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plots while in the milk stage and hastening their ripening. All the plots were 

 heavy in straw excepting those of the last seeding. 



TEST OJ" VARIETIES ALL SOWN SAME DATE, ONE-TENTH ACRE PLOTS. 



Sixteen varieties were sown in this test. The soil was sandy loam uniform in 

 character and had been fallowed the preceding year. Two bushels of seed per 

 acre was sown by drill. In earliness the six- rowed matured in from 6 to 11 days 

 less time than the two-rowed. All sorts produced a good crop of straw, some very 

 heavy and all stood up well. 



TEST OF BROADCAST, PRESS DRILL AND ORDINARY DRILL. 



In this test California Prolific was used. The soil, was a heavy clay loam which 

 was fallowed the preceding year, and the seed was sown at the rate of two bushels 

 per acre. 



That put in by the Press-drill gave seven bushels more than that sown 

 by the common drill, and 9 bushels and 28 pounds more than the plot sown 



