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HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



Millets, Variety Tests {Plats One-sixteenth Acre Each). 



* In this table the names under which the varieties were advertised are used in the 

 case of all purchased sorts. The Japanese varieties are of our own importation or 

 production. 



The varieties especially noteworthy for large production 

 are the Japanese white panicle and the Japanese barn-yard, 

 the latter not doing its best either in this trial or the other, 

 on account of having been sown too thick. In estimating 

 the significance of these results, this fact must be kept in 

 mind. It is further important to state that the barn-yard 

 variety is far less harsh and woody than any of the other 

 large-growing varieties of millet. Its extreme succulence, 

 however, makes it rather difficult to cure. We have had 

 most success in handling it as clover is usually handled by 

 the best farmers, viz., by curing mostly in the cock. It is 

 our intention to publish analyses of these millets in a later 

 report or bulletin. 



Miscellaneous Crops. 

 A considerable number of miscellaneous crops have been 

 under trial upon a small scale, or have been cultivated for 

 illustrative purposes. Under this class may be included 

 37 species of grasses ; 22 varieties of millet for seed ; 26 

 species and varieties of leguminous fodder or green manur- 



