The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-01-16

On series Of plots Number | various
grasses of promise with their appropri-
ate legume plants have been sown in
the following order:
Plot 1. Bluegrass.
f:at 2 Meadow fercue( English blue
grass.
Plot 8. Italian rye.
Plot 4. Red top.
Plot 5. Timothy.
Plot 6. Orchard grass.
Plot 7. Tall meadow Dat grass.
Plot 5. Blue grass and white clover.
Plot 9. Red top and aisike clover.
Plot 10. Tall oat grass and common
red clover.
Plot II. Timothy and mammoth
clover.
Plot II. Timothy and Hairy vetch.
Plot 1S. Blue grass. red top and tall
oats. (Permanent pasture)
Plot IA. Tall oats and sweet clover.
One-half Of each will have an appli-
cation OF nitrate Of soda in the spring.
The purpose is to determine the COM
paratiye value Of these grasses for the
so-called gray soils.
Series III is combined test OF depth
of plowing with Spalding plow, subsoil
pillow and common plow, along with a
comparison Of winter cover crops. Three
strips twenty feet wide extending the
length Of the field were accurately meas
ured and plowed with the three imple-
ments. Then in equal areas perpen-
dicular to these strips the following soil
Improvement crops were sown to be
turned under in the spring for corn to
be determined by weight which has
given the greatest improvement.
The order is as follows:
Plot /. Alfalfa.
Plot 2. Sweet clover.
i Plot 3. {No CROP.
Plot A. Red clover.
Plot 5. Crimson clover.
Plot 6. Alsike clover.
Plot Z. Barley and red clover.
Plot s.. Rye and crimson clover.
Plot o. Wheat and vetch.
Continuing in this series are five
other plots representing fye-year rota-
ton, showing the effect Of the three
methods Of plowing on each crop in
the rotation:
Plot 10. Corn Gin spring..
Plot II. Wheat and yetch (under for
beans)
Plot 12. Wheat (harvested).
Plot 1S. Tall oat grass and clover.
(hay).
Plot IA. Tall oat grass and clover.
(pasturt).
Series III is a combined test Of fertil-
izer on wheat, accompanied by a rota-
ton
Plot /. Rock phosphate.
Plot 2. Muriate Of potash.
Plot 8. Nitrate Of soda.
Plot A. Acid phosphate.
Plot 5. No fertilizer.
Plot 6. Nitrate Of soda and acid
Plot Z. Nitrate ofssoda and muriate
Of potash.
Plot s. Nitrate Of soda, muriate Of
potash and acid phosphate.
Plot 3. Rock phosphate.
Plot 10. No fertilizer.
Continuing in this series is a six-year
rotation especially adapted to intensive
hog pastures:
Plot IL. Corn and beans (n spring..
Plot II. Rye lunder for beans).
Plot Is. Red clover and Culberson
bats.
Plot IA. Corn Gin spring..
Plot 15. Barley harvested and sown
70 beans).
Plot 16. Rye apd crimson clover.
One-half of each plot has been lined
two tons crushed limestone per acre)
d determine not only its effect upon
wheat but also crops Of rotation. Fer
iIizer has buen applied in each case at
be following rate:
Rock phosphate. 1000 lbs. per acre.
Acid phosphate, $50 lbs. per acre.
Nitrate Of potash, SO lbs. per acre.
Nitrate Of soda. SO lbs. per acre.
On Plots 10 and 10 comparisons win
,e gotten Of the yield Of wheat and bar
ey. On Plots II and u the effect Of
oy beans planted with corn on the total
held will be available. The variety Of
wheat used ii this series is Poole, which
las proven to be superior at the West
tennessee Station. Fl
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