FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS. r62 
COOPERATIVE FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH 
FER TICIZERS: 
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The field experiments conducted by the Station at Storrs and 
in different parts of the State have been mainly ‘soil: tests.” 
Owing to the severe drouth which was so generally unfavorable 
to farm crops during July and August, most of these experiments 
were more or less injured. At best the deductions from any one 
experiment are mainly applicable only to the particular soil upon 
which the experiment was made and, to some extent, to similar 
soils in the immediate locality. When a large number of experi- 
ments, covering a great variety of soils in different localities are 
‘studied, some general deductions may be made. This has been 
done in Bulletin ro and in the Fifth Annual Report, 1892, of this 
Station. The great number of soil test experiments there com- 
piled show that heavy, clayey soils, in Connecticut, are generally 
lacking in phosphoric acid, while the lighter, more sandy soils 
show, in general, a lack of potash. 
The object aimed at in these experiments has been to study the 
soils of different regions of the State and learn their deficiencies, 
and thus to help the owners to find how to apply fertilizers so as 
to meet the needs of particular soils and crops in an economical 
manner. In many cases where experiments have been made we 
find farmers as well able to look after the details of the work as 
a representative of the Station. As the Station has taken up so 
many other lines of work it has been thought best not to continue 
‘soil tests”? as a regular branch of our work, but as far as indi- 
vidual farmers wish to test their own soil, to give instruction and 
‘advice. : 
The following persons and organizations have codperated in 
this class of experiments during the past year: 
POST OFFICE. 
J. M. Hull, - - - - - - = Madison. 
dale welsey, - 2 - r . - Madison. 
Eek Clauss; - - - - 2 2 Rockville. 
Bkonki Grange, {> - : - = - - Ekonk, 
The Station, = - - - - = Pe Storrse 
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