EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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Varieties. 



Dakota 



Race Horse 



Northwestern... 

 American Pride. 

 Rustler 



Thoroughbred . . 



Giant 



Longfellow 



Golden Superb.. 

 Sixty Day 



Triumph 



Tom Thumb 



Tatoocd Yankee 

 Yard Long 



Style. 



Yellow Dent 



u 



White Dent 

 Yellow Flint 



Pop corn . . . 

 Y'ellow Dent 



Planted. 



J\me 1 . 

 " 4. 

 " 2 



" 5. 

 May 30. 



" 30. 

 June 4. 



" 2. 



2.. 

 6.. 

 5.. 

 5.. 



Tasseled. 



Aug. 9 



""'"io 



" 23 



" 21 



" 22 



" 25 



" 10 



" 28 



" 11 



" 10 



" 20 



" 7 



" 26 



Height 



in 

 feet. 



7 



7i 



7i 



7 



9 



8i 

 7 

 

 6i 



7 



5i 



6 



7 



Condition at close of season. 



Glazed. Many ears well dented. 

 Not full grown. No tassels. 

 A few cars well glazed. 

 Very few in silks Not full grown 

 A few silked out. Not full grown. 



A few in silk. Not full grown. 



A few beginning to silk. Not ful grown . 



A few e.ars beginning to glaze. 



A few silked out. Not full grown. 



.\ few ears beginning to glaze. 



All silked out. None started to glaze. 

 A few silked out. 



All silked out and a few ears well glazed. 

 None silked out. Not full grown. 



FORAGE CROPS. 



Though outdoor curnig was at times a difficult task, the cool and wet weather 

 was highly beneficial to the rapid growth of all forage crops. Several of the 

 grasses planted in 1902 gave two crops as did the clovers, while alfalfa gave its 

 usual three crops. Several small plots of pasture grasses were planted during 

 May of the present. season, and even two of these yielded two crops as shown in 

 the following table. Owing to the stony and poor condition of the brome grass 

 plot, only one crop was removed, the second crop which averaged 15 inches high 

 by the middle of September, being left as a mulch. The plot marked Sand 

 Lucerne in the table, and planted in May, turned out to be a plot of alfalfa. 

 Evidently the seed is scarcer or higher priced than the ordinary alfalfa seed. 

 Between Giant Incarnate and the ordinary crimson clover no difference could 

 t)e observed except in the higher price of the seed for the Incarnate variety. One 

 plot of Berseem or Egyptian clover was planted in May and what there was 

 of it was cut July 21 when begining to blossom. Less than one-fifth, however, 

 was clover, over one-half being the branching wild mustard and one-third being 

 a collection of other noxious weeds. As a digression, if it may be considered 

 such, it may be stated that the station is not alone in being imposed upon with 

 spurious seeds, chess (Bromus secalinus) and other weeds having been sent to 

 the station for identification during the season, the farmers stating them to 

 have been introduced with the high priced seeds. To sell common seeds under 

 high sounding names and at fancy prices, or to sell weed seeds should be con- 

 sidered at least as illegitimate as selling oleo for butter or sawdust for bran. 

 Until proper legislation is enacted it will seem incongruous to punish the farmer 

 for not exterminating weeds, the seeds of which he may have innocently purchased 

 at fancy prices. This is particularly felt in a new region like this, where most 

 •of the common weeds are as yet scarce and can be made to remain so without 

 imposing any hardship upon anybody. 



