Thirty-fourth Annual Convention. ^^' 



An examination of the above table will show several results 

 worthy of note. The heaviest yield of hay, 8700 pounds, was 

 secured from-Clay peas (plot 16), and the lightest, 700 pounds, 

 from New Era and Black Eye (plots 88 and 98). No peas 

 ripened on plot 16, while plots 88 and 98 produced 1330 and 

 1036 pounds of shelled peas, the peas weighing considerably 

 more* than the vines that produced them. Plots 37-49, inclusive,, 

 produced no peas at all and very few blossoms appeared on these 

 plots, which were of the variety of Wonderful or Unknown. 

 Red Ripper and Clay gave very few peas and on some plots none 

 at all. The peas grown in 1902 were larger and heavier than 

 the seed planted by an average of 20.24 per cent. Only six plots 

 gave more peas to the ounce in 1902 than the seed planted. The 

 seed grown north of the latitude of Fayetteville gave an average 

 of 3388.1 pounds of hay per acre, and those south 3420.7 pounds 

 per acre. The seed grown north of Fayetteville produced 1.3 

 bushels of shelled peas per acre more than seed grown south of 

 Fayetteville. The following varieties gave the highest yields of 

 shelled peas: Calico, Coffee, Extra Early Black Eye, Iron, New 

 Era, Red Yellow Hull, Speckled Java, Warren's Extra Early, 

 Warren's New Hybrid, Watson's Hybrid, Whippoorwill, and 

 White Brown Eye. 



New Era, Old Man's, Warren's Extra Ea!*ly, Extra Early 

 Black Eye, and Warren's New Hybrid yield a greater proportion 

 of peas to vines than other varieties tested and are more product- 

 ive of peas than other varieties when planted in corn or after 

 grain, and are recommended for their early maturity. 



WASHING OF SOILS AND METHODS OF PREVENTION. 



By J. G. Mosier, Assistant Chief Soil Physics, University of Illinois. 



Illinois is the 'Trairie State," but in addition to the almost 

 boundless prairies there is an immense area of timber land, much 

 of which is broken or hilly. The total area of the state is 56,650 



