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of eighteen tons to the acre, containing 29 per cent, of dry 
matter, or 5.2 tons of di*}^ matter per acre. 
Egyptian Corn. The poorest stand of all, with a few 
scattering but large heads. The whole crop yielded at the 
rate of eleven tons to the acre, containing 87.5 per cent, of 
dry matter, or 4.1 tons of dry matter per acre. 
The two Broom Corns did not ripen the brush very well, 
but they grew an enormous amount of fodder per acre. If 
this had been dried and fed to stock, it would have been 
poorly eaten, but being preserved wet in the silo it was eaten 
readily. The Evergreen Broom Corn yielded twenty tons of 
fodder per acre, and the Japanese twenty-two tons per acre. 
They averaged 88.5 per cent, of dry matter, or over seven 
tons of dry matter per acre. 
Such material, with 82 to 88 per cent, of dry matter, is as 
dry as it is safe to put in the silo. 
FORAGE PLAfiTS. 
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During the season of 1894, nearly seventj^-five varieties 
of forage crops were grown in large and small plats on the 
College farm. Many of them need continued tests to furnish 
a basis for an intelligent judgment. 
Flat Pea. (Lathyrus sylvestris). A great many letters 
have come to the Station asking about this new forage plant. 
It has not been tried sufficiently yet to show whether it will 
ever return a profitable crop, but it is certain that it never 
will be largely grown in Colorado. It needs to be planted in 
well prepared* soil, carefully hand weeded and cultivated a 
whole season, and then transplanted the next season to its 
permanent place. The crop the second year is not enough to 
pay expenses. So that it is not until the third year, after an 
investment of as much money as several years’ crops will be 
worth, and the loss of the use of the land for two years, that 
the crop begins to make any return. There has nothing yet 
come to light in its history at this Station or at any other to 
indicate that when fully set and grown, it is even as good as 
alfalfa. 
We have a considerable quantity of it sown at the 
College, but it has not made so large a root growth as it should 
under the favorable conditions surrounding it. 
Sacaline. (Poly gonum sachalinense). This plant is get¬ 
ting an immense amount of advertising at the present time 
