FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS, 11g 
FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS. 
BY @.)S. 2 oLeGes. 

The Station has continued its codperative field experiments 
through a sixth year, the plan being essentially the same as that 
adopted in the spring of 1888. 
The field experiments conducted by the Station at Storrs and 
on fatms in different parts of the State for the year 1893, have 
been largely “‘Soil Tests.” One “Special Nitrogen” experiment 
on Hungarian grass was made at the Station. 
Owing to the severe drought during July and August the crops 
on nearly all of the fields experimented upon were considerably 
injured, and the effects of the fertilizers were much less than 
might otherwise have resulted. On many of the fields the texture 
and the amount of organic matter of the soil of different plots 
varied considerably, and hence the available moisture supply was 
not the same on all. This, in most of the experiments, influenced 
the plot yields unequally and makes deductions from the use of 
the fertilizers more or less unreliable. For this reason there are 
given, for several of the experiments, simply tabulations of the 
results without deductions or comment. In other words, most of 
the experiments are made of little value by the drought, never- 
theless it seems wise to put the results on record. 
The object aimed at is to study the soils of different regions, 
learn their deficiencies, and find how to apply fertilizers so as to. 
meet the needs of particular soils and crops in an economical 
way. The wide variations in soils indicate that the results of any 
one experiment are applicable only to the particular soil experi- 
mented upon, or to soils of a similar character. Where this class 
of experimenting is wholly on the Station farm, the work has only 
a local value, and in order to make the experiments of highest 
value to the farmers of the State they must be carried out ina 
considerable number of places. If the important operations, such 
as the selection of the field, the laying out of the plots, the plant- 
ing, the application of the fertilizers, and the weighing and har- 
vesting of the crop, are under the supervision of an officer of the 
