. Annual report. Agricultural education. 150 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. thinning and resetting to a uniform distance of 1 foot in the rows, except on plots 1 "and 4, where a large number of the plants died soon after coming up. In harvesting, the heads of market size were cut from day to day. The total crop in pounds on the several plots was: Plot 0, 179^; Plot 1, 40; Plot 2, 194!; Plot 3, 220f; Plot 4, 135 ; Plot 5, 219 ; and Plot 6, 231i. The average yields, in pounds, produced by the different fertilizers were: — Manure alone (Plot 0, corrected for area), Manure and muriate of pot
. Annual report. Agricultural education. 150 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. thinning and resetting to a uniform distance of 1 foot in the rows, except on plots 1 "and 4, where a large number of the plants died soon after coming up. In harvesting, the heads of market size were cut from day to day. The total crop in pounds on the several plots was: Plot 0, 179^; Plot 1, 40; Plot 2, 194!; Plot 3, 220f; Plot 4, 135 ; Plot 5, 219 ; and Plot 6, 231i. The average yields, in pounds, produced by the different fertilizers were: — Manure alone (Plot 0, corrected for area), Manure and muriate of potash (plots 1, 2 and 3), Manure and sulphate of potash (plots 4, 5 and 6), Manure and sulphate of ammonia (plots 1 and 4), Manure and nitrate of soda (plots 2 and 5), . Manure and dried blood (plots 3 and 6), The manure alone gave, as will be seen, a larger yield than any of the plots to which fertilizers as well as manure were applied. The only point clearly indicated is the ap- parent highly injurious effect of the sulphate of ammonia, particularly where used with the muriate of potash. Dewing's Blood Turnip Beet. — Six rows of this crop, planted May 7, were grown in each plot. In plots 1 and 4 most of the plants soon became weak and sickly and many died, and there were not enough to restock to the uniform distance of 4 inches in the row, to which all the other plots were brought by thinning and resetting where needed. The few plants in plots 1 and 4 which survived until about July 1 then appeared to recover their vigor, and grew very rapidly. The yields of roots and tops were as shown below: — Tops (Pounds). Plot 0, Plot 1, Plot 2, Plot 3, Plot 4, Plot 5, Plot 6, 440 160 570 515 470 490 335. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Massachusetts Agric
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