426 T\vE:NTY-EiGHTir Annual Report 



DNSILAGK CROI'S 



All of the fifteen acres devoted to annual crops was seeded to 

 corn early in July of this year with the exception of a half acre 

 which was planted to peanuts, one and a half acres on which fete- 

 rita was sown, and two acres seeded to milo. The yields of corn 

 varied from approximately three tons of green fodder per acre to 

 nearly fifteen. The low yields were obtained upon plots seriously 

 affected with alkali. Average corn yields of all plots were live and 

 one-seventh tons of green fodder per acre. 



in addition to the green fodder obtained approximately one 

 ton of seed corn was selected from a plot which yielded about 

 seventy bushels of mature corn per acre. Feterita yielded a little 

 more than six tons of green fodder per acre and milo approximately 

 five tons. 



PEANUTS 



Peanuts were not tried out in an extensive Avay. Red Spanish 

 and Virginia were the two varieties planted and the results indi- 

 cated that this crop is well adapted to our soil and climatic con- 

 ditions. 



MISCF.LLAXEOl'S 



Circumstances have made it advisable to confine attention to 

 the more immediately practicable features of agronomic experi- 

 mental work rather than to the more technical operations which 

 have a somewhat indirect application to commercial farming. The 

 work has been hindered by an insufficient departmental force, 

 Professor John F. Nicholson having left the service of the F,xperi- 

 ment Station \n February, 1917, and Dr. Wallace Macfarlaue, w^ho 

 began his duties as Agronomist early in September, having been 

 called into military service after a stay of about two weeks. This 

 has left the Assistant Agronomist to take care of the entire work 

 throughout most of the past year. 



H. C. TlEARn. 

 Assistant Agronomist. 



