted poy wr. G. 
W. Tailby, several ditrerent methods being used. As a result 
