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34 acre. One bushel weighed 3734 pounds. Sample 9. Harvested July 18. 
Yield 220 pounds. Weight of one bushel, 2G.5 pounds. Yield per acre, 
14 bushels. 
Common White Oats .—One and one fourth bushels sown April 27, upon 
one-half acre. One bushel weighed 2934 lbs. Sample 10. Harvested 
August 9. Yield 463 lbs. Weight of one bushel 22 lbs. Yield per acre 
29 bushels. 
Potato Oats .—Seed imported from Scotland and furnished by Department 
of Agriculture at Washington. Eight quarts seed. Sown April 35, upon 
one-eighth of an acre. Sample 6. Harvested August 9. Yield by weight 
100 lbs. One bushel weighs 26.6 lbs. Yield per acre 25 bushels. 
These oats were all very seriously affected by the drouth, yet as the 
treatment was in all respects alike, except that the seed of the Potato oats 
was not weighed or sown quite as thick, the yield shows the relative value 
of the varieties for such a year as the past. The soil upon which they 
were grown was clay loam with clay subsoil, and was in a good state of 
cultivation. The following table gives the relative as well as actual product: 
Yield per 
acre. 
Weight of 
one bush. 
One lb. 
produced. 
Ramsdale Norway. 
23.6 bu. 
24.4 lbs. 
9. 0 lbs. 
White Norway. 
14.0 “ 
26.5 “ 
5.0 “ 
Surprise. 
11.6 “ 
26.3 “ 
3.7 “ 
Common. 
29.0 f - 
22.0 “ 
12.5 « 
Potato. 
25.0 “ 
26.6 
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CHEVALIER BARLEY. 
Seed imported from Scotland, by Department of Agriculture, as an ex¬ 
cellent variety for malting. Eight quarts sown April 25, upon one eighth 
of an acre. Sample 5. Harvested July 22. Yield, 84 pounds. One bushel 
weighs 44 1-2 pounds. Yield per acre 14 bushels. 
GRASS. 
The following experiments have been begun for the purpose of ascer¬ 
taining if very heavy seeding is more or less profitable than the common 
method of light seeding. 
Four adjacent plats of ground, containing one-fourtli of an acre each 
were sown April 18, to different quantities of grass seed—a mixture of equal 
parts, by measure, of clover and timothy. The severe drouth will doubt¬ 
less injure the accuracy of the results that might otherwise have been ob¬ 
tained from this trial, but it cannot at present be determined how great the 
injury will be. 
