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The comparison between the maize and the sorghum is between. 
equal plantings; the sorghum, however, germinated poorly, while the 
maize germinated well. Through oversight the missing seed were not 
counted. We herce have a comparison extremely unfavorable to the 
sorghum, even under the assumed circumstance. Indeed, sorghum for 
fodder will do better when planted far more thickly in the row than 
corn. 
The analyses of these forage plants gave the following results : 
Whole plant. 
Southern Early Am- 
White Corn. berSorghums: ' 
oe eS a oN ee oles 81.46 75.04 
IEEE B NE 18s hg oars o's eG, 0 ule’ ob enele o/b otae TE6 .69 
Reta OL QD) oe seo Yet dial efe oan ewe 1.02 1.03 
MMs ee, Lo cleo de a oe cieim Y's 0 erates 5.98 5.81- 
UMM EV AGU 5 5 '<)5 cis cksce ec vee k etek On aoe nieoe 9.73 17.03 
PPR OUNOLPGXITACL).s ci. y'sis'ac) seas co eae eh ves . 70 . 40 


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If we calculate the yield of albuminoid per acre, we have 326.6 
pounds per acre in the corn crop, and 233.2 pounds for the sorghum. 
In plat KE. nine corn and sorghum were planted together, three ker- 
nels of corn and six kernels of sorghum, in hills forty-two by forty-four 
inches apart. ‘The germinatious were poor. While one thousand and 
twenty-six kernels of corn were planted, but seven hundred and seventy- 
five grew; of two thousand and fifty-two kernels of sorghum, but one 
thousand six hundred and twenty-one grew. ‘The yield was, actual, 
one thousand pounds corn, two hundred and forty-seven pounds sor- 
ghum forage. Total per acre, 12.47 tons corn and sorghum forage. 
Calculating the missing hills on the same ratio of. yield, we may 
figure one thousand three hundred and twenty-three pounds corn 
fodder, and three hundred and twelve pounds of sorghum forage, 
total one thousand six hundred and thirty-five pounds, certainly not a 
bad showing for a meslin crop, but through the circumstances of the 
season far from satisfactory as an experiment. 
In plat EK. thirteen we had trial of the Soja bean, planted May 18, 
in drills forty-four inches apart, four beans to the foot, except in two 
of the nine rows, from lack of seed. The yield of dried forage was 
two hundred and eighty-six pounds, or 2.86 tons of Soja hay per acre. 
The analysis of the Soja bean, whole plant, as gathered September 
26, the beans formed, but in the milk was as below: 
; f Fresh state. Dry. 
Detter cia i's obo ¥ es eo onsets PR stat Pode aig ium eunce e 70-41 Paks 
oy TESTS REGIS i el esa a ec tere te ee he 2.580) 8.71 
Albuminoid (N.x 6. 25) Be rs fi a ao etigu ahs Rive 5s 040 oe 2.20 7.44 
NET EYRL IS hee ia Voinby ss Greet ois nels «Cadi 'c Wis sharers ae 7.93 26.80 
aa PLING Wie Mat eelit ns mitted: inde sialein nate poaans ¢>0 16.01 54.11 
‘at ON as 2H Ti atc J a A Ce a ae ae 87 2.94 


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