DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Fred W. Morse. 



The investigations in this department were limit-ed to field 

 experiments, continuing the rotation of crops begun last year, 

 and testing a number of varieties of corn and forage croj^s. 

 The weather conditions were extremely unfavorable to our 

 common crops, hence the less common kinds were, as a rule, 

 worthless. Corn failed almost entirely. Winter rye, oats, 

 Canada peas, clovers, timothy, and redtop gave excellent yields 

 of forage. The smaller types of millet, Hungarian grass, and 

 Russian millet were satisfactory, and rape grew well. Three 

 twentieth-acre i)lats were seeded with alfalfa, July 2, and an 

 excellent stand was secured. But another season is required to 

 determine whether it will withstand the winter. 



The often recurring changes in the management of this de- 

 l^artment have, of course, resulted in a lack of continuity of 

 investigations and a considerable amount of scattering data. 

 It is planned to have these data assembled and edited during 

 the coming year. 



Mr. Herbert M. Tucker, superintendent of the farm, resigned 

 his position April 1, and was succeeded by Mr. Percy A. Cami^- 

 bell, who executed the field work of the season. 



