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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 ROOTS. 



Name. 



White Belgian 



Short Horn 



Danver 



Giant Long Green Top 



Altringham 



Long Yellow Belgian 



Orchendorf 



Obendorf 



Long Yellow Mangel 



Golden Tankard 



Norbiton Giant 



Lane's Improved Sugar 



Red Globe 



Vilmorin's Improved White 

 Mammoth Golden 



American Ruta Baga 



Bloomdale Sweede 



White Russian 



Yellow Sweede 



Skirvings 



Yield per Acre in Tons. 



Below is a table giving yields, etc., of various varieties of corn grown 

 for ensilage. We fail, as do others, to secure the best ensilage from the 

 large watery sorts destitute of ears: 



CORN FOR ENSILAGE. 



The table explains itself. It will be seen that ears are not in inverse 

 proportion to yield, and that the smaller sorts may be as productive as the 

 larger. 



The within is a partial report of experiments in progress when the 

 department came into my charge. Many of them will be continued 

 further. 



Publication has been delayed owing to the desire to carry the potato 

 experiment through the winter. The details have been mainly in the 

 hands of Messrs. Burnett and Holden, to whom proper credit is due. 



Eugene Davenport, 



Agriculturist 

 Agricultural College, Mich.. 

 March 29, 1890. 



