New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 53 
From this table it is seen that reliable data on the combined 
action of inoculation and lime has been secured from 65 experi- 
ments. In these 65 experiments only 12 of the untreated check 
plats produced a successful crop of alfalfa while on the adjoin- 
ing plats to which inoculation and lime had been applied 50 
of the plats were a success. 
Reduced to percentages this indicates that the application 
of the inoculation and lime has increased the chance of success 
from 18 per ct. on.the check plats to 77 per ct.:on the treated 
plats or an increase of 59 per ct. due to the treatment. 
The distribution of these experiments and the indicated need 
of inoculation and lime are shown on Map 2. 
The effect of the application of inoculation and of lime as 
well as the fact that there is a wide difference in the plats which 
are included in our summaries as a success is brought out in 
Plate I. This is from a photograph of the hay cut within a 
36 inch circle on each of the four plats in the experiment of 
Mr. M. J. Barber, Silver Springs, Wyoming County, N. Y. The 
hay was cut June 12, 1908, almost exactly one year after 
the seeding of the plants. In Table I, page 36, in discussing 
the effect of inoculation the check plat is given as a failure and 
the inoculated plat as a success. In Table V, page 46, the lime 
plat is given as a success while the check is again referred to 
as a failure. Finally in the summary of the combined effect of 
inoculation and of lime, this experiment is included among 
those in which the combined application of inoculation and of 
lime changed a failure to a success. These three plats on which 
the yield is so markedly different are all rated as successes be- 
cause in all cases the plats produced a yield which made a fair 
return from the land. 
Plate II shows the effect of inoculation and liming upon the 
relative development of weeds and hay. These samples were 
cut on similar 36-inch circles on the plats in the experiment of 
James McCauley, Davenport, Delaware County. 
