194 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



V. Notes on Miscellaneous Field Work. 



Although the entire farm land of the station has been 

 placed under a careful supervision, as far as records of 

 manuring, modes of cultivation and proper selection of crops 

 for cultivation are concerned, a considerable part of it is not 

 yet engaged in a strictly experimental work. The course 

 adopted in the management of some fields aims at a timely 

 preparation for some definite experiment contemplated in 

 the near future ; in others, to fit them for an economical 

 production of fodder crops for the support of farm live 

 stock. The fields designed for the cultivation of fruit- 

 bearing trees and shrubs, to study the causes and the 

 character of the diseases they are frequently heir to, are 

 subdivided, and each plat subjected to a systematic treat- 

 ment with diflferent kinds and forms of manurial substances. 

 The outlines of the area selected for permanent meadows are 

 better defined, and the condition of the lands improved, 

 by underdraining and ditching ; diflTerent portions of the 

 meadows are stocked with difl:erent varieties of grasses, to 

 test their adaptation and their economical -value. The 

 ploughed lands are subjected periodically, whenever practi- 

 cable, to drill cultivation, in the interest of a clean culture. 



As the work accomplished in this direction can be better 

 appreciated when stated later on in connection with the 

 different results secured, a mere enumeration of the principal 

 field crops raised during the past season may sufiice here. 



Hay, .... 



Row en, 



Corn for ensilage, 



Carrots, 



Sugar-beets, 



Barley, grain and straw, 



Oats, grain and straw, 



Coi'n on the cob, 



Fodder corn, ' . " 



Corn stover. 



Sorghum fodder. 



Vetch and oats (green), 



Cow-pease (green), . 



Serradella (green), . 



87 tons. 



15 tons. 



19 tons. 



6J tons. 

 4 tons. 

 5,750 pounds. 

 5,350 pounds. 

 5,250 i^ounds. 

 7,000 pounds. 

 7,000 pounds. 

 2,000 pounds. 

 5,450 iDounds. 

 6,600 pounds. 

 8,350 pounds. 



