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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



ure plats of: Jst, Bennett wheat. This is a red, bearded winter wheat, from 

 West Virginia. It lias stiff straw, ripens with Fultz, yields well, and is said 

 to produce excellent flour. It seems a very desirable variety. 2d, rice wheat. 

 Another red variety from Maryland. Straw short, heads small, and did not 

 prove satisfactory. 3d, Washington glass. A smooth, white vvinter wheat, 

 from Cumberland Co., Penn. A strong grower, hardy, and yields well. I 

 think this may prove a good variety for us. 4th, Wysor wheat. A smooth, 

 red, winter variety, from Virginia. We think this one of the best varieties 

 sown. 



All of the varieties named have been sown in larger plats this season, and 

 we can speak more positively of their value for Michigan after another year's 

 trial. 



The yield of wheat in 1881 was light, as will be seen by reference to the 

 cropping list for that year. This year, 1883, from the forty-two acres grown 

 on the College farm, the yield was 1,475 bushels, a little more than thirty-five 

 bu-hels to the acre. This was mostly Clawsou — some four acres of Shumaker 

 and one of Scott excepted. This year we have sown, aside from the experi- 

 mental wheats, which embrace three acres, eight acres with Centennial Club, 

 fifteen acres of Clavvson, and four acres of Egyptian White Chaff. 



EUSSIAN OATS. 



Two acres of this variety were sown in our experimental grounds. The 

 yield was 121 bushels. Tlie yield of ten acres of the common white oat in 

 same field was 612 bushels. The straw of the Russian oat is much coarser than 

 that of the common white oat, and will not be so desirable for fodder; they 

 were lodged quite as badly as the others; they weigh no heavier to the meas- 

 ured bushel, and judging from this one trial I should pronounce them not as 

 desirable as the common oat. 



CROPPING LIST, 1881. 



Crop. 



Corn, roots, 

 ami pot a- 

 toes 



Wheat, hay 

 anil pasture. 



) Wheat 

 I hay. - 



Hay 



Pasture 



Hay 



OaLS 



Corn 



Pasture. 

 Pasture. 

 Pasture. 

 Uav 



and 



Wheat 



Quantity. 



1 1,262.24 bu. turnips, ) 

 < 358.9 bu. corn, 97.6 I 

 I bu. potatoes ) 



2 1 tons hay, 110 

 bu wheat, 5 tons 



straw 



7.65 tons hay, 200 

 wheat, 12 tons 



aw 



31.22 tons hay 



1 7.65 

 ■{ bu. 

 ( sira 



49.(19 tons hav 



20 tuim siraw,'l,200 bu. 

 t59 23 bu 



10.62 tons. 



3 tons straw, 75 bu-. 



Cost. 



S3 17 37 



62 93 



137 89 

 41 44 



57 21 

 109 71 

 247 06 



16 53 

 140 72 



Bate per 

 Acre. 



?22 67 



3 31 



6 73 



1 49 



2 46 



4 64 



11 14 



1 65 

 10 05 



Bemarks. 



[■ A large item in cost is "] 

 J the manure applied, i 

 1 Ten acres <levoted to I 

 ( experimental crops. J 



I Wheat badly winter ) 

 } killed. \ 



Some portions of this ) 

 field very good, but > 

 many bare places. ) 



Only portions of this 

 worth 



I uniy p 

 \ lield 

 ( cuttln 



were 



