JExperiment Station Report. 9 



EEPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT 



FIELD AND FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. 



To the Honorable the Board of Control of 



The Slate Agricultural Experiment Station. 



The following report of operations in the department of 

 Field and Feeding Experiments for the year 1883 is respect- 

 fully submitted. 



M. MILES, 



Superinte7iclent of Field and Feeding Experimeiits. 



At the beginning of the present year an outline of a plan 

 of experiments, in this department, was drawn np by me for 

 the consideration of the Board, together with a plan for the 

 required alterations in the old barn to fit it for the pur- 

 poses of feeding experiments, and presented to Director 

 Goessmann. 



Having been informed that this plan of proposed experi- 

 ments had been approved by the Board of Control, I was 

 instructed by the Director of the Station to locate and stake 

 out the proposed plats for the field experiments, and to con- 

 struct the required drains, with provisions for collecting the 

 drainage waters, to carry out the systematic investigations 

 contemplated in the outline presented under the first subdi- 

 vision of the approved plan. 



The Field Plats. 



After a careful examination of the area assigned for field 

 experiments and a detailed study of its previous history as 

 to cropping, with reference to its present agricultural condi- 

 tion, — in which I was materially aided by the advice and sug- 

 gestions that were kindly given by Hon. Levi Stockbridge, 



