DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



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Cutting and planting... 

 Putting on Paris green 

 Cultivating 



Digging and sorting... 



Total 



193 



$15 44 



The work was all done by students, and as will be seen at a cost of about 

 5 cts. per bushel for all the labor employed. This does not include the cost 

 of employing a horse for cultivation. 



EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE THE VITALITY AND GROWTH OF WHEAT, CORN, 

 AND OATS, WHEN SOWED .IT DIFFERENT DEPTHS. 



The grains were sowed in rows six feet long and eighteen inches apart. Two 

 feet of each row was devoted to oats, one foot to corn, and the remaining 

 three feet to wheat. Twelve rows were sowed — the depth of soil covering the 

 seeds in various rows varying from one-half inch in No. 1, to eight inches in 

 No. 12. The experiment was not as accurate as could have been wished, 

 owing to the heavy rains which occurred shortly after and during the time of 

 planting, and washed the ground somewhat. 



The results of the experiment are embodied in the following table: 



3 



i 



5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 

 11 

 12 



°.c 



~ bo 



c. a 



M 

 1 



1^ 



l?i 

 2 



3 



3^ 

 4 

 5 

 6 



8 



No. OF Seeds 

 Planted. 



Wheat. 



50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 



Corn. 



10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 



Oats. 



40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 



a bo 



June 4 



4 

 4 

 4 



4 

 4 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 7 

 7 

 7 



No. OF Seeds 

 Germinating. 



Wheat. Corn. Oats. 



45 



41 



41 



25 



24 



30 



31 



22 



22 



9 



4 







10 

 9 

 9 



7 

 7 

 10 

 5 

 8 

 9 

 9 

 7 

 8 



37 

 31 

 25 

 24 

 27 

 31 

 30 

 27 

 18 

 13 

 6 

 



Date of appearance 



OF Sprouts at 

 Surface of Ground. 



Wheat. Corn 



June 7 



7 



8 



9 



9 



9 



10 



11 



12 



June 7 

 9 

 9 

 10 

 11 

 11 

 13 

 13 

 13 



Oats, 



June 7 



9 



9 



9 



9 



9 



11 



11 



12 



Per C't of Seeds 

 germinating. 



In closing this report I desire to express my obligations to those who have 

 assisted me in the work of the department. The rapidly increasing value of 

 our herds demands the unremitting attention of careful and considerate men 

 who have learned the practical part of breeding and feeding stock. It is a 

 field that gives ample scope for the exercise of no mean abilities and the most 

 conscientious fidelity in the discharge of duties imposed. 



To the State Board of Agriculture, whose members have evinced their deep 

 interest in the department and who have cheerfully made such provision that 

 I have been enabled to develop and strengthen it in various ways, I am under 

 renewed obligations. All of which is respectfully submitted. 



SAMUEL JOHNSON, 

 Prof, of AgricuUiire and Siqit. of the Farm. 

 Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich., October 15, 1883. 

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