510 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



have been added to our experimental field for forage crops. 

 Three varieties, the white, the yellow and the blue, are fre- 

 quently cultivated by European agriculturalists. All are con- 

 sidered, more or less, a valuable addition to farm crops in 

 general. The yellow variety is generally considered the most 

 valuable of the three, for it is equally well fitted for green fod- 

 der or hay, or for green manure, and best adapted for a light, 

 sandy soil, where clover cannot be raised with success. The 

 seeds were planted May 12 ; the young plants were noticed 

 May 22 ; they began blooming when two and one-half feet high, 

 July 26 ; the seeds first formed August 7 ; the matured plants 

 were cut September 11. The blue lupine produced three and 

 one-half pounds of air-dried seeds to twelve and one-half pounds 

 of air-dried stems and pods ; the white and yellow varieties pro- 

 duced two pounds of air-dried seeds to twenty pounds of air- 

 dried stems and pods. 



Besides the above observations, small trials have also been 

 made with the following seeds : — 



Vicia villosa, \ ^^^ ^j^^^p pastures. 



Sperguhim maximum, J 



Sesame (Oil plant). 



P yrelhruvi roseum. 



Some varieties of corn: Pride of the North, from Minnesota; Browning 

 Corn, Springfield. 



Some varieties of Texas grasses. 



Alsike Clover. 



Melilotus albus (Honey Lotus). 



Lucerne (Alfalfa). 



Some varieties of oats : Harris Oats, from Alabama, and White Victoria 

 Oats, from Russia. 



Melon Barley, from Russia. 



Some of the results obtained in this connection are of suffi- 

 cient interest to encourage further trials on a larger scale dur- 

 ing the coming season. The new seeds of the varieties of oats 

 and those of the new variety of barley especially are reserved 

 for that purpose. 



