REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURIST. 



[The following is that portion of the report of Prof. Samuel Johnson to 

 the President of the State Board of Agriculture which related to the State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. — H. G. K., Sec'y.] 



***** iff e have sent out five bulletins from the agricultural 

 department of the Experiment Station during the year. 



No. 38. — Experiments with Varieties of Wheat and Amounts of Seed ; 

 Fertilizers for Meadow Lands. 



No. 41. — Warming Water for Dairy Cows. 



No. 44. — Feeding Steers of Different Breeds. 



No. 46. — Potatoes, Roots and Oats; Comparison of Varieties; Different 

 Amounts of Seed and Various Fertilizers. 



No. 47. — Silos and Ensilage; Seven Years' Experience at the College; 

 Views of Leading Farmers and Stockmen ; Ensilage vs. Dried Fodder and 

 Grain ; Test of Varieties of Ensilage Corn and Forage Plants. 



I take some pleasure in calling the attention of the readers of this report 

 to the live subjects discussed in these bulletins. The work of the depart- 

 ment will not suffer in this respect, at least, in comparison with others at 

 home or abroad. 



EXPERIMENTAL WORK. 



The Farm Department experiments have been fully reported in the 

 bulletins issued and through the agricultural press. 



The steers of different breeds, to which attention has been called in for- 

 mer reports, were shown at the State Fair at Jackson, the next week at the 

 West Michigan Fair at Grand Rapids and then at the Central Michigan at 

 Lansing. 



The full report of the final showing at the Fat Stock Show at Chicago 

 will be found in bulletin No. 44. The leading farm journals gave special 

 attention to this exhibit, the Rural New Yorker devoting an entire page to 

 photographs of the animals slaughtered and another to notes on the experi- 

 ment. The Country Gentleman said: " Decidedly the feature of the last 

 Chicago Fat Stock Show, so far as its educational and practical rather than its 

 sensational side is concerned." The Mark Lane Express, a leading English 

 agricultural newspaper, whose editor was present at the show, gave 

 considerable space to the report and reproduced the photographs of the 

 meat cuts from the different carcasses. 



The second lot of calves for a similar test was purchased during the 

 summer and fall of 1888 and is well under wav. 



