Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-01

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put pillow, planted potatoes OATS rye
barley hungarian and large variety of forage vegetables
and fruits The fairly well through the but
weather early fall
seriously affected all the State but especially
injured because had gone the farm and gotten
so late in the
We will take up the various lines of work that have been
conducted the Station the past and give short synopsis
of the work done and the results obtained each OF the more i'm
portant lines of investigation
The most important line of investigation with respect fruit in
this State find varieties that will withstand the severity of
weather The most hopeful field for trial lie in the Rus
fruits which endure in their native country much
experience here with this
the secured and set out of the most promising Rus
sm ~o sa wss
ed two of kind bush fruits ten of kind and srawbe
80 apples 16 pums 16 cherries so Is curran
strawberries
AS the principal idea testing
ties half Of most of the kinds has been covered protected
for the winter and the other half left exposed The old orchard
the place has been powed puned and used the past for
GUS solutions
confined testing of
varieties their arnes hardness producveness and the
quality of the product would require much space give
here all the notes these varieties The following number of
BEANS beets corn cucumbers muskmelon pars-
nip 10 80 potatoes pumpkin IA SQUASH watermelon 80
As pastures Vermont grow poorer the
outh severely felt the need forage crops becomes
and Some crop which shall produce with
small of handabo large amount of fodder during
and early fall has become urgent necessity and the
Station has grown quite number of different plants which gave
may mentioned Brazilian -four barley teosnte dhoua
veches Hungarian English perennial rye prky comfey Jap
OF these the most promising barley Japanese bucwhea
thirty throughout the and although it
did well the first and looking finely when the
opinion of those who tried that is not adapted to
climate Some of the enage yielded wonderful returns
The cred cob produced the rate thirty tons to the
perfect long Analysis shows that
era Of these large they not only produced immense
weight but that weight contains Of good feeding
material Judging from the results of this seasons work. pcky
into pieces and set out hills the weeds being kept
down by cuvatng between the with the horseshoe The
leaves which their full four five weeks
they cut growth starts vigorously their
during averaging the about three
at each cutting We expect next get at
heavier than any cutting this year. The roots perennial
not inclined to spread they remain in the original hills
which they planted has been claimed that stock do
like prcky comey Only animal out of herd refused
eat the first trial. and that learned afterwards great
objection the plant the labor cutting it has to be done
by hand each hill separately
Experiments designed find proper methods of planting
tried with both and potatoes With the expert
designed the different which planting
be done with the Eclipse planter The eacf
three feet and the planted distances the
&c. a. IL and inches apart The highest yields obtained
from the Inch and the 6nch planting The weight of the
product of the 6nch than that from the nc but the
yield the greater distance apart much than
that from the less
Fourteen different ways cutting and planting potatoes
tried the results of which printed bulletin No ID of the
Station which appears that mulchng when four inches high
produced considerably larger yield than other method
the smallest yield was obtained by dividing
The question of the nsoube phophates in the place
that have been dissolved by suhur acid has become quite
During the the Station made
nsoube phosphaes corn poa
toes and grass The experiment with tried
light sandy soil Essex Junction. and the repeated
heavy cayey soil the University On the former land the sou
BILE phophaes gave much better returns than the nsoube
naturally expected the sand furnishes but
xegeahle acids render ohe the