1897.] 



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The following table shows the amount of seed sown, the 

 date of cutting and the yield of well-cured hay. For con- 

 venience of comparison, the yield of the " barn-yard " variety 

 is given for the same area as the others ; — 



Varieties of Millet ( One-third Acre Each) . 



The fact must be stated that the quantity of seed of the 

 " barn-yard " variety proved to have been rather too great 

 for a season so favorable for rank growth as was the last. 

 The crop of this variety lodged badly, and was therefore 

 cut rather before it would otherwise have been. It was the 

 intention to cut each variety when the seed of the plants on 

 the earliest portion of the plat was well formed, but before it 

 began to harden ; and this was done except in the case of the 

 barn-yard variety, which, as before stated, was cut a little 

 before this stage was reached. The several varieties yielded, 

 as determined by calculation from the results given in the 

 above table, at the following rates per acre of well-cured 

 hay : Japanese barn-yard millet, 7,830 pounds ; Japanese 

 panicle millet, 7,230 pounds; Japanese common millet, 

 6,075 pounds ; and Hungarian grass, 5,190 pounds. 



(b) Second Experiment. — Seventeen varieties of millet, 

 including the 4 above discussed, were given a trial upon a 

 smaller scale, upon similar soil and under similar conditions 

 to those just described. The plats in this experiment were 

 ten rods long and one rod wide, containing, therefore, one- 

 sixteenth of an acre each. The results are shown in the 

 table which follows : — 



