EXPERIMENT STATION UErORTS. 201 



AI-FALFA BREEDING NURSERY. 



This nui-.sciv was scl- out in .Imii' 1018. It coiitaiiis over S,OOU iiidivuliuU 

 ])laiits from which iiKHvidual hay and seed yields arc obtained. Plants 

 that produce seed are tagged, hung up to dr}^, weighed, and threshed 

 individually. The seed is placcul in individual envelopes in order that 

 individual seed records may be obtained, and to provide seed of those se- 

 lected as mothers of the next generation. Non-seed producers are simply 

 weighed and recorded. Threshing the seed, calculating the yields for hay 

 and seed is done during the winter. The better producing plants from the 

 highest yielding strains are then selected, and the selected seed sown 

 about the first of May and the plants set oul in the new rnu'sery in .June 

 1920. • 



BARLEY TESTING. 



There are forty plats in the larger barley series, each 420 feet long 

 and a series of thirty-one smaller plats including those that have come 

 recently from the plant-row and centgener series. In the spring of 1920, 

 these two series wall normally be united into one large series. 



BARLEY NURSERY. 



There are 75 centgeners in the 1919 series belonging to the third filial 

 generation from crosses. 



BARLEY INCREASES. 



The Mich-2-row and the Black Barbless barleys arc being increased. 

 This increase contains fifty-five rate of seeding plats including the ^icces- 

 sary edges and checks. Theie are over two acres i3lanted to ]\Iich-2-row 

 for increase. 



BEAN VARIETIES. 



There are one hundred ten plats in the 1919 varietal series. These 

 are mostly strains that have successfully passed the plant-row series. 

 Some of them are farmer's varieties which have been highly recommended. 



BEAN NURSERY. 



This nursery includes 161 centgeners originating from crosses made 

 by Mr. G. W. Putnam during the winter of 191G-'17 and are in the third 

 filial generation. 



BEAN -PLANT ROWS. 



In the fall of 1918 over three hundred plant selections were made from 

 the fields of thirty farmers widely distributed over the State. The purpose 

 was to obtain new and more valuable varieties. Three hundred plant-rows 

 were planted from these beans in 1919. 



BROOM CORN. 



The high price of broom material tku'ing the war aroused some interest 

 concerning the possibilit}' of growing })room corn successfully in Michigan. 



