12 — 
loStSntslSff 7 re S "Ti"i , bee + ts and much the same com- 
FC'TiS's,. uri^rsaSs 
in* anTifi tbFiw'f '* P f’ “ “.ff y 10 t& bloat- 
L-rpu ll w th 1 fi f t few days a11 danger is past. The rape 
bSfiSd ?0 gr °" ,Kl ” " ,l ‘“ line th “* 
Its best use at present seems to be for sheen nastnve in 
i™thl, a n/ nf rl ^ fan - , If ensila S e ever is adoptecf in Colo 
iado this plant will rival corn as an ensilage crop. 
CORN. 
Dming the season of 1894, many varieties of corn worn 
compiriso?^?^ i The parti , calar ob Ject in view was the 
comparison of the large southern corns, with the smalW 
varieties in common use. This was the first time that We 
fodder corn had been raised on the College Farm and almolt 
the first ever seen in this viVinitv aii • T- almost 
planted the same day, May l^&thfhjSd 
bilf 6 Th* apart 6a i Ch Way ’ allowin g about five kernel’s to the 
hill. They were harrowed June 4th, and during the next 
SSXr&’wB.'SW *ir, times b » lh 4*£fS 
weeas in the bills cut out with hoes. They were irrigated 
u y nd, and afterwards cultivated again both wavs Half 
of each variety was on land freshly manured with stahle 
iZScwS *&» *•£ >“i “ond^et 
nomieci cio\ ersod. Doth fields turned out to be verv uneven in 
c laracter and drainage, so much so that it was deemed best 
in making comparisons to select one hundred h?ll”ofeach 
S lidtwSVir the m * n r d *” <1 
parisol of the rHffn g T as ? e ^ rly a ® possible a correct com¬ 
parison ot the different varieties. The yields given in the 
following tables are calculated from these hundred Mils and 
meoium land, well cultivated and irrigated. These yields arp 
on the average a little less than tL crops we obtained 
largffoddlT S c°o n rn r ' fi ? ld d TT planted enbrely to 
® , . oin, i. e., the land selected for the varietv fp^f 
S s ,° g° od as the average of our tillable soil 3 
The \aneties were harvested September 25th affpv 
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