An average showed a gain of twenty-three and three fourths per cent. in favor of drilling, over the broadcasting. The average weight of straw from broadcasting was two hundred and seventeen bushels; from drilling, was two hundred and fifty-eight bushels.

The three bushels of seed made a gain of twenty per cent. in weight of grain over the two bushels, and sixteen and one half per cent over the one bushel of seed.

Planting Oats at Different Depths.

Rows six feet six inches long, seed three inches apart, or twenty-four in a row. The seed was dropped in water, and only those planted that seemed perfect. The soil was mellow and dry. The seed, (which was black oats,) planted April 27. The first row the grains were placed on the surface, with a very little earth thrown over them.

Year of trial.

Taking an average of these results, and we find a gain of only three and one half per cent. in favor of the rowed corn, (or one stalk to the hill,) over the hilled corn. We find, practically, that there are several reasons for preferring to drill the hills two and one half feet apart, and two stalks to the hill; but, of course, the thickness depends on the strength of the ground and its ability to sustain and perfect a large or small crop of corn. Planting Butt or End Grains of Corn for Seed.

An average of these results shows a gain of two per cent. in favor of the end grain. But perhaps the only practical deduction from this result is: That farmers need not fear the vitality or vigor of the small grains, the main difficulty being that the very small end grains do not drill satisfactorily when mixed with the larger ones.

A Synopsis of Results of some Experiments with Fertilizers.

We have made several thousands of experiments, during the past nine years, with the various commercial fertilizers, in use in our section, and although the results had an interest at that time, yet so little was known of the formula of their compounding, or of their constituent fertilizing ingredients, that but little important information can be derived from a study of their results.

In addition to this, many of these commercial compounds have gone entirely out of the market, and even if they had proved valuable, cannot now be obtained. We are now confining our experiments, with fertilizers, to such compounds or substances as are, in a measure, representatives of the three important fertilizing ingredients, to wit: Nitrogen, or ammonia, phosphoric acid, and potash. We have endeavored to compare the immediate and lasting effects of these different principles, and also their value, when furnished from different sources of supply, and in different combinations, as for instance, phosphoric acid, from ground bone and from the mineral phosphates; ammonia, from sulphate of ammonia and barn-yard manure, or from nitrate of soda, &c., &c. A study of the following tables will show the drift of our investigations in this line.

We will further premise, that we have endeavored to use these fertilizers, barn-yard manure included, in such quantities and such manners as farmers would be likely to use them in their every-day practice.

In the following table, the fertilizers were applied in quantities of equal values to sod ground, in the spring of 1874. These plots, containing one eighth acres, were then plowed and planted in corn. No further application was made up to this time, 1877, and the results of the succeeding year's crops are given in the annexed columns: