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of 100 lbs. dissolved bone black, 100 lbs. nitrate of soda 

 and 40 lbs. muriate of potash were sowed in the drill before 

 the seed was planted. Manner of seeding and cultivation 

 the same as in 1890. 

 The varieties of corn, roots, etc., which have been grown are 

 the following : 



Southern Corn, — White Horse Tooth. 



Field Corn, — a Flint variety maturing in Penobscot Co. 



Sweet Corn, — Early Crosby. 



Sugar Beets, — Lane's Imperial. 



Mangolds, — Champion Yellow Globe. 



Rutabagas, — Yellow Globe. 



English Flat Turnip, — Purple Top Strap Leaf. 



Peas, — Black Eyed Marrowfat. 



Hungarian Grass. 



The Hungarian grass was not grown on the same land as the 

 other crops, but the yield of this fodder plant was determined by 

 weighing the produce from a crop fed to the College herd. 



In 1888 the corn was planted with a seed drill as before stated, 

 and when hoed the first time it was thinned as nearly as possible 

 to two stalks per foot. About the same number of stalks were 

 grown with each variety. In both 1890 and 1891 two stalks were 

 grown to a foot with the Southern Corn and one stalk to a 

 foot with the Common Field Corn and Sweet Corn. This degree 

 of thickness with the several varieties was adopted because of 

 the results of an investigation made by the Connecticut Experi- 

 ment Station in the summer of 1888. (See Report of Conn. Exp't 

 Station, 1889, Part 1, page3 9 to 43.) This investigation showed 

 that the maximum amount of dry matter was produced when the 

 variety of Dent corn used was grown with two stalks to the foot 

 and the Flint variety with one stalk to the foot. Of course the 

 conditions of growth are different in Connecticut from what they 

 are in Maine, and it is possible that a similar investigation made at 

 this Station would show that a different thickness of planting 

 should be adopted in order to obtain maximum production. No 

 better guide is at hand, however, than the outcome of the experi- 

 ment mentioned. 



In the case of the root crops the plants were thinned to the dis- 

 tance of one foot in a row iu all of the three seasons. The peas were 

 sown in drills at the rate of two bushels of seed per acre. With 

 all of the crops the distance between the rows has been three feet. 



