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I _ Clover,. Alfalfa and Soy Bea/ns. 49 _ V   l
s ‘   ing any cron., That lime is not needed on our experimenatl plots ` S
D is shown by Table 6. V I, ‘ , / »' ·
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[_   l .Tests and Experiments. ‘ _  
·'  S The tests and experiments recorded below will show something * V ifi;
Y i of the relative value of leguminous forage plants commonly grown.    
t  ( The results obtainedffroni all of them in 1905 are exceptionally I .  
Y g  good, those from alfalfa quite remarkable. While such yields cannot  
,  be obtained everyyear, the results show that alfalfa when well  
G   looked after on good soil may prove a more valuable plant than  
,_  ·` red clover. _ 4 · l » ·  
g j Table 1 gives the yields from alfalfa plots (1-80-acre) for  
_ ,  three years. Seed was sown in drills at the rate of twenty pounds ( N  
i I   per acre. The plots are on good land that- was originally a gar· i  
S   den, when it probably receiveda good deal of manure. Since the  
t  ‘ Station has owned the land it has/not been fertilized in any way. .  
S   Table 2 gives results fromv some plantings, also of 1—80—acre,  
 . made in March, 1905. We have never before secured so much for-  
 · age from alfalfa the first year, andit is to be attributed to the  
- f  season, and not to any treatment these plots received. It is hardly  
e,   necessary to point out that the untreated plots did rather better  
gl  ¥ than the treated ones. Plot 51 in which were plants from seeds  
1   ( treated with only the chemicals of a commercial dry culture from  
1  Z the company at West Chester, Pennsylvania, gave a smaller yield  
[   than plot No. 49 from seed treated with the complete culture. Yet  
t gl  this was probably accidental, since in the same test made on soy  ‘ *j
-  _ V beans (Table 3) the plot treated only with chemicals gave the larger ,  J
`  Q yield of the two. . I 
  Table 3, showing the results of tests of cultures on soy beans, \§ ,Q
 ~ gives the same general result as Table 2, the untreated plots, 41, 43,  
_   and 56 averaging 4.66 tons of hay to the acre, while the plots, 40  
1   T and 55, treated with bacteria average only 4.23 tons.  
s  ' Table 4, representing tests of cultures on·red clover, tells about  
i E the same story as Tables 2 and 3, the plot (36) treated with a  
1  ` ( complete dry culture yielding 1.92 tons as against 1.95 tons yielded  
3  · by the check plot beside it. The plot (No. 38) treated with the  
-  >, chemicals only of a dry culture yielded a small fraction more than  
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