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New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT SraTION. 283 
June twenty-fifth, the grass on plats A, B, D and K had lodged 
and on plats H and I; the clover was better than on the interme- 
diate strips. 
At the time of cutting, the grass on these ae (noted above as 
having lodged) was down nearly flat, while on all the others it was 
upright. Of the lodged grass, Timothy was greatly in excess, as 
there seemed to be less clover, or less in proportion, than on 
other plats, and there was very little of any other grass. 
There was apparently a greater percentage of clover on plats H 
and J, where it grew more luxuriantly than on the other plats. 
The plats were sampled and cut substantially the same as the 
series fertilized last season. The samples were all taken before 
noon of the eighth of July, the grass was all cut on that day and 
was all made into hay on that and the succeeding day, and weighed 
and housed on the ninth. 
The weather was exceptionally fine for haying during the whole 
plat harvesting and the hay ought to have been made nearly as 
average hay. | 
The harvest weights and other data are given in the same order 
as for the series fertilized in 1888, and not refertilized this year. 
In this series the complete fertilizer on plant K gave the highest 
per cent of gain closely followed: by the plats B, D and A, which 
received only nitrogen as sulphate of ammonia, nitrogen and 
potash as sodium nitrate and nitrogen alone as nitrate of soda 
respectively. The difference between the per cent of gain on these 
plats is small and in just the reverse order from the results of last 
year on the first series of plats. This is, without doubt, largely 
due to the heavy rainfall. 
It is doubtless due largely to the solvent action of this heavy 
fall of rain on the manure that plat C yielded twenty-one per cent 
increase. 
The plat to which muck was applied gave a smaller crop than 
either of the unmanured plats, and was the only one which did not 
show a considerable gain as the result of the top dressing, though 
in no case was the increase enough to pay for the fertilizer used 
at the market rate for the crop grown, although in two cases the 
yield was increased from the average of the unmanured plat, 2.434 
tons to 3.306 and 3.342 tons per acre respectively. 
