216 REPORT OF THE FARM SUPERINTENDENT OF THE. 
Below is a synopsis of the work which is reported in the 
following pages: 
Grass plats and forage crops. - 
Potato experiments. 
Fertilizer experiment with corn. 
Corn in hills, drills and broadeast. 
Variety test of corn for fodder in this locality. 
Variety test of beets for fodder in this locality. 
Variety test of carrots for fodder in this locality. 
Fertilizer experiments with grass. 
Relative yields of four varieties of barley. 
Warm water for milch. cows. 
Subsoiling experiments. 
The manure platform. 
The lysimeter record for 1889. 
Notes on fluctuation in an unused well. 
Meteorology for 1889. 
GRASS PLATS AND FORAGE CROPS. 
The small grass plats have been continued as they were last 
season, save that where some have failed they have been replaced 
by seed of the same or another variety. | 
Last year the festucas presented so varied an appearance that 
seeds were saved and sown from the different forms. These have 
grown well for their kind, but none haye shown any tendency to 
panicle. 
The number of different grasses grown has been increased the 
past season by seed from various sources (see “Gifts to the — 
Station’’), so that there have been thirty-one families represented by 
sixty-five species and varieties not including a few which may prove 
to vary too little from the type to be regarded even as varieties. 
While keeping so many varieties separate and clean costs much 
time and care, yet it is fully repaid by the object lesson which it 
constitutes to all who have interest enough to look at them. Here 
one can see the grasses with which he is familiar growing beside 
others which he has never regarded as worthy of cultivation, but 
which, under like conditions, are equally good or perhaps better. - 
A careful examination of these plats might well be the first step 
towards improving the fields and pastures of many farms in any 
county of the State. 
