Report of the Board of Trustees Volume 6 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...of ground for crops. It was divided into eight strips, each two rods wide, running north and south. The western strip was not plowed at all, out simply stirred with the cultivator; the second strip plowed as nearly as might be 3 inches deep; the third 5 inches; the fourth 7 inches; the fifth 9 inches; the sixth 11 inches; the seventh 11 inches, and trench plowed; the eighth 11 inches, and sub-soiled. Owing to some vexatious mistakes in planting that were not allowed for in gathering, the exact yield of the several strips cannot be determined. It was found, however, that the sub-soiled and trenchplowed strips produced the most, and the shallow-plowed strips the least. The half of the field plowed 7 inches deep'and less, yielded 72 bushels 15 lbs., whilst that plowed 9 inches deep and more, yielded 88 bushels 35 pounds. EXPERIMENTS WITH POTATOES. The seventy-five varieties of potatoes received from the Michigan Agricultural College, and planted last year, were replanted simply with a view to obtaining a renewal of the seed, the yield having been very small. They were planted mostly on sward land, on the lowest part of plot No. 2 south, and, generally speaking, yielded well, so that next year we can institute a comparison between varieties. The varieties of potatoes and corn were exhibited before the State Horticultural Society at Centralia, and at the meeting of the State.Board of Agriculture, and were awardod a medal by the latter body. EXPERIMENTS WITH BROOM CORN. The five acres planted in broom corn in 1871 were planted with the same varieties in 1872. The ground was plowed to a depth of 6 inches on the 23d of April, and the seed drilled Way 23d. The drill was a poor one, which made it difficult to perform the planting just as desired....