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Identifier: annualreport131415190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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there were occasional spots where the plants were fully twice aslarge as in other places. A careful examination showed that these seed-lings were thoroughly rooted into a bunch of muck, which was used infertilizing, but had not been properly worked into the bed. When thissoil test was started we used this fact as a base and made a bed fourfeet wide and twelve feet long, with absolutely pure muck to a depth ofone foot. This bed was sown in equal parts to white pine, Scotch pineand red spruce. Our seed beds were blocked in a rectangular form, six beds each way,making thirty-six beds. We began at one end and fertilized a row of sixbeds across with a very heavy coat of muck, applying at least six inches, allover the bed. To the second set of six beds was applied a medium coat ofmuck entirely over the bed, not less than three inches. The third row ofbeds was left as a check. The fourth row of beds was covered with threeinches of muck and well-rotted barn manure. The fifth row of beds had a
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w co & u < < COCO O l-H _1QW W CO O H CO < FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 151 three-inch coat of manure. The sixth and last row had an application offully five inches of well-rotted barn manure. These fertilizers were allworked into the-soil and thoroughly mixed, except for the first bed wherethe muck was applied one foot deep. The seeds sown in the spring of 1908have produced plants which are now equivalent to two-year-old seedlings.The results are as follows: Wherever muck was mixed with the soil, seedlings are smaller andhave a poorer color than on the check, except in the bed where muck wasused without soil, and here it compares favorably with the check. Themore manure that was used, the better the seedlings and the finer theircoloring. Muck and manure mixed did not produce as good seedlings aswhere the same quantity of manure was used alone. Where the bed wasmade with muck and no soil very favorable results were secured. Thisseries of beds had the fertilizer exp

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