EXPERIMENT STATION. 
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The Agricultural Section. 
To all applicants for seed the Station is now prepared 
to send in small quantities, all kinds of spring and winter 
wheats, oats and barley; also corn, buckwheat, rye and 
other farm and field seeds, such as beans, beets, peas, 
broom-corn, pumpkins, squashes, flax, hemp, canary seed, 
millet — German, French and American — sunflower, 
lupins, lentils, vetches, milo maize, dourra, speltz, red 
clover in quantity, alfalfa, sorghum, kaffir corn and fenu¬ 
greek. 
These seeds have been very carefully improved for 
some years on the College farm, and are true to name and 
genuine so far as it is possible to make them. 
With all who receive these seeds, correspondence is 
solicited, and reports asked for as to the manner of seed¬ 
ing, culture, production, success and failure, and causes of 
same, adaptability to soil and climate, and their yield. 
In connection with this, such questions as the follow¬ 
ing might be reported, viz : Thick and thin seeding, 
deep and shallow planting, hill and flat culture, time of 
planting and irrigation, irrigation by flooding and in fur¬ 
rows, amount of water applied and number of irrigations 
during the season, and fertilizers, if any, used. Also, com¬ 
parative value for feeding purposes of the clovers, tame 
and wild grasses, corn fodder, value of field peas, pump¬ 
kins, squashes, beets, turnips and other forage and root 
plants. 
All distributions of seeds are made through the Hon. 
Frank J. Annis, Secretary of the State Board of Agri¬ 
culture, to whom all applications should be made. This 
Section would be pleased to receive from any source, 
available samples of new varieties of seeds to grow, by way 
of trial and comparison. 
