EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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Varieties. 



Tall Meadow Oat Grass 



Timothy 



Orchard Grass 



Red Ton 



Kentucky Blue Grass 



Slender AVheat Grass 



Meadow Fescue 



Mixed Grasses (Timothy and Red Clover) .. . 



Mixed Grasses (Red Top and .Msike Clover). 



Hungarian Millet 



Peas and Oats 



Wheat and Vetch 



Size of 



plots 



in rods. 



1x6 

 1x0 

 1x6 

 1x6 

 1x6 

 1x6 

 ix6 



4J acres 



J acre 

 1x6 rods 

 1-10 acre 

 1-10 acre 



When 

 planted. 



Time of 

 harvesting. 



Mav, 1903 



Mav. 1902 



Mav, 1902 



Mav, 1902 



Ma\-, 1903 



Mav, 1903 



Mav, 1903 



j.Julv, 1903... \ 

 IMav, 1904... / 



July, 1903 



May 31 



May 8 



May 8 



.July 9 



July 9 



July 5 



July 10 



July 5 



July 10 



.July 5 



July 10-12 



July 16.. 

 Aug. 25. . 

 July 31.. 

 .A.ug. 2.. 



Yield 

 of each 

 cutting. 



Lbs. 



Total 

 yield . 

 of plots. 



Lis. 



129 

 96 

 66 

 93 

 102 

 156 

 93 



12,510 



2,484 

 324 

 467 

 519 



129 

 96 

 66 

 93 

 102 

 156 

 93 



12,510 



2,484 

 324 

 467 

 519 



Yield 

 per acre. 



Lbs. 



3,440 

 2,560 

 1,760 

 2,480 

 2,720 

 4,160 

 4,9o0 



2,780 



3,312 

 8,640 

 4,670 

 5,190 



POTATOES AND ROOT CROPS IN 19C5. 



for two 



south 



large 



from 



year. 



The varieties of potatoes are those which have been tested 

 years or more and they were planted upon the highest ground 

 of the creek while expecting that the draining of this 

 area would be completed before any damage would result 

 its wet condition to which attention had been called each 

 As stated elsewhere, this drainage was not continued, and to this 

 is due the total failure of some varieties and the large proportion 

 of unmerchantable potatoes of all others. The ten varieties at the bot- 

 tom of the following table were planted on the south portion of the 

 plots where the ground is from one to two feet lower. Adjoining these 

 on equally low ground were planted duplicate plots of Sir Walter 

 Raleigh and nine other of such varieties as have usually given profitable 

 yields, these additional ten varieties occupying each one row 670 feet 

 long. The results from these duplicate plots are not given in the fol- 

 lowing table, for beginning with the forepart of September until the 



the 



water 



end of the season, the_ water stood two to six inches deep upon these 

 "and a large portion of the adjoining plots, and as a consequence the 

 failure was. complete. The more favorable results from the northern 

 or dryer portion of the plots, merely indicate that this soil is well 

 adapted to potatoes whenever it may be put into such reasonably dry 

 condition which every potato grower knows to be indispensable. 

 The yields of the plots are shown in the following table : 



