. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Field Experiments with Fertilizers. 331 better to use large applications rather than small ones in order to make the results of the experiment more marked. With the cultivated fields of this State in their present condition, with their present amounts of humus and with their present texture, it will not pay, as a general thing, to use large applications of fer- tilizers, because moderate amounts are usually sufficient to make the available plant-food con
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Field Experiments with Fertilizers. 331 better to use large applications rather than small ones in order to make the results of the experiment more marked. With the cultivated fields of this State in their present condition, with their present amounts of humus and with their present texture, it will not pay, as a general thing, to use large applications of fer- tilizers, because moderate amounts are usually sufficient to make the available plant-food conditions as good or better than other essential conditions of the soil. Just as soon as plant-food conditions are better than other essential conditions the plant will not be able to get the beneiit of this extra food, and more or less may be 63.—Jf/*. M(bie, of Spenc^er, iV! F., hnrveMing and loeighing ea'perimental plats of potatoes. Interest in the experimental work and its value.— In most cases the farmers were very much interested and painstaking with the work. Oftentimes the experimenters said that the work was being watched by neiglibors, for they wanted to " see whether there is anything in it or ; Mr. Wills C. Hatch, of Skaneateles, N. Y., wrote as follows: " Below you will find the results of my third experiment with fer- tilizers on potatoes under your supervision. Each year's experi- ments gave practically the same results, proving to me beyond doubt what I had before believed, that the soil on my farm did not need the addition of either potash or nitrogen, or, in other words, it would not pay me to use them. I am now using plain phosphate alone on all my crops and am getting better results than with the mixed goods. This will save me from fifty to one hundred dollars a year in tlie cost of purchased fertilizers, and with better Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
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