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drive^ are the varieties planted last year and this. Here part of the 

 variety tests are carried on and the effects of irrigating in this dry season 

 are very much in evidence. 



Next on the right, beyond the hedge, is a plot of peas illustrating in a 

 very forcible manner the beneficent effects of the irrigation. East of the 

 peas, the early potatoes also show that part of them have been irrigated. 



On the left of the drive the plot of tomatoes shows varietal ditTerences 

 and at the same time serves for a test of the value of irrigation. One row 

 receives no water from the irrigating plant, the next is watered at the 

 surface, the third receives the water through tile laid immediately below 

 the surface, while the last row is irrigated through tile buried one foot 

 deep. 



Still further to the left along the highway north of the tomatoes is a 

 varietal test of cabbage, cauliflower, and sweet corn, and a field of pota- 

 toes testing varieties and various new methods of planting and culti- 

 vating. 



The old apple orchard immediately in front was planted in 1858. The 

 west half in sod, the east half cultivated. Part of the trees are manured 

 with stable manure, the remainder with various mixtures of mineral fer- 

 tilizers. 



Passing through the orchard, turning south on the drive, you come to 

 twelve acres of tree fruits, raspberries, and grapes planted since 1890. 

 This fruit garden is maintained for testing the varieties of fruits and the 

 various methods of pruning and training. 



Here are 3-50 varieties of apple, 100 varieties each of pear, grape, and 

 peach, and 50 varieties each of plum and cherry. 



As you entered the grounds at the college an orchard lay to your left, 

 back of the president's house, containing a collection of pears, plums, and 

 cherries, and a vineyard of Concord grapes. 



Near the hospital are the Russian cherries and plums and the native 

 plums and peaches. 



Leaving now the orchards and gardens of the horticultural depart- 

 ment, you enter the roadway leading for more than a mile due south 

 through the center of the farm. The fields on either side are numbered 

 consecutively, the odd numbers on the east and the even numbers on the 

 west side of the lane. 



The first field south of the horticultural orchards, and east of the large 

 grain barn, is devoted to numerous plots of wheat and oats upon which 

 are being tested various remedies for smut and rust. Here are also small 

 plots of beans, rye, millet, and a collection of varieties of oat, a series of 

 twelve plots of red clover, one sown in each month of the year. About 

 two and one half acres are devoted to the new forage plant, Lathyrus 

 sitvestris. 



Next south comes the "curiosity strip," a half acre containing interest- 

 ing, new and useful agricultural plants, hops, hemp, broom corn, sorghum, 

 spurry, peanuts, legumes in variety, and other forage plants. 



Thv3 next series of plots, now sown to oats, is provided with a separate 

 drain for each tenth acre. The drain is so arranged that the drainage 

 water can be collected for measurement and analysis. 



Along the river bank is a series of half-acre plots of grasses of different 

 species or varieties. 



