AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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Summary of Average Results for 1890 and 1891. 



I If 



3-2 S 

 "3.5P 



Southern Corn 



Rutabagas 



Hungarian Grass. • . . 



Sugar Beets 



English Flat Turnips 

 Field Corn (Flint)... 



Sweet Corn 



Mangolds 



Peas (Grain) 



Timothy Hay (assumed crop) 4.000 





ft)S. 



39.645 

 31,695 

 18.940 

 17.645 

 28.500 

 21.690 

 18,260 

 15,375 

 1,665 



lbs. 

 5580 

 3415 

 4680 

 2590 

 2559 

 3110 

 2671 

 1613 

 1415 



3500 



lbs. 

 3S50 

 2978 

 2967 

 2447 

 2375 

 2208 

 1870 

 1266 

 1231 



2065 



In discussing the above figures which are a statement of the 

 yield of the several crops under consideration, it should be remem- 

 bered that no effort was made to secure phenomenally large pro- 

 duction. It is not claimed that in any case a maximum crop was 

 harvested, although the growth in 1891 of twenty-three tons of 

 So. Corn and fourteen tons of Field Corn per acre, is a fairly 

 creditable showing. The sole purpose of these experiments has 

 been to test the relative growth of these fodder and root plants, un- 

 der conditions as entirely similar as it was possible to make them. 



The results here given are not considered as final. Plans are 

 in progress for repeating this work in other sections of the State 

 on typical corn land, under conditions unquestionably favorable to 

 a solution of the problem involved. Notwithstanding the fact 

 that this should be considered as a report of progress, it may not 

 be out of place to summarize the results so far reached. It 

 should be borne in mind in this connection, that the question of 

 cost is entirely ignored. 



(1.) The large variety of fodder corn, namely: the Southern 

 White Horse Tooth, under the conditions in which the crops 

 were grown greatly excelled the other varieties of corn and the 

 roots in the production of total and of digestible dry matter. 



(2.) The crops which rank next in the production of digesti- 

 ble dry matter are Hungarian grass and rutabaga turnips. 



Special attention is called to the very favorable comparative 

 showing of Hungarian Grass as a fodder producing crop. 



