EXPERIMENT STATION. 415 



List of Expekiments proposed for the present Year 



(1883). 



1. Relation of crops to manure, and to soil constituents, 

 and to the conditions, which involve a loss of fertilizing 

 material by drainage. This experiment would require from 

 twelve to fifteen plats, of from one-tenth to one-tiflh of an 

 acre each, in size. The whole land to be well underdrained, 

 to enable the collection of the drainage waters for chemical 

 analysis. 



2. Experiments to illustrate the rehitive manurial value 

 of commercial fertilizers, and of barnyard manure of equiv- 

 alent composhion ; and to investigate the economy of buy- 

 ing feed for the farm live-stock, instead of commercial fertil- 

 izer for the improvement of the farm lands for the production 

 of farm crops. Six feeding-boxes are needed for making 

 and collecting the manures. 



3. Feeding experiments with pigs — to ascertain the rela- 

 tive value of skim-milk and of whole milk, alone and when 

 mixed with other stronger articles of food, as corn-meal, 

 cotton-seed meal, etc., conforming to definite fodder rations. 

 From twelve to twenty pens are desired to isolate the ani- 

 mals ; the trial to begin with young auimals early in the 

 spring. 



4. Feeding experiments with cows ; to study the influence 

 of various combinations of our staple articles of fodder on 

 the quality, and the quantity of milk ; some of the fodder 

 miglit be raised on the lands set apart for the experiment 

 station. 



5. Comparative tests of green fodder, dry fodder, and 

 the products of the silo, regarding the economy of the 

 operation. 



6. Cultivation of some new forage crops for green fod- 

 der. Some leguminous plants, which for several years have 

 been successfully raised upon experimental plats of the col- 

 lege, are proposed to be raised with rye and oats to increase 

 their nutritive ratio. 



7. Eflect of diflferent articles of plant food upon the 

 quality and the quantity of fruits, time of ripening, and 



