| Show val valuable liable results the ox P r ti with indian corn at imp farm aa as ao fal reported show lat t how buch such a work ought to be commenced the generah uniformity of the soil proved by tx and by raising crow without manure the land ia is accurately cura tely laid off into fifth acra plots two rods vide avide under drained cd by a tile drain through the cent center c r of cadi each and accessible at the lower end for exam examination of the drainage waters ad how iio it should be conducted so that all the plots and all parts of cadi each plot should be subjected to the same influences plowed at ht the same taille time harrowed at the same time planted the same day tilled at the same time and so on to the harvastin harvesting t and storing plan being to subject each plot toi to precisely all alio same influences from first to last ad they shiow incidentally a remark remarkable ablo effect of drainage noted below they confirm the views filat 11 at lit fil in regard to the relations of barrin ba inyard ard manure ro t to soils and crops h depend not so much upon ita chemical constituents as upon its physical properties and the relations lations ic of the tile soil to moisture and they indicate that the lic best result results to be gained from commercial fertilizers will be in connection with aith ban lyard manure I etli at it I n clearly shown that manures mar r affect F the amount of moisture found in ill the grain as bar vested and that tb the weight ot the bushel of the same kind of corn does not depend altogether upon its dryness as usually all y supposed eup posed but in a me measure aure upon op its compactness compact which i is influx fenced diced byrhe relations of thel poil to moisture and manures the curvous canous cevelo ment of fertility ay drainage alluded to occurred iu in this way some years agh ago a portion of the ground now occupied acu bied b by y the esperitu exper experimental itu plots was used to contest commercial fer for Aili no enrco of these fertilizers was observed upon the crops of 1878 when they applied nor in 1879 but in tile drains were ivere put in a marked effect was visible which was also noticeable in ill the crops of 1881 this clearly in m dic atef cither either that by means of the drainage the roots of ibe plants were uble to penetrate deeper into the flip soil and so bad elc ele meals of fertility which cfall tunk beyond their reach or that the soil wil through the effect of drainage was able to draw up moisture with alf ate cr r firtl fertility I lily it might hold in solution from a lower depth than before or both of those e causes might night have contributed to the increased crops crop vcr ahli arca Atner ican arl gea am |
