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just about as watery as sugar beets and much the same com¬ 
position as alfalfa. It will bloat an animal if given in too 
large quantities the first day. By feeding some dry fodder 
in connection with the rape, it is easy to prevent the bloat¬ 
ing, and after the first few days all danger is past. The rape 
grew well for us last summer on ground so alkaline that even 
sugar beets could not succeed. 
Its best use at present seems to be for sheep pasture in 
summer and early fall. If ensilage ever is adopted in Colo¬ 
rado this plant will rival corn as an ensilage crop. 
CORN. 
During the season of 1894, many varieties of corn were 
raised on the farm. The particular object in view was the 
comparison of the large southern corns, with the smaller 
varieties in common use. This was the first time that large 
fodder corn had been raised on the College Farm and almost 
the first ever seen in this vicinity. All the varieties were 
planted the same day. May 15th, with a hand planter, in hills 
three feet ajjart each way, allowing about five kernels to the 
hill. They were harrowed June 4th, and during the next 
three weeks were cultivated three times both ways, and the 
weeds in the hills cut out with hoes. They were irrigated 
July 2nd, and afterwards cultivated again both ways. Half 
of each variety was on land freshly manured with stable 
manure, the other half on fairly good land, the second year 
from red clover sod. Both fields turned out to be very uneven in 
character and drainage, so much so that it was deemed best 
in making comparisons to select one hundred hills of each 
variety, taken half from the manured and half from the other 
piece and selected to give as nearly as possible a correct com¬ 
parison of the different varieties. The yields given in the 
following tables are calculated from these hundred hills, and 
represent what any farmer can fairly expect to obtain on 
medium land, well cultivated and irrigated. These yields are 
on the average a little less than the crops we obtained 
the same season from our fields that were planted entirely to 
large fodder corn, i. e., the land selected for the variety test 
was not quite so good as the average of our tillable soil. 
The varieties were harvested September 25th, after 
several moderate frosts. Notes were taken on the growth 
from time to time. 
