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Bulletin 267. 



Seeding experiment 



The object of this experiment is four- fold: 



1. A comparison of home grown and commercial seed. 



2. A test of the relative efficiency of the grain drill for sowing 

 mangel seed as compared with the hand drill. 



3. The most economical amount of seed to use. 



4. The use of buckwheat to indicate the location of the rows before 

 the mangels have come up, thus permitting an earlier cultivation. 



The variety used for these tests was the Long Red. The seed was 



sown May 21 in the manner and at the rates indicated in Table I, 



following : 



TABLE I 



Showing Yield per Acre, Per Cent of Dry Matter, Total Yield of Dry 

 Matter, Number of Plants per Acre, and Yield of Tops 



It will be seen that the crop-producing power of the soil varies some- 

 what in different parts of the field as is shown by the yields of the check 

 plats, hence it is evident that part of the observed differences on the 

 plats receiving different treatment are due to variation in soil. The 



