170 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. fJau. 



fertilizer, six hundred pounds of fine-ground bones and two 

 hundred pounds of muriate of potash, per acre, Avas sown 

 soon after the plougliing, slightly harrowed under, and the 

 various seeds subsequently planted as stated below. 



The entire south side of Field C was planted with barley, 

 in rows two feet apart. Tlio north side was occupied by a 

 series of crops in the following order, beginning at the east 

 end of the field : — 



5 rows English lye grass, rows two feet apart, 



3 rows early Soutlierii white corn, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 ^2 rows eai"ly Southern cow-pea, rows three feet three inches apart 



4 rows horse bean, rows three feet three inches apart. 



4 rows wliite sqja bean, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows black soja bean, rows three feet three inches ajiart. 

 2 rows bush peas, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows Scotch tares, rows thi-ee feet three inches ajiart. 

 4 rows common vetch, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows white lupine, rows three feet three inches ajiart. 

 4 rows serradella, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows Bokhara clover, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows sainfoin, rows three feet three inches apart. 

 4 rows English rye grass, rows two feet ajDart. 

 1 row sulla. 



1 row festuca No. 1 (Connecticut). 



2 rows ijyrethrum, rows two feet apart. 



3 rows lotus villosus, i-ovvs three feet three inches apart. 



15 rows Florimond Despi'ez's richest sugar beet, rows two feet apart. 

 15 rows Bulteau Desprez's richest sugar beet, rows two feet apart. 

 15 rows Dippe's Kleinwanzlcben sugar beet, rows two feet apart. 



15 rows Dippe's Vilmorin sugar beet, rows two feet apart. 



16 rows Simon Le GrancVs white imjJi'oved sugar beet, rows two feet 

 apart. 



The entire field was kept clean from weeds by a timely 

 iise of a one-horse cultivator and the hoe. 



Barley. — The area occupied by barley was 30,504 square 

 feet. It required thirty-four pounds of seed, or forty-eight 

 to fifty pounds per acre. The seed was phmted with a 

 brush seeding machine, without plate. May 3. The young 

 plants began to come up May 6. They were cultivated 

 June 3, and headed out June 25. The heads remained free 

 from smut, but the leaves showed man}^ brown spots, due to 

 fungous growth. 



The crop reached a height of twenty-five inches, and 

 turned yellow July 25. It was cut July 31, and put in the 



