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greatest yield; while that which was cultivated shallow at 'first and 

 deeper as the season passed by produced a lighter yield by fully one 

 ton per acre. 



Sorghum for Fodder. 



Eighteen varieties of sorghum were grown in the experimental 

 grounds in 1904. These included different varieties of sugar cane, 

 broom corn, kaffir corn, millo maize, etc. The greatest yields in the 

 past season were produced by the following varieties : Orange Sugar 

 Cane, 20.5 tons; Earliest Black Sugar Cane, 18.8 tons ; Kenney's Im- 

 proved Amber Sugar Cane, 18. i tons; Folger Cane, 16.3 tons; and 

 Early Minnesota Sugar Cane, 15.4 tons per acre. The greatest yields 

 of heads in 1904 were produced by the Australian Broom Corn, 1.7 

 tons; California Golden Broom Corn, 1.6 tons; Dwarf Broom Corn, 1.6 

 tons ; and Kenney^s Improved Amber Sugar Cane, 1.5 tons per acre. In 

 the average of eleven varieties grown for six years in succession, the 

 highest yields of total crop per acre were produced by the Early Min- 

 nesota Sugar Cane, 16.6 tons; Orange Sugar Cane, 16.4 tons; Fodder 

 Cane, 13.5 tons; Early Amber Sugar Cane, 13.3 tons; and Kaffir Corn, 

 1 1.2 tons per acre. 



Sunflowers for Fodder. 



As considerable has been said regarding the practice of growing 

 sunflowers and using the heads for cutting with corn for the silo, and 

 as some farmers are growing sunflowers for this purpose, experiments 

 have been conducted with several varieties within the past ten or 

 twelve years in order to glean fuller information regarding the com- 

 parative value of the different varieties. Two varieties have now been 

 under uniform tests for ten years in succession and have produced the 

 following averages in tons of whole crop and of heads per acre : Black 

 Giant, 19.8 and 5.8; and Mammoth Russian, 16. i and 5.4, respectively. 

 The White Beauty, which has been grown for seven years in succes- 

 sion, has produced an average of 16 tons of total crop and 5.8 tons of 

 heads per acre. The results for 1904 were very high, showing a record 

 for the Black Giant of 31.9 tons of total crop and 8.5 tons of heads 

 per acre. 



Millet for Green Fodder and for Hay 



Twenty-five varieties of millet were grown in the Experimental 

 Department in 1904, and determinations were made regarding the 

 relative yields of green fodder and of hay. The results show us that 

 the greatest yields of green crop were produced by the Japanese Pani- 

 cle, 12.2 tons; East India Pearl, 10.7 tons; Early Harvest, 9.3 tons; 

 Steel Trust, 9.2 tons ; and Japanese Barnyard, 8.4 tons per acre. In 

 comparison with these, the Hungarian Grass produced 8.2 tons of 



