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Annual Report of the 
The yield upon adjacent plats of equal size this season, was as fol¬ 
lows : 
Tips, 466 pounds. 
Middle, 414 pounds. 
Butts, 422 pounds 
No difference was visible in the quality of the corn. The result 
of five years experiment is, that it makes no difference from what 
portion of the ear seed is taken. 
Fertilizers. 
The Milwaukee Drying Company sent the University, samples of 
three fertilizers manufactured by them, viz: “ tanking,” “mixture 
of tanking and blood," and “ dried blood.” These, and a compost 
of 1 part gas-lime and 3 parts well decomposed swamp-muck, com¬ 
posted in March, 1373, and well mixed, were each applied as a top¬ 
dressing to corn, at the time of its first hoeing, June 3. The fol¬ 
lowing is the yield of equal sized plats treated respectively as de¬ 
scribed : 
“A” 
Pounds. 
1 . 14 pint u tanking '' to a hill. 356 
2. 34 pi 11 *' “ mixture v to a hill. 330 
3. No fertilizer. Standard of comparison. 336 
4. Two tablespoonfuls “ dried blood 5 '* to a hill. 365 
5. Pint gas-lime compost to a hill. 338 
“ B” 
Pounds. 
1. I 3 pint “ tanking v to a hill. 418 
2. 34 pin* “ mixture 5 7 to a hill. 428 
3. Nothing. 392 
4. Pint gas-lime compost to a hill... 407 
5. Quart gas-lime compost to a hill. 382 
A severe drought set in soon after the application of these ferti¬ 
lizers, which may have prevented their benefiting the corn as 
much as they otherwise would have done. The plants upon which 
the gas-lime compost was applied soon turned yellow, and, for a 
time, appeared like dying, and late in the summer its injurious ef¬ 
fects were distinctly visible. 
POTATOES. 
The Snow-Flake and Brownell’s Beauty, two new varieties, have 
been in cultivation for the first time. 
