190 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



4. Experiments with a Variety of New Forage Crops 



(1892). 



Field D. 



This field is 328 feet long and 70 feet wide (east to west) ; 

 it covers an area of 22,960 square feet, or .527 acres. 

 During previous years it has been used for the cultivation 

 of a variety of annual fiirm and garden crops, and has been 

 manured most of the time annually with a mixture of 

 muriate of potash and ground bone, at the rate of two 

 hundred pounds of the former and six hundred pounds of 

 the latter per acre. 



During the past season it has served for the raising of a 

 variety of reputed annual and perennial fodder crops, in the 

 majority of cases new to our section of .the country, for the 

 purpose of studying their adaptation to our climate and soil. 



The field was ploughed April 19, and manured with three 

 hundred pounds ground bone and one hundred pounds 

 muriate of potash. It was harrowed and prepared for 

 planting May 10. The difierent crops were planted in rows 

 two and one-half feet apart, to admit of the use of a horse 

 cultivator ; all were subsequently kept clean by means of 

 the cultivator and hoe. They were arranged in the field 

 in the following order, beginning at the west end of the 

 field : — 



^.rtichoke, Jerusalem {Helianthus tuberosus). 



Priekley comfrey {Sjpnphytiivi officinale). 



Pyrethrum {Pyrethriivi rosenm). 



Forest pea {Lathyrus sylvestris) . 



Stacby's tubers {Stachys affiids). 



Kidney vetch {Anthyllis vulneraria). 



Winter rape (Brassica Napus). 



Sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa). 



Yellow trefoil ( TriJoUum agrarium) . 



Spring vetch ( Vicia sativa) . 



Jiokhara clover ( Melilotus alba) . 



Summer rape {Brassica Napris). 



Common English horse bean {Vicia faba). 



Serradella {Omithopus satious). 



Soja bean {Soja hispida). 



