220 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Field E (Rue). 

 This field is 260 feet long and 48 feet 

 wide, containing .286 acre. In Septem- 

 ber of 1892 the field was ploughed and 

 the following fertilizer mixture applied : 

 200 pounds of fine-ground bone and 70 

 pounds of high-grade sulphate of potash. 

 The field was then sown to rye and winter 

 rape, two-thirds of a bushel of rye and ten 

 pounds of rape being used for seed. Both 

 the rye and the rape came up and made a 

 fair fiill growth. The rye wintered well, 

 but the rape entirely winter-killed.* The 

 rye headed out May 29 and was cut July 12. 



Yield of Rye. 



Pounds. 



Grain, 336 



Straw and chaff, 1,243 



Rate x>er Acre, 



Grain, 1,175 



Straw and chaff, 4,246 



* Judging from the experiment, the seed sown proved to be summer rape instead 

 of winter rape, as supposed. 



