64 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



HAY OF OATS. 



[From Plats of Station, cut while in milk, July 9, 1885.] 



Some of the green crop was used in a feeding experiment 

 with milch cows previous to the time of cutting for hay. 



Horse Bean and Barley. — Forty-nine one hundreths 

 of an acre of land, ploughed and manured in connection 

 with the field which served for the production of horse bean 

 and oats, was seeded down with one and one-half bushels 

 of barley and one-half a bushel of horse bean, May 7. 

 The day of seeding was delayed on account of the late arrival 

 of the barley. The advanced season hastened the growth of 

 both barley and horse bean. The latter began to bloom in 

 but one week after that seeded in connection with the oats ; 

 the barley was fully in head June 20. The crop was cut 

 Avhen the barley grain was still in the milk, July 8, and 

 yielded, when housed, 2,900 lbs. of dry fodder, or 1.45 tons, 

 cr>ntaining still from 15 to 18 per cent, of moisture. 



