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Storrs School Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Connected ivith Storrs Agricultural School. 

 Location, Storrs. Director, W. O. Atwater, Ph. D. 



BULLETIN No. 3, FEBRUARY, 1889. 



This bulletin was included in the Annual Eeport of the Station for 

 1888, a digest of which was published in Experiment Station Bulletin 

 No. 2, of this office. The topics are : 



EOOTS OF PLANTS AS MANURE (pp. 1-7). 



Ohservations on the roots of grass, clover, etc. 

 Weight of roots and stubble in one acre. 

 Fertilizing materials in roots. 



METEOROLoai(!AL OBSERVATIONS (p. 8). — A suiumarj of observa- 

 tions for October, November, and December, 1888. 



DAKOTA. 



Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Department of Dakota Agricultural College. 

 Location, Brookings. Director, Lewis McLoutb, Ph. D. 



BULLETIN No. 9, JANUARY, 1889. 



Experiments with corn, Luther Foster, M. Sc. (pp. 1-8).* 



The corn experiments embraced a set of 39 plats, each containing 60 rows, 24 hills 

 in length. Thirty-three of these plats were planted with different varieties of corn, 

 18 of dent and Id of flint, the rest being used for experiments in deep and shallow 

 cultivation. * ^ * The early part of the season was not favorable for corn-grow- 

 ing, being cold and wet. * * * The stand in general was poor, resulting in part 

 from unfavorable weather and bad seed, but principally from the work of ground- 

 squirrels. * * * It was observed in all the plats that the earlier plantings grew 

 larger and stronger than the after ones, and that the silks and tassels made their ap- 

 pearance more regularly. 



The results of a single season's work are only entitled to the public attention as 

 phowing the scope of the experiment undertaken. 



Definite results of any practical value to the farmer can only be obtained by a con- 

 tinuance of the same experiment, under a system of careful observations, extending 

 through a number of years. Of this a beginning has been made. 



Details of the results are given in tabular form. 



Deep and shallow cultivation of corn (p. 8). — The deep cultivation was 



* These experiments are in a line indicated by the director at the time of the organ- 

 ization of the Station in a communication which was printed in the Report of the 

 Committee on Station Work of the Association of American Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations, published by the Commissioner of Agriculture in the spring of 1888. The 

 communication contained the following: 



Corn. — To plant a plat of all the quick-growing varieties of corn we can find every 

 day through May, and keep record of date, cultivation, the reaching of several stages 

 of its growth, and of its maturity, for the purpose of helping to settle the question of 

 corn culture for southern Dakota, the corn season, and the kinds to plant. Wheat 

 and flax have been nearly all the crops grown heretofore until last season, when 

 much corn was planted and maturtd. 



