— 10 — 
S“ffs £?e I.S. ThTlffc^S i ‘Z 
rate of eleven tons to the acre, containing 37 5 per cent of 
dry matter, or 4.1 tons of dry matter per acre. P * 
i f +i le ^ W0 ^ 100m ^orns did not ripen the brush very well 
but they grew an enormous amount of fodder per acre If 
tins had been dried and fed to stock, it would h^e been 
re°adilv ea The b F^ being P r? Serve( t wet in the silo it was eaten 
leaaiij. I he Evergreen Broom Corn yielded twenty tons of 
They'aS’ |s 6 no, Jap ^ nes f e twenty-two tons per acre. 
tons’ of pefac “ ■ i,y n,atte1 '' « » v ” •"» 
dry » S‘iStSS'" ce,,t »' «■» "»«« »•» 
FORAGE PLAAIT5. 
. during the season of 1894, nearly seventy-five varieties 
ColW g fHrm° PS M fl ere ??i Wn in I; ! r " e an d small plats on the 
tobnsl to'.™, intoIK'SS* ' lm,i,h 
’Z 
It has not been tried sufficiently yet to show whether it w 1 i 
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 piepared soil, carefully hand weeded and cultivated a 
na V e vnenL« I n \ -f ? p th ® sec . on d year is not enough to 
paj expenses. So that it is not until the third year after an 
investment of as much money as several years’ crop’s will be 
worth, and the loss of the use of the land for two Tel™that 
the ciop begins to make any return There has nothino- v<*+ 
come to light in its history at this Statum or at any othl/to 
indicate that when fully set and grown, it is even as good as 
ColleJe 6 buHt l,L C n T de f le , quantity of ^ «>wri at the 
uoiiege, out it has not made so large a root growth as it should 
under the favorable conditions surrounding it 
Sacanne. (Polygonum sachalinense). This plant is set¬ 
ting an immense amount of advertising at the present tfme 
