188 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



reputed farm plants new to our section of the country, and 

 also to serve as an object lesson to our visitors, regarding 

 their general characteristics. The benefit derived from this 

 practical illustration of our possibilities in the choice of valu- 

 able additions to our field crops has been so manifest during 

 preceding years that it will receive increased attention on 

 our part in the future. Some of the plants here cultivated 

 during previous seasons have already been introduced into 

 our farm industry on a suificiently extensive scale to enable 

 us to form a decided opinion regarding their special local 

 economical value. Foremost among them are some fodder 

 crops, Southern cow-pea, serradella, some vetches, and black 

 and white soja bean. Successful feeding experiments with 

 green vetch and oats and with green soja bean, as well as 

 with a mixed ensilage of soja bean and green fodder corn, 

 have been already noted in our preceding report (eighth). 

 The satisfactory results of preceding years were fully con- 

 firmed during the late summer season. A detailed descrip- 

 tion of this experiment may be found in this report, under 

 the heading, "Summer Feeding Experiment with Milch 

 Cows," page 59. 



Statement of crops raised upon the north division of 

 Field C : — 



White soja bean (Soja hispida), four rows. The seed 

 was raised upon the station grounds in 1890. It was sown 

 in rows three feet and three inches apart, May 18 ; the 

 young plants appeared above ground May 30, and began to 

 bloom during the middle of July. The lower leaves began 

 to dry up September 4. The crop was pulled to collect the 

 seed September 25. 



Black soja bean, four rows. This variety is of a lighter- 

 green color, and seems to be somewhat more vigorous than 

 the former. It is still green when the white variety has 

 turned yellow. We have raised for several years, success- 

 fully, large crops of both varieties of soja bean, and con- 

 sider them for our locality a most valuable addition to our 

 forage crops. 



Serradella ( Ornithopus sativus) , eight rows, three feet 

 three inches apart. Sown May 14 ; began to bloom July 

 20 ; appeared somewhat affected by blight September 3, but 



