Circular No. 217
May, 1939

Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station Lafayette, Indiana
SAND EXPERIMENT FIELD
Conducted by Department of Agronomy A. T. Wiancko, Chief G. P. Walker, Associate in Soils Charles Warran, Local Superintendent
REPORT OF PROGRESS, 1924-1938
How to Treat This Kind of Land
Apply two tons or more of ground limestone per acre to make alfalfa successful. No cropping system is effective on this nitrogen deficient sandy soil without alfalfa, clover or sweet clover.
Adopt a regular cropping system with one of these legumes appearing at least every third year. A good rotation for this land is corn, soybeans, rye or wheat, alfalfa (two or more years). Potatoes make a good cash crop in place of part of the corn acreage following alfalfa.
Alfalfa does best seeded in July or early August on a well-packed spring plowed seedbed.
Apply manure as a winter dressing on wheat, on alfalfa sod for potatoes, and the rest for corn.
Fertilize wheat with 200 pounds per acre of 3-12-12 fertilizer in fall. If not manured, broadcast 100 pounds per acre of a quick, all nitrogen fertilizer in April.
Fertilize corn with 100 pounds per acre of 0-12-12 and potatoes with 300 to 500 pounds of 3-12-12 all in the row.
Seed rye and inoculated winter vetch grown on permanent seed plot for cover crop in the corn and on any unoccupied land in early fall.
The Sand Experiment Field of 40 acres is located 5 miles southwest of Culver on the Monterey Road on Plainfield fine sand soil. This land and equipment were purchased by subscription and given to the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station in 1923 for the establishment of a permanent experiment field.