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more per acre than spring-plowed land. The best quality of wheat was produced on 

 the spring-disked ground. A tesl of sowing rape and wheal for fall pasture resulted 

 in a little larger yield from the mixture. The rape made but a slight growth after 

 the wheat was nan ested until frost. 



Of 35 varieties of oats, l , S. No. 5168 led In yield per acre with 75.4 bu., being 

 followed by Sensation with 70 bu. The side oats required the longest period for 

 maturing and were less affected by rusl than the branching varieties. This season 

 the earliest maturing variety gave the largesl j iejd, bul in general the late-maturing 

 sm-ts produced uniformly larger yields than the earl) varieties. The largesl average 

 yield "it record at the station, 74.3 bu. per acre, was produced by U. >. No. 5168, 

 which has heei i grow n for 3 successive years. 



Twenty-four varieties of barley were tested, and of these 5 were new additions 

 coming from this Department. The barley plats were very little affected by nist, 

 while the adjacent "at and wheat plats on similar soil were badly affected by it. 

 The best \ ields this season were obtained from Highland Chief and ( Ihevalier, while 

 for the last i! seasons Highland Chief and Success stood first in average production. 



Thirty-two samples of flax were grown, including 20 varieties furnished by this 

 Department. The best yield for the season, 24.2 bu. per acre, was obtained from 

 l'. s. No. 10014. Of the varieties grown hn- a series of years, Seleci Russian stands 

 Bret with an average yield of l'»» bu. for 3 years. The fiber varieties gave -null 

 yields in comparison with the seed strains, and were not profitable for seed produc- 

 tion alone. 



In 1904 North Dakota emmer yielded 46 bu., and a variety from this Department 

 62.9 bu. per acre, the bushel being calculated at 4<i lbs. The average -rain produc- 

 tion of different crops for 6 and 7 years was as follows: Emmer, 2,096 lbs.; barley, 

 2,025; oats, l\ !•.">.*>; wheat, 1,733; and durum wheat 1,883 lbs. per acre. 



Notes are also given on experiments with buckwheat, millet, corn, potatoes, and 

 pea>. Buckwheat ha- not generally given good crops at the station. In Beed pro- 

 duction the millet varieties were a complete failure in l'.Mi4. Of the different varie- 

 ties of corn grown the following, in the order given, st I first in the proportion of 



ripe ears produced or in the degree of ripeness attained: Wills Dakota, Genu, North 

 Dakota No. I (a variety bred up from Minnesota King), Northwestern dent. Golden 

 dent. Bloody Butcher, and Longfellow. Corn planted in drills 30 in. apart produced 

 the tallest plants, measuring 5 ft. 9 in. Corn sown in ordinary wheat drills •'» in. 

 apart and thick in the row reached a height of only .'! ft. 



The yield of air-dry fodder, in 7 years' experiments, was greatest from planting in 

 6-in. drills. Corn planted in hills in rows 22 in. apart gave much better results than 

 corn in rows 42 in. apart. The test of planting corn at different distances in the 

 drill, the width between the drill being uniformly 3| ft., showed that nearly :;4 bu. 

 of ear corn was obtained with the plants at 6-in. intervals in the row. and that the 

 yield gradually decreased as the intervals between the plants increased. The results 

 of a tot of planting corn in hills -how that where 6 stalks were grown in a hill a 

 higher yield of both ears and fodder was obtained during 5 years than from thinner 

 plantings. 



'Ida- percentage of ripe corn in the lasl 2 seasons was regularly reduced when more 

 than 2 stalks were grown per hill. It was also noticed that the cars were shortened 

 as the thickness in the hill increased, the variation in length being from 4 j to <>', in. 

 T!i' r. ~ult> from 4 years" work in planting corn in drill rows on different dates show- 

 that plantings made May L':; and .'111 in 6-in. drills reached the silking Btage, while in 

 the later plantings no ears were formed. Planting in 42-in. drills gave much the 

 same comparative results as those obtained in 6-in. drills, but there was a greater 



difference in the degree of maturity of the early and late-sown plat-. 



The results of different methods of cultivation tried this year were in favor of '.riv- 

 ing shallow cnltivation early and deep cultivation late in the season. The average 

 for .'i year- shows the greatest yield of fodder from shallow cultivation. 



