1890.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 161) 



Teosinte (Euchlcrna luxurians) , two rows. 

 Flour corn, one row. 

 Pop-corn, striped rice, one row. 

 Chinese sugar cane, seven rows. 

 Early orange cane, fifteen r®ws. 

 Early amber cane, fifteen rows. 



The seeds of the plants, with the exception of the carrots, 

 serradella, vetch and Southern cow-pea, were sent on bjthe 

 United States Department of Agriculture. (For details, 

 see sixth annual report, pages 115 to 120.) 



Field (7, 1889. — The entire area of both divisions of 

 this field Avas carefully prepared in a similar manner as in 

 the preceding spring. It was ploughed and harrowed April 

 20, and fertilized broadcast with fine-ground bone and 

 muriate of potash, at the rate of six hundred pounds of the 

 former and two hundred pounds of the latter. The entire 

 southern half of the field was planted with roots, while the 

 northern half was used for raising a variety of fodder and 

 garden crops. The majority of the seeds used in this con- 

 nection were sent on by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture ; others came from parties more or less directly 

 interested in the particular variety sent on for trial ; some 

 were bought of reliable parties. Most of these seeds were 

 planted merely for the purpose of studying their particular 

 degree of adaptation to our climate and soil, to secure suitable 

 material for analysis, and to ascertain their relative propor- 

 tion of essential nutritive constituents. As this part of our 

 work requires exceptional accommodation for analytical 

 work, it has to be largely deferred to a more fiivorable part 

 of the year. This circumstance must serve as our excuse 

 for publishing some analyses of the crops raised in 1888 for 

 the first time on the present occasion. 



Dsscription of the Principal Crops raised on the Southern 

 Division of Fidd (7, beginning at the West End. 



American rata-haga turnips of Delano Moore, Presque 

 Isle, Me., two rows, 109 feet long and 2 feet apart, were 

 planted May 3. The young plants appeared above ground 

 May 11 ; they w^ere thinned out in the rows to eio-ht inches 



