170 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



fertilizer, six hundred pounds of fine-ground bones and two 

 hundred pounds of muriate of potash, per acre, was sown 

 soon after the ploughing, slightly harrowed under, and the 

 various seeds subsequently planted as stated below. 



The entire south side of Field C was planted with barley, 

 in rows two feet apart. The north side was occupied by a 

 series of crops in the following order, beginning at the east 

 end of the held : — 



5 rows English rye grass, rows two feet apart. 



3 rows early Southern white corn, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 2 rows early Southern cow-pea, rows three feet three inches apart. 



4 rows horse bean, rows three feet three inches apart. 



4 rows white soja bean, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows black soja bean, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 2 rows bush peas, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows Scotch tares, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows common vetch, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows white lupine, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows serradella, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows Bokhara clover, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows sainfoin, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows English rye grass, rows two feet apart. 

 1 row sulla. 



1 row festuca No. 1 (Connecticut). 



2 rows pyrethrum, rows two feet apart. 



3 rows lotus villosus, rows three feet three inches apart. 



15 rows Florimond Desprez's richest sugar beet, rows two feet apart. 

 15 rows Bulteau Desprez's richest sugar beet, rows two feet apart. 

 15 rows Dippe's Kleinwanzleben sugar beet, rows two feet apart. 



15 rows Dippe's Vilmorin sugar beet, rows two feet apart. 



16 rows Simon Le Grand's white improved sugar beet, rows two feet 

 apart. 



The entire field was kept clean from weeds by a timely 

 use of a one-horse cultivator and the hoe. 



Barley. — The area occupied by barley was 30,504 square 

 feet. It required thirty-four pounds of seed, or forty-eight 

 to fifty pounds per acre. The seed was planted with a 

 brush seeding machine, without plate, May 3. The young 

 plants begun to come up May 6. They were cultivated 

 June 3, and headed out June 25. The heads remained free 

 from smut, but the leaves showed many brown spots, due to 

 fungous growth. 



The crop reached a height of twenty-five inches, and 

 turned yellow July 25. It was cut July 31, and put in the 



