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101 Table B.

Yield. No. Variety. jPart of ! an acre. Lbs. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10

Bushels per acre. 26.66 46.66 38.33 30.00

121.66 20.00 40,00 8.33 36.66 21.66 56.66 88.66 45.00

11 12 13 14 ; 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23

Peach Blow Rough and Keady.., Orono Calico Nameless No. 5 Snowball Napoleon Davis Seedling Massasoit Nameless No. 4. White Mountain.... Early White Nameless No. 2 Early Indiana........ Nameless No. 1 DelNel(?) Early Goodrich Flake Early Doasman Early Don Seedling Rock Early Sovereign Nameless No. 3 ,

1-100

1-200

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16 28 23 18 73 12 24 5 22 13 34 53 27 68 33 35 14 36 14 16 25

103.33 55.00 58.33 23.33 60.00 46.66 26.66 26.66 26.66 41.66

The above 23 varieties were planted the 23d of May, on low, black prairie soil^-were plowed three times, hoed once, and bugs kept off by Paris Green, applied twice. Distance of rows, three feet 10 inches, and 18 inches in the row. Two pieces were planted, of the usual size, in each hill. To the excessive heat and drought must be attributed the meagre yield. FARM EXPERIMENTS.

To HON. EMORY COBB, President of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University : SIR—At your suggestion made at the last meeting of the Executive Committee, I have prepared an outline, of a programme of farm experiments, together with an estimate of expenses for seeds and labor, witti the expectation, however, that the Board of Trustees will alter and amend, aud perhaps reduce both in number and extent. Members of the Board should fully endorse the plan here laid down. It is quite probable that better advice and further information, together with season circumstances and. accident, might absolutely require a material modification of it before the time had arrived to put it in operation. I have put the Farm Experiments under seven heads, namely : 1, the Cereals; 2, the Clovers and Grasses; 3, the Industrial and Commercial Plants; 4, Roots; 5, Vegetables; 6, Manures and Fertilizers; 7,Feeding. And first of the cereals, in the order of the alphabet, I name Barley. Though grown far north in this country and much further south in southern Europe and northern Africa, as a winter crop, however, barley, in this latitude, is a very doubtful one. Being the earliest of the Cereals, it is first attacked b> chinch-bugs, and from some unexplained causes, on our rich soils, it is very liable to rust, blight* and fall down before maturity. For the purpose, then, of trying to succeed with Barley—and if we do not succed, to learn the reason why —I propose employing seed obtained from abroad to s o w One acre 4-rowed Barley. One acre 6-rowed Barley. Buckwheat is also a very doubtful crop, partly, it is believed, because it is sown too late in the season to germinate successfully. It is proposed to try one acre each of two leading varieties, and anticipate the usual time of sowing by one or two weeks. I put down these— One acre common Buckwheat. One acre silver-hulled Buckwheat. Next in order, but first in importance, is Corn, for which I have laid down the following rather liberal p l a n : 1. One-half an acre each of the large varieties from South America, introduced by the way of France—the Caragua and the Cureo. The Caragua is quite unlike any variety we cultivate, and is, where known, greatly preferred for sailing. The Curco is a giant kind; and if we should succeed in crossing it with home grown ones we might invigorate and enlarge our own varieties by an infusion of new blood from abroad. 2. To obtain from a single acre the largest possible yield, and in order to do so, spare neither manure, labor, nor watchfulness. 3. In a patch of five acres, to give every alternate eight or ten rows deep and thorough cultivation from the start, to be continued up to full maturity of the plants, and giving the other alternate rows, of an equal number, the common cultivation of the country, and "laying b y " at the