EXPERIMENT STATION REPORTS " 109 



Another plot was cut for hay, giving four crops in 1000, as follows: 



June 11 4,223 pounds cured hay jjer acre 



July 12 3,828 pounds cured hay per acre 



August 22 2,904 pounds cured hay per acre 



October 1 1,355 pounds cured bay per acre 



Total 12,310 pounds cured hay per acre 



This plot has produced this year, one crop cut June 15, amounting 

 to 4,265 pounds of cured hay to the acre, and at this writing, June 29, 

 the second growth is 12 inches high. 



For light, sandy soil, on which red clover furnishes but one cutting 

 iind the Eromus Inermis dries up entirely in the late summer, these 

 figures seem quite remarkable. Large areas are now devoted to this 

 crop and a portion this year will be allowed to grow to seed. 



In the spring of 1900 the department mailed 135 six-ounce packets of 

 sand lucerne seed to farmers in the State, whose addresses the writer 

 collected at farmers' institutes. Reports are now being received from 

 these farmers and the same will probably be compiled into bulletin 

 form during the coming fall. 



The Ciiriositi/ ^Strip. — This strip of one acre of the experimental ground 

 Tvas, before the college course was changed, putting the long vacation 

 in the summer, largely used as an experimental ground in the hands 

 of the agricultural students. With the change of the college course 

 and lack of suitable space for other experimental work, the original 

 object of the curiosity strip has been somewhat modified, yet it continues 

 to be the starting ground' of many new j)lants and prospective experi- 

 ments. The east end has been, in past years, occupied by perennials, 

 many of which have run out and become unattractive. The present year 

 this strip is planted to numerous new legumes, corn and legume com- 

 binations for forage. 



The Hessian Fly experiment with wheat, sugar beets from hom'e 

 grown seed, and new seeds and ])lants received from various sources in 

 quantities too small for field trials. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The Department takes i)leasure in acknowledging with thanks the 

 receii)t of the following articles, which have proven very beneficial in 

 our work: 



One ton of nitrate of soda from The rro])aganda for Nitrate of Soda, 

 New- York city; One ton German potash salts from the German Kali 

 Works, New York city. One ton acid phosi)hate from the Armour Fer- 

 tilizer Works, Chicago, 111. One subsoil ])low from B. F. Avery & Son, 

 Louisville, Kentucky. One Bacon drill from the Central Implement Co., 

 Lansing, Mich. 



During the past winter about nine weeks of ihe time of the Agri- 

 culturist was consumed in attending farmers' institutes. 



Respectfullv submitted. 



J." I). TOWAR. Atjriculturist. 

 Agricultural College, Mich. 

 June 30, 1901. 



