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Pibsen at the side. In front of the trough one foot above the 
floor is a door two feet high, as long as the trough, swinging on 
hinges at the top. Cleats on the plank at each end of the trough 
‘serve as stops, to prevent the door swinging in further than 
enough to expose the trough. A large wooden bolt attached to 
the outside of this door serves to fasten the door open or shut. 
A perspective drawing, on a larger scale than that of the ground 
plan, helps to explain this arrangement and the drawings serve to 
_ complete the description of the pens. 
This barn was in such a condition that immediate repair was 
necessary, and the pens were built with the intention of con- 
ducting experiments with swine similar to those now begun with 
poultry and cattle. 
SORGHUM. 
- Kighty-two samples of sorghum seed and two of millet were 
planted this season. Fifteen were selected from the 165 samples 
(including about 100 varieties) grown last year, ten of them being 
the most valuable varieties for this latitude. Of the new varie- 
ties grown, for the first time, nine came from Java, two were 
received from Calcutta, seven from Algiers and three from Turkey. 
Thirty-three samples came from the Department of Agriculture. 
A new variety of millet, received from Japan as sorghum, gave 
promise of considerable value. There was a large crop of good 
~ seed, although it was impossible to determine the yield on 
account of the English sparrows which infest this neighborhood. 
This variety will be tried in the field another season. The other 
variety of millet (from China) proved too late for a reliable crop. 
None of the new sorghums from Java or Turkey proved of any 
value for sugar or syrup. Those from Turkey yield a good crop 
of seed, but mature too late on the soil here. The only one of 
the varieties from Algiers that is valuable for syrup matures too 
_ -late for this latitude. The soil upon which the sorghums were 
_ grown is a rich clay loam and favorable to a large growth but 
slow maturity. The observations taken on the crop are con- 
densed in the following table. The rows, from No. 1 to No. 19 
inclusive, were planted May ninth; No. 71, May sixteenth ; No. 72, 
May twenty-third; and all the others May fifteenth. 
‘Those numbered 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 72, are the only 
varieties that are to be recommended for syrup in this part of the 
State (although many others, only valuable for seed and fodder, 
