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ordinary machinery will not deliver as much per acre as is 
needed and the land must be gone over at least twice; while in 
applying it from a wagon there is a marked tendency for the 
dust to be extremely irritating unless the wind is just right. 
’ 
EXPERIMENTS BEGUN IN 1905. 
In the experiments which were begun in this year for the pur- 
pose of testing the effect of inoculation the farmers were left 
largely to their own resources in the matter of testing other 
factors. 
Lime was suggested as one of the factors which it was espe- 
cially desirable to observe. Among the experimenters who used 
lime in some form in their alfalfa fields five of them so arranged 
their plats as to give dependable results, which are shown in 
Table III. 
TABLE IJJ.—ExPERIMENTS BEGUN IN 1905 SHowING THE ErrecT oF LIME 
ON ALFALFA. . 



No , 
lime] Lime 
a 
Name Post Office County Township Sg 
n g nN 
n 5 a 
8), 24.8 
Ss) a} 8 
mes ets at Pe 
M iam MN 
Carr, Geo. L....|Martville.:... Cayigaads .««% Sterling.....; — | + | + 
Clothier, H. B...|Silver Creek...|Chautauqua...|Hanover....| — | + | — 
Potter, Jas. W’. Collins: 0". Erie Aa Fe PA Collins UH, Ge. i oe, 
Tobey, E. P....|Smyrna......|Chenango..... Smyrna. ....| — | + | + 
Wilcox, Chet....|Wellsburg....|/Chemung..... Ashland. .... —|+),— 
FLLOUGIB.:, see cc Joye Leh 0k Ream aM uae iain eo Gis (1h? cca ae —5| +5) —3 
+2 



In all cases there was a noticeable improvement resulting 
from the use of lime and in two cases this improvement was 
sufficient to change a field from a failure to a success. 
