FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS. IOI 
FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS. 
BY C: S, PHELPS. 
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The field experiments conducted by the Station during the 
year 1895 have been carried out mainly on the Station land at 
Storrs. The cooperative soil tests on farms in different parts 
of the State, which have been an important part of our work 
in past years, have been discontinued owing to the press of 
work in other lines. It has been our experience that the soil 
tests have mainly a local value, and that many of our enter- 
prising farmers can, with a little direction from the Station, 
carry out these experiments for themselves nearly or quite as 
well as if they were under the immediate supervision of an 
officer of the Station. For these reasons we have decided to 
give directions for the work wherever it may be desired, and 
leave all of the details to the person upon whose farm the test 
is to be made. 
One experiment on corn on the farm owned by Ekonk 
Grange, which was started in 1894 was continued through the 
past year. 
The field work with fertilizers has been mainly of three 
kinds, as follows: 
I. Special nitrogen experiments on corn, legumes, and 
grasses, for the purpose of studying the effect of different 
quantities of nitrogen on the yield and composition of the crop. 
2. Asoil test by the Station at Storrs,and by Ekonk Grange 
at Hkonk. 
3. Experiments on the improvement of eda ‘“plain-land’’ 
soils by green manuring. 
SPECIAL NITROGEN EXPERIMENTS. 
In the fall of 1894 the plots on the field at the Station, that 
had been used for several years for special nitrogen experi- 
ments on grasses, were sub-divided into a number of smaller 
plots of one-fiftieth of an acre each, and experiments were 
planned for the purpose of comparing the effects of fertilizers 
on the yield and composition of two varieties of corn, and 
several varieties of legumes. Each of the smaller plots was to 
have the same treatment as regards kind and proportions of © 
