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New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 169 
Five main plats, designated on the Station chart as D 10-14, 
inclusive, containing one-twentieth acre each, were devoted to this 
experiment. The marks made by the corn-marker were furrowed 
by traversing each one twice with the plow, turning the soil in 
opposite directions. 
Commencing with the first furrow in each plat and following 
with each alternate one, 61 pounds of “New Process Special 
Potato Fertilizer” were strewn in the bottom of the furrow. 
This application was at the rate of 1,000 pounds per acre. The 
fertilizer was then mixed with the soil by means of the hoe, 
after which half tubers, from medium-sized potatoes cut length- 
wise, were dropped in the drills two feet apart, and each cutting 
covered with two large hoefuls of soil. 
In the intermediate rows the cuttings were placed in the bottom 
of the furrow and each one covered with one hoeful of soil, after 
which the same amount of fertilizer was applied, when each cut- 
ting received an additional hoeful of soil. The planting was 
commenced May 8, but the wind rising before it was com- 
pleted, which prevented the application of the fertilizer, had to be 
postponed until the following day. 
In the subjoined table are given separately the yields of the 
four rows of each plat receiving the two methods of fertilizing, 
and at the right the differences in favor of either method. 


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Net difference in favor of fertilizer below 
the seed 36 |67 1-4 


