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FODDER TEST.S. 



Five mixtui-es of grain were sown on fallow, 6tli April. Five mixtures and rye 

 alone were sown on stubble land on 16th and 18th April. Three of those sown on 

 fallow were destroyed, and re-sown Ist June. The yield of cured hay in each case 

 is given. 



Result of sowin^r on fallow ; seed drilled in. 



Result of sowing on fall ploughing, spring ploughing (gang ploughed), and on 



stubble randled in. 



Fodder. 



Wheat and oats, fall ploughed . 

 do spring do 

 do randled 



Sown. 



Came up. 



April IS., 

 do 18.. 

 do 18.. 



May 1. 

 do 1. 

 do 1. 



Remarks. 



Yield, 4,700 lbs. per acre, 

 do 6,200 do 



do 6,000 do 



Result of sowing on spring ploughing; stubble land; stubble burned; seed gang- 



plo 



ughed in. 



Fodder. 



Oats and rye , 



Wheat a-iid oats 



Pease and oats . . 



Rye and barley 



Rye, wheat and oats, 

 Rye 



Sown. 



April 16. 

 do 16. 

 do IS. 

 do 18. 

 do 16 

 do 18. 



Remarks. 



Yield, 6,900 lbs. per acre, 

 do 7,200 do 



do 7,000 do 



do 5.200 do 



do 5,640 do 



do 4,830 do 



Results of Millets and Rape sown on fallow; cut and put in silo green. 



FODDER CORN. 



Thirty-one varieties of corn were sown by drill in rows of 3 feet apart for fodder. 

 The land was fallowed the year before, and in good condition. All the sorts came 

 up well, except Dakota Gold Coin, the seed of which was bad. When about 

 G inches high, cold, wet weather set in and the plants continued to make slow pro- 



