
New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 275 
TRIAL OF CARROTS FOR CATTLE FOOD. 
Eleven varieties of carrots were sown, but so poor a stand of 
plants was obtained that it is hardly worth while to tabulate and 
calculate them. The five greatest yields per acre are given below 
but if the blank spaces of row were taken into consideration, the 
yields from area actually occupied would be much larger. 
Bushels 
peracre 
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On the whole area devoted to carrots there was produced 11,914 
pounds, at the rate of 441.3 bushels per acre. 
FERTILIZER EXPERIMENTS WITH GRASS. 
In 1888 two duplicate series of one-twelfth acre plats were 
laid off and fertilized,* with the expectation of learning whether a 
special fertilizer was needed in either of those fields or whether 
they would respond best to a complete fertilizer, 7. e., a fertilizer 
containing a moderate percentage of each of the three leading 
elements of fertility, phosphoric acid, potash and nitrogen. 
In one field the indications were that no special fertilizer was 
needed and there was no very largereturnfrom the complete fertilizer, 
The other field, however, responded to the application of 
nitrogen in all the forms applied and yielded an increase of 
se seventy per cent with sodium nitrate. 
This season, the first-named field hax been broken up and 
planted to corn, while the series of plats from which the large 
yields were obtained, have been preserved without further appli- 
cation to test the lasting effect of the various elements. Besides 
these plats a second similar series has been laid out and fertilized 
with the same elements in the same amounts, except in case of 
potassium sulphate, which was of double strength and only half 
the amount used in 1888 has been applied in 1889. This was to 
make comparison of climatic conditions, 2. ¢., to see if the field 
would yield similar results under the different meteorological con- 
ditions which different seasons are almost sure to bring. 

= - * Bulletin No. 13, new series, pp. 63-67. Seventh Annual Report, pp. 340-343. 
