FIELD CROPS, 



863 



The yields of a number of t^uiiinier-growing forage crops on a dark ni)land prairie 

 soil, all planted in drills about May 1 and giving good stands, except the teosinte, are 

 shown in tlie following table: 



Yields of various forage jdnntx jicr acre. 



Crop. 



Amber sorghum, first t-ntting: 



Amber sorglium, second cutting. 



Amber sorghum, total 



Orange sorghum, first cutting . . . 

 Orange sorghum, second cutting 



Orange sorglium, total 



White Kalir corn 



Red Kafir corn 



Pearl or Cattail mUlet 



Welborn corn (for grain) stover . 



Teosinte 



German millet 



Yellow soy beans 



W'hij>iioorwill cowpeas 



Wonderful cowpeas 



Ne^v Era cowpeas 



Date of 

 each cut- 

 ting. 



Aug. 11 

 Oct. 12 



Aug. 17 

 Oct. 26 



Sept. 8 

 ...do... 

 Aug. 17 

 Oct. 4 

 Aug. 27 

 Aug. 6 

 Sept. 8 

 Aug. 27 

 Sept. 19 

 Aug. 27 



(ireen for- 

 age per 



Lbs. 

 27, 040 

 15,648 

 42, 688 

 34, 606 

 14, 080 

 48, 736 

 19, 712 

 17, .'>52 

 17, 216 



6,888 



6,464 



27, 136 



11,088 



15, 872 



7,872 



Weight of 

 hay per 



acre when 

 stored. 



Lbs. 



20, 640 



8,256 



28, 896 



23, 360 



8,832 



32,292 



11,584 



13, 728 



8,640 



1,680 



3,200 



4,032 



13,568 



4,672 



7,456 



2,976 



Yield of 

 hay calcu- 

 lati'd as 40 

 per ci'Ut 

 of green 

 weight. 



Lbs. 



10, 816 

 6, 259 



17, 075 



13, 862 

 5, 63-.J 



19, 494 

 7, 885 

 8, 721 

 6,886 



2, 355 

 2, 155 

 9,405 

 3,696 

 5, 291 

 2,624 



On dark pelil)ly land which had produced a crop of poor wheat, a mixture of 8 

 pecks of Andjer sorghum and 5 pecks of cowpeas sown broadcast yielded 5,760 lbs. of 

 hay per acre, the weight l^eing taken after 8 days of curing. In this same series 

 of plats Mexican June corn yielded 2,288 lbs. of stover and 19.25 bu. of corn, but this 

 crop occupied the land until October while the other crops occupied it only for 67' 

 days. 



In a test of crops suitable for hog feeding, Welborn corn yielded 21.1, yellow soy 

 beans 34.1, Spanish peanuts 58.3, Virginia peanuts 116.5, and sweet potatoes 64.3 bu. 

 per acre. In the same experiment 800 lbs. of sunflower seed were obtained per acre. 

 A plat of late sorghum without fertilizer produced 11,200 lbs. of green forage, while 

 another plat receiving 70 lbs. of nitrate of soda per acre yielded 18,272 lbs. Seed of 

 the Newman bean, obtained from this Department and sown March 28, gave a yield 

 of 20,398 lbs. of green crop or 8,158 lbs. of cured material by September 8. In 

 addition to the different crops mentioned melilotus, hairy vetch, and Dwarf Essex 

 rape were grown and produced good yields. 



The hay meado'w Avith special reference to culture and irrigation, W. 

 Ql'itzow {Inauij. Dt.s.s., Ver. Fricdrichs-Univ. Halle- Wittenberg, 1902, pp. fi9, map 1) . — 

 A discussion of this subject with reference to conditions around Seehausen. 



The work of the Community Demonstration Farm at Terrell, Texas, S. A. 

 KxAi'i' (V. S. Dept. Agr., Ihtrrau of Pknit Iitdnstrg Bvl. .~)1, pf. J, pp. <s'). — A brief 

 account of a demonstration experiment on a farm which had been in corn and cotton 

 continuously for 28 years, and was in an impoverished c(jndition. Thorough {>repa- 

 ration and cultivation were given, and complete fertilizers containing admixtures of 

 cotton-seed meal were applied freely. Corn and <;otton were the crops grown. As 

 a result of the demonstration, the farm manager announced at the end of the season 

 that "he had cleared $700 more than would have been made under the ordinary 

 methods of farming employed in that section." 



Experiments with cotton and corn in 1903, J. F. Dug(;.vr and J. M. Riciieson 

 (Alabama Cancbrake tSta. Bui. .U, pp. 20). — In the culture tests reported with cotton. 



