
FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS. 
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- Beside the regular soil test, two other plots were added, one 
(Y) with a medium amount of stable manure and the other (X) 
with a smaller quantity of manure, but in addition dissolved 
bone-black at the rate of 160 pounds per acre. 
SOIL TEST WITH FERTILIZERS ON COW PEAS. 

By THE STATION, Storrs. 











; YIELD PER ACRE, 
E FERTILIZERS. Piinciisa'e Water.) 
x) Lbs. 
= Kind. per Comparative Scale. Lbs. 
LCT: 
O. Nothing, - - —— 10,230 
A. Nitrate of Soda, = 160 Berm Set ie eee 10,960 
B. Dis. Bone-black, 320 sunenereennetnreersntrnenmersrmerenannnernereeememern 10,710 
Cc. Muriate of Potash, 160 ee eee ES I 1,680 
oo. Nothing, - - —_— SER RET CRETE Q,725 
Nitrate of Soda, - 160 } 
HY. Dis. Bone-black, 320 ( a Se] 12,920 
Nitrate of Soda, - 160 ( 
E 1 Muriate of Potash,| 160 $ 2S AAMAS sae CAS E5335 
§ Dis. Bone-black, 320 
( Muriate of Potash,| 160 SE EST 
Nitrate of Soda, - 160 
G. Dis. Bone-black, 320 SGP Fs EE TE BSD LE SAEED SED 16,210 
Muriate of Potash,| 160 
OOO Nothing, - = Ce EE SSE ET EL RS CT I2,100 
Stable Manure, - |12,000 iad i eo mege en 
a De foneback, | 160) ———— 15,795 
Y. | Stable Manure, - |16,000 15,875 
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Twenty pounds per acre of scarlet clover seed were sown April 

2sth, and the fertilizer was applied May gth. Very heavy rain- 
falls, which occurred early in May, packed the surface soil and 
so retarded the growth of the clover that the weeds soon gained 
Early in June it was decided that the field should be 
The land was thoroughly harrowed June 
sth and 6th, and all weeds destroyed. The field was thinly 
stocked with clover about two inches high at thistime. The 
Clay variety of cow peas was sown June 7th, in drills 2 feet 4 
inches apart, at the rate of 40 quarts per acre. The seed germi- 
nated well, and by June 17th the field was well stocked. No 
control. 
planted to cow peas. 
