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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Lathi/ruH sylvestris has beeu grown with fair success at the station 

 for several years, but it has been found by feeding tests that both 

 sheep and cows show a decided distaste for the forage. Sheep con- 

 fined upon pasture composed principally of the plant lost weight, and 

 cows fed in the stable lost in Aveiglit and in production of milk and of 

 butter fat when either the green or ensiled forage was fed as part 

 of the ration. 



Six varieties of wheat were selected in the fall of 1894 as most pro- 

 ductive of the varieties grown at the station in previous years. These 

 were planted on acre plats of "fairly uniform" soil and on smaller plats 

 of nuick soil; and were compared with Dawson Golden Chait from 

 Ontario, and Ourrell from Kansas. Tlie Dawson Golden Chaff was 

 grown on an 8-acre tract adjacent to the first series of plats. This 

 variety proved most productive on both soils at the station and upon 

 farms of nearly all of 17 cooperative experimenters reporting; but "it 

 is almost or (juite universally infected with stinking smut." 



A study of a rotation for dairy farms {JS^ew Jersey iStas. Rpt. 1895, 

 lip. 116-118). — Previous work in this line was reported in the Annual 

 Report of the station for 1891 (E. S. E., 7, p. 080). The rotation con- 

 sisted of (1) field corn, seeded to crimson clover in July or August; (2) 

 crimson clover followed by fodder corn, and the land seeded to rye; (3) 

 rye fodder, followed by oats and peas, seeded to red clover and timo- 

 thy; and (4) hay. 



The yields and comjiosition (food and fertilizer constituents) of the 

 third-year crops, grown without manure, on an acre plat are given. Tlie 

 amounts of food materials obtained and fertility removed are shown in 

 the following table: 



Food malerialit productd and fertility remored during the first three years of rotation . 



"The above tabulation of the amounts of fertilizing constituents 

 added and removed thus far in the experiment shows that more phos- 

 phoric acid has been added than removed, while the amounts of nitro- 

 gen and potash removed were much greater than the amounts added." 



Canadian cereals at the World's Columbian Exposition, F. T. Shutt (Canada 

 Exptl. Farms Kpt. 1S95, pp. ^^6-55^).— Analyses (food constituents) are ««-iveu of 

 Canadian grown grain as follows: 49 samples of wheat, 12 of oats, 20 of barley, and 

 3 of buckwheat. 



