514 BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. [Jan. 



The details of the work carried on upon field " B " are 

 from year to year recorded in the annual report of the 

 Station. As the chemical analyses of the crops raised 

 require considerable time, on account of other contemporary 

 pressing engagements in the laboratory, they are usually 

 published in bulletins and the reports of the succeeding 

 year. These analyses may claim a special interest, as they 

 are made of a variety of fodder crops, raised, as far as 

 practicable, under corresponding circumstances with refer- 

 ence to climate, to soil, to system of manuring, to the 

 adopted modes of cultivation, of harvesting and of analyz- 

 ing. In making this statement, I do not mean to imply 

 that our local conditions of climate and of soil are in every 

 instance the most favorable ones to enable the various crops 

 here on trial to attain in all cases the highest possible devel- 

 opment. This qualification of our results applies with more 

 or less propriety to some varieties of grasses as well as of 

 leguminous plants. 



The subsequent tabular record of the crops raised upon 

 the difi"erent plats of field "B" since 1884 may assist in a 

 desirable understanding of its past history and its condition 

 at the beginning of the season of 1888. The single plats 

 are, since 1886, each 175 feet long and 33 feet wide. 



