DIVISION OF FORAGE PLANTS 635 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Though the ground was well freed from weeds, and hand hoed, not a blade could be 

 seen. The seed had been broadcasted, covered with a rake, ?nd the soil compacted 

 with a light roller. 



BROOM CORN. 



Two varieties of Broom corn, Tennessee Evergreen and Austrian Hundred Bays, 

 were sown on June 21. This was about three weeks too late, but the continuous rains 

 which lasted until the 15th kept back seeding operations. The drought which after- 

 wards followed, and only ended at the beginning of August, delayed germination, so 

 that none of the plants headed. The rows were three feet apart, and the seed was sown 

 with a hand ' Blanet Jr.' When the plants were about three inches high, they were 

 thinned out to about three inches in the rows. Both varieties were cut on October 2, 

 after they had been touched by frost. 



