Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1886
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205 Variety. Indian Egyptian Martin's A m b e r Diehl's M e d i t e r r a n e a n White Victoria Harris New B r u n s w i c k Welcome White E u s s i a Hutless Me I o n , , Canman Species. Wheat. Oats Bushels per acre. 14.5 19.0 22.0 27.0 32.5 16.0 47.5 46.0 44.0 25.0 19.0 24.0 Quality. Poor Fair Good Good Very g o o d . Very poor. Good Very g o o d . . Good. Good Poor .Fair «« «« «< «« Barley The White Victoria oat gives promise of being very valuable, the small yield being explainable on account of thin seeding. The seed was imported from Eussia by the Department of Agriculture. POTATO CULTURE. B Y T. F . HUNT. The object of this experiment was to determine the influence of the size of the potatoes used for seed on the yield and quality. The potatoes were divided into three divisions, comprising large, medium and small, and were cut into pieces having two "eyes" each. These were planted in rows 35 rods long, 5 to 10 rows being devoted to* a division. Three acres in all were used. The land was fall broken sod and though a comparatively even piece of land did not prove as desirable as was hoped. It is believed the results obtained with the early Ohio and Mammoth Pearl were the least influenced by external causes, the yield of the Beauty of Hebron being clearly affected by a row of trees. It would appear that the large potatoes as a whole give slightly the best results. The results in themselves are not positive, however, and are given • simply as a contribution to a further knowledge of the subject: LARGE. BUSHELS IN A Row RODS LONG. 36 MEDIUM. SMADD. 1st Quality 2d Quality 1st Quality 2d Quality 1st Quality 2d Quality 1.9 1.8 6.96 2.4 1.6 6.0 2.47 1.90 4.50 B e a u t y of H e b r o n Early Ohio Mammoth Pearl 1 20 0.4 1.0 .38 .70 MOISTURE IN SOIL. During a period of quite warm drouth in August, 1886. it was attempted to determine' the quantity of water in soil as affected by cultivation and by vegetation. Two samples of one-fourth of a cubic foot each—six inches square and twelve inches in depth—were carefully taken off the prairie soil of the University farm. The "cultivated soil" was at the edge of a plat of strawberries, the surface having been plowed and cultivated after the strawberries had been
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