~ Report or Farm SuPERINTENDENT OF EXPERIMENT Station. 353 
_ The following articles have been prepared for this'report as part 
_ of the general outside work on the plats, farm and in the stable: 
Grasses and forage crops. 
_. Peas best for forage. 
On raising scrub stock. 
Comparison of roots and silage. 
Variety test of wheat. 
Potato experiments, 1890. 
After effect of fertilizers in field G, 1889. 
Report on lysimeters for 1889. 
Meteorology for 1890. 
Food fed dairy animals. 
GRASSES AND FORAGE CROPS. 
The small plats of grass have been kept practically as in 1889. 
They are valuable as an object lesson for all who are interested in 
our leading crops, hay and pasturing. There is yet so much to 
learn in regard to grass, its culture and management, that few of 
our farmer visitors can afford to leave the Station grounds without 
looking over these plats, to compare the vigor and appearance of 
the grasses with which he is acquainted with others growing under 
_ like conditions, which may aid him to increase the value of his 
crops by adopting a larger variety, or by changing his varieties 
altogether, or making different combinations in seeding. 
The special work attempted with these plats the past season 
has been the collection of botanical specimens for addition to the 
Station museum, and for exhibition at the fairs and farmers’ meet- 
ings, to illustrate talks on the subject of grasses and their value; also 
_ the collection of samples at different stages of growth for analysis. 
There had been nothing done with the large grass plats up to 
the termination of my connection with the Station, except to cut 
and weigh the crop as hay. The seeding and weight of crops on 
these plats are given in the following table. The lower series of 
A plats were intended to be harvested by half plats as seeded, but 
_ the growth was so nearly equal on the several halves, and clover 
had come in so strongly that it was abandoned. ‘This clover was 
probably seeded in by a top-dressing of manure made from hay 
in which the clover had ripened while waiting for the later grass 
_ to come to the proper stage for hay : 
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