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Huii^'arian gi-ass was sown each time ihc millets were, and gave the same quantity 

 per acre, but was hardly so far advanced when cut. Tares, sown on 29th April and 

 cut on 24th July gave If tons per acre ; sown on 17th May and cut on 9th August 

 returned 2 tons per acre. Hay very poor, only suitable for green fodder. 



CORN. 



Corn was sown and planted for fodder on 23rd and 26th May. That portion 

 sown was put in with seed drill by closing up all but four spouts of the drill. The 

 drills were 24 inches apart for the corn sown, and 30 inches where planted. 



The most vigorous sorts had attained a height of 5 feet when overtaken by frost 

 on 21st August and all growth stopped. As soon after the frost as possible two- 

 thirds of all the corn was cut and shocked up and the remainder left for ten days. 

 The portion uncut was considerably more withered or di-ied up than that cut on the 

 morning of the frost. The corn was left in the field in shocks until the ground became 

 frozen, then drawn into the barn and is now being cut with the cutting-box and fed 

 to the cattle, which devour it very readily. In earliness Mitchell's Early, Early 

 Cory and Early Adams are ahead of the rest. In quantity of fodder, Golden Dent, 

 Grolden Beauty, Blunt's Prolific, Thoroughbred White Flint,Che8ter County Mammoth, 

 and Queen of the Prairie rank first. Cinquantine or fifty day corn, though not so 

 high as these, was better suckered and further advanced and may prove a better corn 

 for fodder than any. 



The following are the varieties tested and the condition they were in when over- 

 taken by frost : — 



Corn, 1890. 



Land. 



Fallow . . 



F;ill ploughing. 

 Fiillow ........ 



Fall ploughing 



Fallow 



Fall ploughing. 



Fallow 



Fall ploughing 



Cinquantine 



Ex. Earlj' Adams 



Ex. Early Cory 



Mitchell's Early 



Perry's Hybrid 



Minnesota .Sweet 



Early Concord 



Narraganset 



Crosby's Early 



Blunt's Prolific 



Virginia Horse Tooth . . . 



Golden Dent 



do Beauty 



Queen of the Prairie 



Longfellow 



Thoroughbred Wh. Flint 



Pee & Kay 



Chester Co. Mammoch . . 



King Philip 



Stowell's lOvergreen 



Amber Cream 



Early Minnesota 



Learning Yellow 



Sugar 



Long White Flint 



Fallow and Fall Plouyhimj Test. 



Queen of Prairie 



do 



Thoroughbred Wh. Fh. 

 do 



Golden Beauty 



do 



Virginia Horse Tooth . 

 do 



3 fi 



4 



9 

 

 

 2 



.". 



4 (i 



4 (i 



3 



In tass-.el. 



Fully tasseled. In silk. 



Tasseled. In silk. 



do do 



Commencing to tassel. 



do 

 No sign of tassel. 

 Tasseled. No silk. 

 Commencing to tassel. 

 Strong growth. No tassel. 



No tassel. ,, — — -^^^ 



Strong growth. No tassel, 

 do do . 



do do 



Late. No tassel. 



do Good growth. No tasseL 

 Fully tasseled out. 

 Late. No tassel. 



do do 



do do 



Partially tasseled. 

 Barely tasseled. 

 Late. Not tasseled. 

 Fully tas.seled out. 

 Late. No sign of tassel. 



Strong growth. 



Weak 



Strong 



Weak 



strong- 

 Fair 

 Late 

 Very weak 



do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



No tassel, 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



