Show SIMPLE experiments flory 11 OIT ranner can fiut obtain considerable A ml information the observing obad barnier may nilly learn much that is valuable by by experimenting in fit a small way with different dil Terent methods of his fields lie lils the coni common oll dilli difficulty culty is that lie he applies tile particular treatment to tile the whole field not for an ind d leaving iriving a portion lie he guesses liesse at it the result instead of weighing C and we would not hot ask ili him ni to be laboriously accurate but a reasonable amount of care may inay bu be taken suppose for example c that lie ho wishes to ascertain the comparative I 1 advantages vantages iti of two or three lif ferent modes of planting or raising corn ill alie number of stalks to till the ill hill what I 1 variety ll 11 is mot most productive lie may adopt two in modes otles either of which will require little or of no additional labor anti and at the hie aline time t give him valuable information the simplest mode will be when clil ceitlin ting lip the crop to make several sl iola of each kind or with each mode of 0 culture all having c the same number or hills and then thell in ill huskin buskin to obtain ili jalio lie adew C o product of each J by trying c in this way the average e product of balf eilf 1 n I io do zon zen shocks of each any material advantage n e of either will be at once discovered the growled knowledge c thus ob limy be worth hundreds of dol hars eventual eventually Y in cultivating cultivation r fie fields dds of forty or fifty acres for a succession of years another and perhaps a more accurate mode will be to plant the different ent kinds or to apply the different crant movies modes in strips running across the field and each just wide enough for i yow row of shocks when huskin husking count the number of bushels in parallel rows of equal len lenth length C th anti and the coin comparative para tive merits of each will be learned thi moda will ile be less liable to error th ill n in the first mentioned mode because till parallel strips of lind land embrace alike the richer and poorer portions of the field while single squares may vary materially in the quality of the soil in ili testing different varieties of tin ill potato single parallel rows of equal length may be measure measured tl in fit their icv sc cal products where ill the object alone bonc is to determine the comparative merit meril of varieties but in ascertaining 1 ali lav effects of fertilizers the should extend to several rows becak r tho the fibrous roots always running running c several foot feet horizontally would feed oll the in manure inure in the next row if single singe I 1 rows retreated we in la determining the comparative rei re i s suits fi from dif different L c t ent e experiments x with sowed bowed gafill grain or in ill tile treatment of meadows inea dows measured strips of equal length should extend across the field anti and each sort hort be kept separate until threshed or weighed experiments with each sort requiring more care and labor than with hill or drill cult ure experiments as these performed with a reasonable aino tint pi of care will give a far more reliable accurate and valuable knoules knowledge c than such us as may be acquit acquitted acquited ed by bymers work plans for such experiments may be laid before tile busy season of spring 0 opens country gentleman |