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EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



The higher yields obtained in variety tests are indicated in the following 

 table : 



Summary of the more notaNe yields secured in variety tests. 



Crop and variety. 



Barley (Mandsch- 



euri) 



Barley (Imported 



No. 5591 Iowa).. 

 Barley (Guy Mayle) 

 Oats (Daubeney) . . 

 Wheat (Dawson 



Golden Chafif).... 

 Wheat (Carleton).. 

 Wheat ( Roumania ) 

 Wheat (Wild 



Goose) 



Emmer (common) . 

 Spelt (Alstroum)... 



Rye(Petkus) 



Buckwheat (Rve).. 



Field Peas (Early 

 Britain) 



Flax (Manitoba)... 



Millet (Siberian)... 



Sunflowers (Mam- 

 moth Russian)... 



Number 

 of va- 

 rieties 

 tested. 



Period 

 of te.st. 



Yrs. 



Average 



yield 

 per acre. 



Bu. 



76.60 



64.39 



45.94 



54.10 

 32.44 

 33.35 



37.50 



Lbs. 

 2,872 

 2,115 



Bu. 

 30.00 

 31.00 



36.93 

 17.55 

 51.80 



76.61 



Crop and variety. 



Broom corn (Early 

 Japanese) 



Corn (Early Cali- 

 fornia Jlint) 



Potatoes (Davies 

 Warrior) 



Mangels (Giant 

 Eckendorf) 



Sugar beets (Ren- 

 nie Jumbo) 



Swedes (Keepwell) . 



Carrots (Steele Im- 

 proved Short 

 White) 



Fodder corn 

 (Eureka) 



Sorghum (Orange 

 sugarcane) 



Millet (Japanese 

 Panicle) 



Cabbage (World 

 Beater). ..• 



Timothy (Pasture). 



Average 



yield 

 peracce. 



Bu. 

 22.40 



59.70 



239.40 

 Tons. 

 30.68 



24.80 

 20.02 



28.00 



24.68 



18.26 



4.10 



30.60 

 1.63 



[Forage and cover crops], F. C. Minkler {New Jersey Stas. Rpt. 1910, pp. 

 51-57). — Good results are reported from the use of oat and pea forage run 

 through the ensilage cutter in a slightly wilted condition and placed in the 

 silo. In this way silage in prime condition was provided for dairy cows during 

 the entire summer season and the milk flow was maintained during the period 

 of hot weather and the lacli of green forage. 



A total of 98 tons, or an average of 5.9 tons per acre, was secured from 

 16i acres of alfalfa at the station. A new seeding of 10 acres yielded 30.425 

 tons of cured hay mowed May 30. The manner of making this seeding on 

 August 24 of the preceding year is described in detail. 



The yield of 9 tons of forage is reported from an acre of ground seeded in 

 September, 1909, with 50 lbs. of rye and 20 lbs. of vetch drilled in rows 8 in. 

 apart. The yield of hay from 9 acres of oats and peas was approximately 

 3 tons per acre, and fertilizer tests continued in this connection confirmed 

 previous results, showing that basic slag supplies phosphoric acid more 

 economically than ground bone and acid phosphate. The use of different 

 cover crop mixtures, the principal one consisting of 40 lbs. of wheat and 25 lbs. 

 of winter vetch per acre, seeded just prior to the last cultivation of corn 

 during the latter part of July, is reported. 



The seed-corn situation, C. P. Hartley (U. 8. Dept. Agr., Bur. Plant Indus. 

 Circ. 95, pp. 13, figs. 2). — The general seed-corn situation in the spring of 1912 

 is reviewed and means of preventing such situations are suggested. 



Results secured in 2 series of 5-year tests made by the OfBce of Corn Inves- 

 tigations and 28 experiment stations for the purix>se of observing the value of 

 home-grown seed showed that a variety stood high or low in rank according to 

 its adaptation or lack of adaptation to the locality in which the test was made. 

 In one particular instance, a variety native of Sabina, Ohio, was taken 50 miles 

 north and grown for 5 years at Sunbury in that State. Equivalent lots of 

 Sabina-grown seed and Sunbury -grown seed were then tested at both points. 



