our system of fjirmiiig. Home and imported varieties of sugar beets, 

 and of sorghnm are ineluded in the trial. 



The effect of green manuring on tlie production of croi)S may be 

 seen in several parts of the field. 



The merits of raising grain crops by Ijroadcast seeding and in 

 drills are illustrated on barley and oats. 



The degree of success which has followed our course of renovating 

 worn out grass lands and swampy meadows may be judged by the 

 present condition of various crops raised upon these lands. 



Aside from these more prominent features of our field work., may 

 be noticed a variety of reputed fodder plants, foreign to this section 

 of the country, cultivated on a small scale for the pur|)ose of study- 

 ing their degree of acclimatization, as well as their special merits, 

 when compared vvitli prominent home fodder plants. Included in this 

 part of our field trials are varieties of oats, barley, sorghum, horse 

 beans, southern cow peas, clovers, and lupines, liesides sulla, tre- 

 foil, Japanese buckwheat, etc. 



Adding to attractions offered by an examination of the field work, 

 the inspection of our arrangements lor feeding exi)eriments with va- 

 rious kinds of farm live stock, and of the outfit of the chemical and 

 botanical physiological laboratories of the station, with their industry 

 peculiar to the growing season, to meet the numerous application of 

 farmers in all parts of tiie state, we confidently leave it to the reports 

 of our visitors whether the time they spent with us has compensated 

 them for the exertion made on their part to visit the State Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, during the summer season, in the beautiful 

 town of Amherst. 



DEPAR TMKNT OF VEGEPABLE PHYSIOLOGY, 



620- VYIiile the Department desires to render all possible service 

 to the people of the state in any branch oC Agrieultuial Botany, es- 

 pecial attention is and will be given to those diseases of plants which 

 are caused by the attacks of parasitic fungi, commonly known as 

 rusts, smuts, mildews, blights, sjiots, rots, etc. 



The undersigned especially desires to be informed of the preva- 

 lence of any of these troubles in any part of the state, and to receive 

 specimens of infected plarits. Such specimens may be pressed and sent 

 between pasteboai'd, or may be packed, fresh, in a tin box, with a 

 little moist moss or cotton to keej) them fresh. 



