NEWSPAPER BULLETINS PUBLISHED IN 1903. 

 Chas. D. Woods. 



Whenever there is matter of importance which we wish to 

 bring promptly to the attention of the people of the State, we 

 make as clear and concise a statement as possible in the style and 

 type of a newspaper column and mail it as a "Special News- 

 paper Bulletin" to all the press on the Station exchange mailing 

 list. These newspaper bulletins are quite generally printed by 

 the papers, and the Station is under obligations to the press for 

 this opportunity of specially and promptly being put in touch 

 with the people. 



During the year the Station has issued several special news- 

 paper bulletins on miscellaneous subjects. The subject matter 

 of four of the newspaper bulletins has not appeared in any of the 

 regular bulletins of the Station and is therefore here reprinted 

 as a matter of permanent record. 



FERTILIZER FOR MANGOLDS.' 



RESULTS 01^ 2.^] YKARS EXPERIENCE ON SAME LAND. 



Mangolds (Mangel wurzels) are a valuable crop for poultry 

 and sheepmen, and where corn silage is not grown they are very 

 desirable for the dairy farmer. Six to seven hundred bushels, 

 weighing 15 to 18 tons, is the usual yield On good soil with clean 

 •cultivation. This yield gives about ij^ to i^ tons of dry matter 

 per acre, or as much as supplied by 12 to 14 tons of corn silage. 

 At the Rothamsted (England) Experimental Station mangolds 

 have been grown continuously on the same land for 2^ years. 

 The field was divided into eight plots, and careful study has been 

 made of the feeding capacity of this crop. The results are pub- 



