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beets and mangels were planted without previously soaking the seed, and in neither 

 case was a stand secured, while a perfect stand resulted from old sugar-l)eet seed 

 soaked oxer 24 hours before planting. The seed was planted April 16 and the beets, 

 yielding at the rate of 9.81 tons j)er acre, were harvested the last week in Noveuiher. 



In lilOl IMammoth Long Red and (Jolden Tankard mangels and White Iniproved 

 sugar l)eets gave a good average yield. The next year the varieties and yields were 

 as follows: ^lamnioth Long Red 17.5 tons, White Kleinwanzlebener 14.1 tons and 

 (iolden Tankard lo.o tons per acre. Freezing of the soil on December 15 injured the 

 Mannnoth Long Red mangels, which grow largely above the surface, while it did 

 but li :tle damage to the White Kleinwanzlebener, which seemed to be protected by a 

 very heavy top and by a deeper growth. The following yields were obtained in 190;^: 

 Golden Tankard, lo tons, and AVhite Klemwanzlebener 7.27 tons. Long Red mangel, 

 7.2 tons })er acre. The treatment of these root crops under experiment is described 

 an<l general directions are given for the culture of sugar l)eets and mangels in 

 Oklahoma. 



Kafir corn from 1900 to 1903, inclusive, on heavy upland soil produced on an aver- 

 age for the 4 years on manureil ground 51 per cent more stover and 19.7 per cent more 

 grain, and on unmanured ground 59.2 per cent more stover and 48.5 per cent more 

 grain than corn. Samples of Kafir corn and corn stover from the crop of 1902 con- 

 tained 75.80 and 80.22 per cent of dry matter, respectively. The culture and uses of 

 Kafir corn are discussed. 



In 1900 Texas Red oats drilled March 2 at the rate of 3.2 bu. per acre and har- 

 vested June 16, yielded at the rate of 72 bu. of grain and 2.19 tons of straw per acre. 

 The following year this same variety on 2 manured and 2 unmanured ]ilats produced 

 on an average 54.5 bu. of grain and 1.24 tons of straw and 28.6 Ini. of grain and 0.54 

 tons of straw per acre, respectively. Lincoln, Culberson, and Texas Red, compared 

 in 1902, yielded 57.5, 46.4, and 45.3 bu. of grain and 1.29, 1.03, and 1.13 tons of straw 

 per acre, respectively. Texas Red has in general given the best results. In 1903 oats 

 in rotation jiroduced a larger yield of straw, but 1.48 bu. of grain per acre less on 

 plats manured for cotton the year before than on unmanured plats. 



In addition to these tests experiments on the time of seeding and the preparation 

 of the seed bed were carried on. The seedings were made March 17-20, March 28-31, 

 and April 7-9. The early seeding gave the lowest yield of straw and the highest 

 yield of grain and also the heaviest weight of grain per bushel. In early seeding 

 plowing gave larger yields of grain than plats receiving surface cultivation only by 

 disking. With the later seedings the reverse was the case, l)ut the yield of straw 

 was larger on the plowed plats. The more luxuriantly growing crop on the plowed 

 plats seemed the most subject to rust. 



Results obtained in 1903 from trial plats of grain, fodder corn, field roots, 

 and potatoes, W. .S.\uxuek.s {Canada Cent. Ext. Farm Bui. 44, pp- <>-^)- — Tliis bul- 

 letin is the customary annual report of cooperative variety tests now in progress for 

 9 years at the Canada Experimental Farms (E. S. R., 14, p. 751). The yields of the 

 different crops at the several farms are given in tables. The varieties producing the 

 largest crops in 1903, taking the average results obtained on all the experimental 

 farms and giving them in the order of their produirtiveness, were as follows: 



0«^s■. — Abundance, White (Tiant, AVide Awake, Sensation, Danish Island, Uncoln, 

 Banner, (iolden Tartarian, Waverly, Thousand Dollar, Imi^roved Ligowo, and Twen- 

 tieth CA'ntury. Average yield per acre, 90 bu. 30 lbs. Two-rowed barley. — Invinci- 

 ble, French Chevalier, Canadian Thorpe, Standwell, Beaver, and Danish Chevalier. 

 Average yield per acre, 53 bu. 46 lbs. Six-rowed barley. — Manshury, Brome, Odessa, 

 Trooper, Oderbruch, and Nugent. Average yield per acre, 60 bu. 35 lbs. Spring 

 wheat. — Advance, Roumanian, Wellman Fife, Byron, Monarch, Preston, WhiteConnell, 

 White Fife, Goose, Chester, Crawford, and Clyde. Average yield peracre, 33 ])u. 18 lbs. 

 Pean. — English (Jrey, Macoun, Early Britain, Archer, Crown, Alma, German White, 

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