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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Oats. — Worthy oats which were bred out at East Lansing and wliicli 

 are being grown here in the larger field areas yielded 47 bushels per 

 acre. Nine farmers were furnished seed of this variety. 



,EooTS. — These were grown for dairy cattle and sheep feeding. Ruta- 

 bagas grown on rough, ncAV land comprising 2.37 acres, in cultivated 

 drill rows oO inclies apart, yielded 4(>,114 pounds, or an average of 

 19.46 tons per acre. Because of the possibility of growing a variety of 

 root crops, of high yield, there is need of printed material descriptive 

 of the most up-to-date methods of production, in order to minimize the 

 large amount of expensive labor usually involved. 



OATS AND CORN, lUlO 



Silage Crops. — Both coru and oats and peas were grown for silage. 

 Because of unsuitable conditions the corn made veiy little growth and 

 was frosted when it had attained a height of about four feet on August 

 26, 1917. The total yield for a total area of 3 acres was 6.64 tons or 

 an average of 2.21 tons. It made a poor quality of silage. 



The oats and peas yielded 65.5 tons of green material for silage from 

 6.41 acres or an average of 10.28 tons per acre. This croj) made an 

 excellent quality of silage which was relished by the dairy herd, result- 

 ing in the good returns illustrated in the dairy financial statement. The 

 production of oat and pea silage is giving such good results as to require 

 further investigation and more detailed reports as to methods of grow- 

 ing, siloing, feeding, etc. 



SoY Beans. — One-half acre of soy beans was planted both this year 

 and last, but were damaged by frost in both cases. 



Potatoes. — Most of the potatoes grown on the Station Farm were in 

 the demonstration plots. Five different varieties commonly raised in 

 the Upper Peninsula were grown under varying conditions. The objects 



