The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1889-02-07

were pu, under the pow and planted corn potatoes
barley hungarian and large variety Of forage crops vegetables
and fruits The crops grew fairly well through the summer but
injured entirely ruined by the excessively
wet weather and early the fail The circumstances
affected crops the State but especially
injured because gone upon the farm and gotten
so late in the season
We will take up now the lines OF work that have been
conducted the Station the past and short synopsis
Of the work done obtained each OF the i'm
portant lines Of investigation
The most important line of investigation with respect to fruit in
this State that viii Withstand the severity OF our
winters produce fruit of good quality and rpen before cold
weather The most hopeful field for trial seems to he IN the nus
fruits which endure their native country much severer
experience here In accordance with this plan
the Station secured and set out many Of the most promising Rus
fruits and OF the long known standard varieties with
them for comparison OF trees Of each kind plant
ed grapes two Of kind bush fruits ten Of kind and strawber
res fifty OF each kind The following number of varieties Of each
kind Of fruits has been planted:
30 apples 6 pears 6 pums 6 cherries so grapes 10 curran
gooseberres IL backberries 81 aspberres dewberes o.
strawberries
As the principal the testing of hardness Of these vare
half Of of the kinds has been covered protected
for the and the other half left exposed The old orchard
the place has been powed pned and used the past season for
experimenting by spraying with several different kinds OF poison
GUS solutions.
The work in this line has been confined to the testing different
varieties their eaness hardness producveness and the
quality the product would require much to give
here these varieties The following number of
rieties Of each kind tested
20 beans bee 30 corn II cucumbers muskmelon pas
nip 10 peas so potatoes pumpkin IA squash watermelon 80
grasses, 10 forage crops
As pastures Vermont grow poorer and the mid
drouhs severely felt the need of forage crops becomes
and Some crop which shall produce with
small of handabor large amount of fodder during
and early fall has become urgent necessity and the
has grown quite number of different plants which gave
promise of yielding the desired result Among them
may be mentioned Brazilian -four corn, barley, eosnte dhoura
vetches Hungarian English perennial rye pcky comfrey Jap
anese buckw6ea alfalfa and many of ensage
OF these promising barley Japanese buckwhea
some of the ensage corns and pcky eomfrey Alfalfa was
did well the first and looking finely when the snow
it winter killed. and the almost unanimous
opinion of those who tried that it not adapted to our
climate Some of the enase corns yielded wonderful returns
The cred cob produced at the rate OF thirty tons to the acre
these large they not only produced immense
weight but that weight contains large amount OF good feeding
material Judging from the results OF this seasons work. pck
comey worthy Of extended trial 1t is grown from roots
into pieces and set out hills the weeds being kept
by cuang between the with the horse hoe The
plant produces large broad leaves much resembling tobacco
which attain full in four five weeks and soon
growth starts up vigorously their place
The roots were set out very three cuttings
obtained during the averaging at the rate OF about three
per each cutting We expect next season to get
least four and probably five cuttings each OF which will be much
heavier than cutting this The roots are perennial and
inclined spread they remain in the original hills In
which they planted habeen claimed that stock do not
eat ON the trial and that learned afterwards great
objection to the plant the labor of cutting has to be done
by hand each hill separately.
PLANTING
Experiments designed find proper methods of pantng
tried with both and potatoes With corn the exp
ens were designed the different ways in which planting
may done with the Eclipse planter The rows were each
feet apart and the planted at distances IN the row
"a IL and inches apart The highest yields obtained
the 6nc and the 6nch planting The weight OF the
product than that from the 30 inch but the
yield the greater distance apart was much more than
that from the less.
different of cutting and planting potatoes were
tried the results Of which printed in bulletin No - OF the
Station from which appears that muchng when four inches high
produced considerably larger yield than other method and
the smallest yield obtained by dividing
question Of the nsoube phosphates the place
those that dissolved by suphurc acid has become quite
prominent During the past the Station made extended
experiments the of these nsoube phophates pota
and grass The experiment with was tried on very
light sandy Essex Junction. and the repeated
heavy cayey soil the University On the former land the ou
phoshaes gave much better returns than the nsoue as
would naturally be expected the sand furnishes but little of
the and vegetable acids to render soluble these
phospae On the heavy moist clay ground the nsoub phos
about the weight OF crop the soluble but
noticed that the proportion OF greater and the corn
rpened earlier where the soluble phosphates used