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? inches. Oct. 24: Plants weak and feeble. May 15: Ditto 6 
inches. 
In this plat, the best results were received from the 24 inch 
depth, the plants being stronger than any other depth, and suffer- 
ing less from winter killing in proportion to vegetations, than the 
lesser or greater. 
B PLat VEGETATIONS. 


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On Dec. 1, 1884, and May 15, 1885, the following conditions were 
noted in B plat :— 
+ inch. Dec. 1: Broadly spreading. The entire plant usually 
above the surface, even exposing the root. Dwarfish but vigorous. 
May 15: Strong and healthy. 
4 inch. Dec. 1: Spreading. Roots not so frequently exposed. 
Vigorous. May 15: Ditto preceding. #3, 1, 14, 2, 24, 3, 4and5 
inches present no striking differences, all being stout and vigorous 
both at the beginning of winter and late in spring. The per cent- 
age of winter killing is small, as can be seen by referring to the above 
table. The 6 and 7 inch rows produced plants of a rather weakly 
growth in the fall, but by May 15 they had grown quite vigorous, 
At the period of bloom but httle difference could be noted in the 
plants at the different depths, and in the abundance of heads. No 
harvest was made, owing to the destruction of the immature heads 
by English sparrows. Asthe plats were not well covered with snow 
but occasionally during the winter, they were more subject to win- 
ter-killing than they would have been had it been otherwise. Plat 
A was especially subject to occasional warm southern winds, and to 
all sunshine, hence the winter-killing can be easily accounted for. 
Plat B was protected from much sunshine and warm winds, by the 
wooded ravine, hence it was less subject to changes than A plat. 
Other things being equal, conclusions seem to substantiate the wis- 
dom of planting our wheat at a depth of from one and one half to 
two inches, the fall results at these depths being most satisfactory, 
while the tendency to thrive during winter seems as well if not bet- 
ter adapted to these depths than to greater or lesser ones. 
PLAT EXPERIMENTS WITH WHEAT. 
Four plats of one-twentieth acre each were fitted for wheat in the 
usualmanner. Fertilizer at the rate of 400 lbs. per acre was applied 
