8 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Part I. 



On Feeding Experiments. 



I. Feeding experiments with milch cows (two) . 



1. General feeding experiments with milch cows : — 



Grain feed : Buffalo gluten feed, wheat bran and cotton- 

 seed meal. 



Coarse feed : English hay, corn stover, and com and soja- 

 bean ensilage. 



2. Summer feeding experiments with milch cows : — 



Grain feed : Buffalo gluten feed, new-process linseed meal, 



wheat bran and cotton-seed meal. 

 Coarse feed : rowen, green fodder corn and green vetch and 



oats. 



3. Creamery record of the station for 1892 and 1893. 



II. Feeding experiments with steers. 



III. Feeding experiments with lambs. 



IV. Feeding experiments with pigs (two) . 

 V. Feeding experiments with calves. 



VI. Digestion experiments with sheep. 

 VII. F'eeding experiments with horses. 



The past season was not quite as favorable for the conduct- 

 ing of field experiments as some preceding years have been. 

 A serious drought at the close of the growing period affected 

 the results in a number of cases. Many of the results 

 obtained ma}^ however, he considered satisfactory. The 

 following lines of investigation have been carried on in the 

 field. 



Part II. 



On Field Experiments. 



1. Field experiments to ascertain the effect of the exclusion of 



every form of nitrogen-containing manurial matter from 

 the fertilizer applied for the production of a grain crop 

 (oats) on its yield per acre (Field A). 



2. Field experiments with prominent varieties of grasses and 



grass mixtures under fairly corresponding circumstances 

 and with different varieties on potatoes (Field B) . 



3. Field experiments regarding the effect of different combin-a- 



tions of commercial fertilizers on the yield of some promi- 

 nent garden crops (Field C) . 



4. Observations regarding the adaptation of a variety of more or 



less reputed fodder plants new to our section of the country 

 (Field D). 



