152 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



The subsequent statement contains an enumeration of the 

 prhicipal crops raised in different parts of the farm, on lands 

 either permanently assigned for the production of fodder 

 for the live stock of the Station, or engaged in a course of 

 preparation for future experiments : — 



Tons 



Good English hay, 23 



Rowen, . 9 



Corn stovex", 3^ 



Corn fodder, 4| 



Roots (can'ots and sugar beets), 7 



Oats (grain and straw), 4^ 



Barley (grain and straw), 2 



Green fodder (vetch, oats and cow-pea), 4i 



Crops for ensilage (corn, 9| tons ; Soja bean, cow-pea and Hun- 

 garian grass, 3^ tons), 13 



Potatoes (mainly Beauty of Hebron, Early Rose and Polaris), 2C0 bush. 



From four to five acres of Southern cow-pea, Soja bean, 

 horse bean, lupine and buckwheat have been subjected to 

 drill cultivation, for the purpose of renovating old grass 

 lands and to serve ultimately as green manure. 



