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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872
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117 LIST OF VARIETIES —Continued. No. 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 VARIETIES. Tubers of good size. Western Red White Apple White Chili White Mountain , White Peachblow White Rock White Spirit (all large tubers) No. 1 Unnamed No. 2 Unnamed Breese's Peerless 28 17 28 30 28 22 15 23 19 169 26 20 69 55 29 70 12 44 14 995 ROOT CROPS. On plat 3 north we attempted to grow one acre each of beets (white sugar), rutta bagas, parsnips, carrots and white turnips, but failed either to get the seed to germinate, as in the case of the parsnips and carrots, or were delayed by drought, and cut off by insects or frost in other cases. The failure was nearly complete. HILLS AND DRILLS—WIDE AND CLOSE PLANTING. On plats 4 and 5 north we attempted to compare planting corn in hills and drills. A t the north seeds were planted—an acre each, planted 3 feet apart between rows ; but one in hills, three kernels in a hill; the other drilled, one kernel to a foot. On the next the hilling arid drilling was repeated, but a1 a distance of 3|- feet between rows and hills, maintaining the amount of a kernel to a foot in thf drilled rows, and an additional kernel for each foot between rows in the hills. On the next tier a distance of 4 feet was taken, then 4}/2, and finally 5 feet. The corn was planted as follows : The six northernmost acres, May 20th ; the next two, May 20th ; the last ten, May 23d. I t was harrowed June 3d, cultivated the 15th, thinned the 16th and cultivated Jane 26th, July 8th, and July 20th; husked December 10th to 22d. The ground was very unequal in its dryness and arable condition-5-the south ends in an ordinary season would probably have been too wet for cultivation. The chinch bug did a good deal of mischief, and hardly anything definite can be made of thefigures, which are as follows : Drills. 1 kernel Hills lkern'lfor to a foot. each foot. Planted rows 3 feet apart. 4 5 Total 1, 326 628 596 738 1,336 lbs. " " " " 1, 081 853 618 956 1,326 lbs. " " " " 4,624 " 4,836 " Most of the work on the preceding experiments was done and conducted by C. W. Silver, of Cham. pai£n county, and Q.lf. Gridley, of Lake, both of whom proved themselves intelligent, industrious and efficient workers. In addition to these experiments, the following made and reported by E. L. Lawrence, head farmer, will be of interest: EXPERIMENTS WITH POTATOES. Made by E. L. Lawrence, Head Farmer on " Stock Farm." The variety used was the Peach Blow, planted in rows 3J feet apart, and 21 inches apart in the row and two peices in a place except as otherwise noted. The areas planted all equal:
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