Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1880 [PAGE 114]

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112 Soil No. 1 was collected on a plat of virgin prairie adjoining the University farm. Its depth was one foot. This soil was gathered in three different parts of the field, the portions intermediately mixed and the sample obtained from the mixture. Soil No. 2 was gathered on the University farm adjoining the prairie plat. It had been in cultivation 30 years, mostly in corn. The ground had never been manured. The depth of the soil was 7 inches. It was obtained from three portions of the field. Soil No. 3 was the sub-soil of No. 2. Its depth was 10 inches. Composition of soils from the University Farm.

Soil. Organic m a t t e r Silicic acid SesQuioxide of iron Manganese P h o s p h a t e of lime C a r b o n a t e of lime " of M a g n e s i a Potash Soda S u l p h u r i c acid Soluble m a t t e r found Organic m a t t e r Silicic acid A l u m i n a w i t h t r a c e of iron Lime Magn esia Potash Soda Manganese.. P h o s p h o r i c acid I n s o l u b l e m a t t e r formed No. 1. 1.9414 0.0798 1.8367 1.4775 0.1798 0.1683 0.3835 0.5244 0.0733 0.0177 0.1403 4.U56 72.1765 12.7143 0.5729 0.4893 3.0041 0.5120 0.0093 0.1933 6.8327 No. 2. 2.4880 0.0617 1.4517 0.5700 0.2200 0.2103 0.5845 0.6757 0.0785 0.0211 0.1519 6.0700 68.7127 12.0520 0.7721 0.4831 3.0331 0.6344 0.0847 0.1553 7.5134 No. 3. 3.7551 0.0975 1.2650 1.7150 0.1152 1.2515 0.7140 0.0505 0.0970 0.2137 8.9549 68.0224 9.3156 0.6444 0.4836 2.4561 0.5664 0.2628 9.2745

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CHEMICAL ANALYSES OF, AND PEACTICAL EXPEEIMENTS WITH, SOEGHUM CANE, GEOWN ON THE UNIVEESITY FAEM.

BY H. A. WEBER, P H . D . , AND M. A. SCOVELL, M.S.

The following data in regard to the planting and cultivation of the cane were furnished by G. E . Morrow, Professor of Agriculture: "Two varieties, Orange and Early Amber; seed obtained from Hedges, St. Louis; planted by hand, May 14, 1880. "The Orange was planted in a plotof nearly one acre (.955) in 24 rows four feet apart, in hills about four feet in row. "The Early Amber was planted in a plot of one and one-half acres (1.48) in 40 rows three and one-half feet apart, and with hills about same distance apart.