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seed and fertilizer being put in with a combined grass, grain and 

 fertilizer drill. The tests were always made on the most uniform 

 piece of ground that could be selected for that year, and although 

 the type of soil varied from year to year, for any given year it 

 was quite uniform on all of the plots. No manure was applied 

 directly to the oat gi'ound, but as a rule the oats were sown on 

 corn ground which had been manured the year previous. 



TESTS OF OATS IN 1904. 



Size of plots. — 204 x 21^ feet, one tenth acre. 



Soil. — Brown loam 6 to 8 inches, underlaid by blue clay. 



Date of seeding. — IMay 6. 



Note. — All the varieties made a promising growth during the 

 early summer. By July 22 all were headed out, but showed 

 considerable smut. During the last week of July the rust struck 

 them with such fatal results that the straw broke down at the 

 fourth or fifth joints and no kernels matured. On August 10 

 the plots were cut with a mower, the straw dried, drawn to the 

 barn and weighed. 



