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Show DISCOVER NEW LEGUME EFFECTS Experiments Made With Timothy and Oats in Connection With Legume Crop at Cornell. It is well known that a leguminous crop, when vigorous and abundant, exercises ex-ercises a beneficial influence on the soil and on succeeding crops. That a legume may benefit a nonlegume growing grow-ing with it, by causing the nonlegumo to contain a large quantity of nitrogen or protein, seems never to have been ascertained. Experiments have, therefore, been conducted with timothy growing with alfalfa, timothy growing with red clover and oats growing with peas by Profs. T. L. Lyon and G. A. Bizzell, of Cornell experiment station at Ithaca, N. Y., to determine what effects were produced. These show that the timothy tim-othy and the oats contain more protein pro-tein when grown with the legume than when grown alone. The increased protein contents of the hay crop thus produced is a matter of considerable practical importance. It indicates, moreover, that the nonlegume receives during the growth of the legume a larger supply of available nitrogen than if grown alone. Other conclusions conclu-sions drawn from the experiments are reported in bulletin No. 294, which details de-tails the work done. |