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BULLETIN NO. %.
Agricultural Experiment Station.


The West Virginia Agricultural
Experiment Station ia now distri.
buting Bulletin No. 2S, prepared by
Col. D. d. Johnson, Agriculturist
Of the Station, showing the results
of .Plat Experiments with CONNER
tial Fertilizers on Corn for theyea
1891 These experiments show some
facts of great importance to the
farmers of West Virginia.
To enable him to successly main
tain himself in his struggle to"make
a living the farmer realizes that lie
must not only preserve but increase
the productive powers of his farm.
He must not only be careful that his
lands are not impoverished, but that
they are made more fertile year by
year, and this must be done in such
a manner that the outlay will not
exceet the income, One of the means
adopted by many farmers of our
State, to secure an increase in the
fertility of their soils, is the use OF
Commercial Fertilizers. Inthe pur-
chase ofthese supplies, he frequently
spends large sums of money for fer
tilizers which have no beneficial eff
feet whatever upon the soil, or the
crops which heproposes toraise, and
in that case his money and labor are
both lost. If his soil is already fully
supplied with Nitrogen in the availa
bic condition, then to apply addi-
tional heterogeneous, fertilizer to that
soil, is a complete waste of material,
or If lie desires to produce a crop Of
clover or of other plants which draw
their supply of nitrogen from the
atmosphere even if the soil was def
cient in Nitrogen, it would be folly
to apply heterogeneous fertilizers to
the soil for these crops, as could not
use them, and before any subsequent
crop could be grown, the Nitrogen
would be washed out of the soil by
the rains.
The experiments shown in Bull
letin No. % were made far the pur-
pose of determining what kind of
Commercial Fertilizers we're best
adopted to increase the productive
ness OF the various soils ofour State.
The results show that upon certain
soils; one or more kinds of CONNER
cial fertilizers produce no material
beneficial results, while upon other
soils, very decided beneficial effect
is produced. How shall farmer
determine what kind of fertilizers he
needs2 In this bulletin is table
showing the chemical analysis of the
several soils upon which these ex-
periments we're made, BUTT isshown
from actual experiment on these
same soils that the chemical analy-
sis furnishes no safe criterion for our
guidance, and that the farmer must
make his own experiments upon his
own soil, and the better plan would
be to begin on small scale, and when
he has determined what his land
needs, he can very profitably enlarge
his operations. The experiments
made at the Station are very valua-
Bile to the farmer, as they indicate
the kind Of fertilizers which are
adopted to the different kinds of
soil, and furnish the farmer with q
method by which he can carry on
his own experiments.
These bulletins ara sent free to all
persons in the State requesting them.