344 REPORT OF THE FARM SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 
FERTILIZER EXPERIMENT IN FIELD D— OATS. 
The question here is: What elements, or combination of fer- 
tilizing elements, does this field require in order to produce the 
largest or most profitable crop ? 
The part of the field devoted to oats is 918 feet long from east 
to west, and strips of one-fifth of an acre in area require the 
8-tube Empire drill to sow with one end tube shut off, so the plat 
consists of 14 rows 918 feet long. 
To separate these plats so that no influence of the fertilizer 
sown on one should be felt on the adjacent plats, a strip of seven 
rows (one width of drill) was sown between plats without fertilizer, 
and with a blank row on each side between the plats and inter- 
mediate strip. The oats and fertilizers were drilled in May 
5th and 7th. 
The different fertilizers and amounts of each applied to these 
plats are given in the table below. 
In all cases where the fertilizer was not all distributed when the 
grain was sown, the grain was shut off and the drill driven over 
the ground again. This, with cleaning the box and the distrib- 
uting cups after every lot, so delayed the work that five plats 
were left unsown over Sunday and the sowing completed on 
Monday. | 
When the oats vegetated it was noticed that two rows on the 
four plats L, M, N and O were blank from the clogging of tubes. 
As rain had fallen and softened the surface, these two rows were 
drilled over again as soon as the condition of the ground would 
permit. 
Extracts from Notes Taken on Growth. 
June 2. Oats on plats H and I appear to lead in growth. 
June 18. Oats of plats A, B, C, D and K seem to be about 
equal in development and lead all the others, while H and I are 
noticeably larger than adjoining strips. 
June 19. At this date oats on plats A and B and intermediate 
strips are recorded as being in watery milk stage. 
Oats on D were passing to white milk stage. 
Oats on CO, E, F, G, H, I, J and K in white milk stage. K is 
_ darker green and less turned than others. 
