FARM NOTES. 
By W. W. COOKE. 
The following bulletin contains the records of various 
tests that have been made on the college farm during the 
years 1894 to 1899. They are grouped under the following 
headings: 
I. Alfalfa. 
a —Losses in cutting and curing. 
b —Losses in the stack and in the barn. 
c —Alfalfa ensilage. 
d —Three methods of handling alfalfa. 
e —Top-dressing alfalfa. 
f —Moisture in green alfalfa. 
g —Moisture in alfalfa hay. 
II. Corn. 
a —Silo notes. 
b —Seed corn from different altitudes and latitudes. 
c —Variety tests of corn. 
d —Number of stalks in a hill. 
e —Missing hills in a corn field. 
III. Potatoes. 
a —Alfalfa sod compared with old land. 
^—Experiments with fertilizers. 
IY. Sugar Beets. 
a —Subsoiling for sugar beets. 
b— Sugar beets in Colorado in 1899. 
1. Time of planting. 
2. Distance between rows. 
3. Irrigating the seed. 
4. Variety tests. 
5. Summary. 
