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broadcast and harrowed in. The soil was clayey loam, and had not: 
been under cultivation for some years previous, with the exception 
of F 16, whieh had been grown to corn in 1884 though no fertilizer 
had been applied. The following notes give the methods employed 
with results obtained from each plat. 
PLat F 16. Planted Sept. 25, 1884, to Clawson wheat in drills 18- 
inches apart, the seed being placed at inch distances in the rows. 
Vegetated Oct. 1. It was hoed twice during the season of 1885, and 
was ripe on July 18. The plants did not stool very well, 18 heads: 
being the largest number produced by any one plant. The panicles. 
were usually long and loose, and in most cases produced 16 or 17% 
spikelets, and averaged strikingly longer than those from which the: 
seed was produced. On July 24 the plat wascut. ‘The yield was as: 
follows: Straw 40 lbs. 4 ozs., grain 24 lbs. 12 ozs., or at the rate of 
405 Ibs. per acre of straw, and 8% bushels per acre of wheat. The 
object of the experiment was to see what results could be obtained by 
very thin seeding. The plat was fairly exposed on all sides, and 
notwithstanding the plants did well in the fall, they were badly win-. 
ter-killed. The effect was favorable in size of grain and length of 
panicle, both being superior to those grown in our average wheat. 
fields, but the result far from warrants adopting such a method as. 
practical or profitable in this climate. 
Prat F 17. Planted Sept. 25, 1884, to Clawson wheat after the or- 
dinary method of seeding as employed in this vicinity, viz: by 
drill, in rows seven inches apart, about one and a half inches. 
deep, and seeded at the rate of two bushels to the acre. Vegetated 
Sept. 30. Ripe July 20. The appearance of this plat late in fall 
was most excellent, and deteriorated in no manner all through the 
winter. During the growing season it appeared vigorous, and form-- 
ed a large number of heads resembling in every way those commonly 
seen in fields of Clawson wheat, being noticeably shorter than those 
of plat F 16, though the seed sown was from the same source. 1% to 
13 spikelets per head were most common, 15 or 16 being compara- 
tively rare. Yield: Straw 128 lbs., grain 87 lbs. 40zs., or at the rate: 
of 2560 lbs. straw per acre, and 293 bushels grain per acre. Of the 
four plats planted, this gave the best yield, and in every way pre-~ 
sented a superior appearance. 
Puat F 18. Planted Sept. 25, 1884, to alternate rows of Clawson: 
wheat and oats nine inches apart, the kernels of wheat being placed. 
six inches apart in the row, and the oats thickly strewn. Both wheat. 
and oats vegetated on Oct. 1, and grew well. The latter made a. 
vigorous growth but was killed by excessive frost before having at- 
tained sufficient foliage to act as a mulch for the wheat, for which 
purpose it was intended. Though at the beginning otf winter, the: 
wheat appeared strong and vigorous, the severity of the weather was: 
so great as to destroy all but a small portion of the plants. During 
the summer following the plat was hoed twice, and though the 
plants were few, as in F 16, the panicles and grains were much 
larger than in ordinary seeding. But 12 pounds of straw and 7 lbs.. 
8 ovs. of grain were harvested from the plat, or only a yield at the 
rate of 240 pounds of straw, and two and one-half bushels of grain 
per acre. The results gained from plats F 16 and F 18 seemed to. 


