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prevented our Soja bean plants from ripening their seed, and hence 
the variety upon which we founded quite favorable reports became 
lost to us. The variety this year, although the dry seed looked the 
same as last year’s seed, vet gave us a low, little leafy and late plant. 
It seems useless to speak well or ill of this plant until the various 
forms which are sold under this general name of Soja bean shall 
receive more specific nomenclature. . 
Corn, as A Forage Puan. 
In our trials we desired to ascertain the forage weights of different 
kinds of corn, and to make a comparison between maize and sor- 
ghum. The fertilizer used was the same quantity for all, 400 pounds 
superphosphate per acre. The plats one-twentieth of an acre: 
Yield, green 
forage, lbs. 
O-2. Waushakum flint ‘corn, in hills...) 2... 45) ce. eee 1620 
@. 4, Waushakim ‘flint;corn, in’ hills. 1. .20).gea eee 16394 
Oon. New England Pop,:in drills* 22 .*. 4 php eee 1106 
O28. Evergreen Sweet; in drillg.a 30602. 24 os em 795 
O or Waushakum: Flint,in drills..2 222.5. suteseeeene 1001 
lO Minnésota Dent; in ‘drille.'.<sen se ee 1057 
C 2 and C 4 had been heavily fertilized in 1882, C 2 received 144 
cords farm-yard manure and fifty pounds fertilizer per plat, and U 
4 forty pounds fertilizer per plat, C 7, 8,9 and 10 received twenty 
pounds fertilizer each in 1882 and 1883, the crop of 1882 being vari- 
eties of corn, that of 1883 potatoes. These four plats only are, there- 
fore, fit subjects for comparison. The larger growing corns were in 
drills forty-four inches apart, about twelve kernels to a foot; the 
pop corn in drills twenty-two inches apart, and about twelve kernels 
toatoot. The yields per acre, for the three years, were, 


1882. 1883. 1884, 
Sound corn; Potatoes, bush. per acre; Green forage Aug. 19; 
bush. per acre. merch. and unmerch. tons per acre. 
ASU A( es eee 49 .0' 323. 9° 11.06 
SS seat Wi 27. 8° TAME Os 1.09 
A ag MAS oe bev 35. 2° 1918: 10.01 
U ALLUDS A Set 44 3° . 182.38 10.57 
1. Early Dent; scarcely merchantable on account of unripeness. 
_ 2. Sibley’s Pride of the North; ripe and in good condition. 
3. Chester Co. Mammoth; quite ripe and in fair condition. 
4. Improved King Philip; ripe and in good condition. 
5. White Star Potatoes, 162.3 bush. merchantable. Whole potatoes as seed. 
6. White Star Potatoes, 152.1 bush. merchantable. Single eyes, cut deep. . — 
ee White Star Potatoes, 159.5 bush. merchantable. Single eyes, cut half deep. 
White Star Potatoes, 110.5 bush. merchantable. Single eyes, cut shallow. 
'*Rows half distance, or twenty-two inches. 
