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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Analyzing the results and assuming that a yield of ten bushels or 

 less per acre is a failure, the table does not show that the damage is 

 related to the time of planting, for there was one failure in the first, 

 one in the second and three in the third planting. Neither does it sliow 

 that old ground is accountable for it, even though the failures on such 

 ground were four times greater than on new ground. Nor does it sliow 

 that the damage is related to the question of variety, for there was 

 one failure with Kharkov,, two with Inter. No. G, two with Dawson, and 

 it is safe to assume that there would have been some with the other 

 two varieties had it been possible to make several plantings with each. 

 The same applies to the manner of planting and to the amount of seed 

 used per acre, for even though only two plots were drilled, there was 

 a failure with one, wliile the heavy seeding gave two failures, and two 

 plots of Dawson and one of Russian for which eight pecks of seed were 

 used gave a larger yield than the Dawson plot for which ten pecks were 

 used. 



During the fall of IDOG tlio most important of these experiments Avere 

 repeated, and five plots were found to lie affected more or less by yel- 

 low rust at the beginning of November. 



Field Peas in 190'). — While the vines of the larger varieties reached 

 tlie usual length of 10 feet or more, the dryer weather enabled them to 

 ripen better and the curing was correspondingly easier. During this, 

 the second test, French June, owing to the shorter vines, again leads 

 all others. Black English, a variety tested' for the first time, comes 

 next, is also next in l(Migth of vines, and will ])rove to be a valuable 

 variety for sto^k. While blossoming late, the pods ripen quickly, being 



