NOTES FROM SUB-STATIONS.

L. B. Custer, Highland county.-Soil, sandy; underlaid with yellow limestone clay. Was in pasture seven years. In corn in 1886. Plowed seven inches deep March 15th. Harrowed twice. Dragged twice. Sowed with drill and 100 pounds phosphate per acre. Barley and Kansas Hybrid.-Can not account for the smut on these and Welcome. White Russian in the same field had none.

L. E. Emery, Henry county.-Soil (for Badger Queen) a clay loam; creek bottom; formerly a vegetable garden. Plowed to a depth of eight inches April 11th; well pulverized with a fine-tooth harrow; sowed broadcast and harrowed in. Was lodged and tangled badly. Think this variety better for high land or land not too rich. Black Tartarian: Part of the soil same as for Badger Queen, and part hill; yellow clay; had been in corn, with manure applied. Plowed and seeded as Badger Queen. Laid loose in the measure, hence the light weight. Do not like this variety.

A. G. Felten, Huron county.-Soil clay loam; corn stubble. Plowed six inches deep April 13th; harrowed; sowed with Mason drill.

Geo. Finsler, Wayne county.-Black, sandy soil, second bottom. Timothy sod plowed for corn in 1886. Plowed for oats April 12th, to a depth of five inches; dragged; sowed broadcast, dragged in. Black Russian: Grain was nice, and weighed five pounds to the bushel more than ordinary oats in sand field. Early Dakota, a little was down. Grain plumper than any other sort.

A. Graham, Seneca county.-Soil a fertile, rather light clay loam, which has been under cultivation for three years. For Early Prize Cluster, plowed eight inches deep April 8th; harrowed and sowed broadcast. For Clydesdale, plowed eight inches deep April 12th; harrowed and sowed broadcast.

J. P. Jones, Ashland county.-Gravel soil, corn stubble. Plowed April 1 eight inches deep; harrowed, rolled and seeded with Champion drill. Badger Queen: Straw too weak or rich ground; all lodged before filling. Rust Proof: The straw is stiffer; it stands up better, and think it a more plrofitable variety to sow than Badger Queen. Jno. M. Kramer, Mercer county.-Soil black; had been in wheat two years; manured when thought necessary. Plowed about the 30th of March six to eight inches deep. Harrowed and sowed by hand.

G. S. Lowry, Wyandot county.-Soil a light clay loam. For Hopetoun, clover sod plowed for corn 1886. Smoothed the land with a two horse cultivator, and harrowed three times. For State of N. Dakota, in wheat in 1885, and buckwheat in 1886. Plowed six inches deep April 12th; harrowed twice and rolled once.

W. E. Lowry, Wyandot county.-Soil new, having been broken twice for corn. Yellow, sandy. Plowed seven inches deep April 16th. Henderson's Clydesdale, a very good oat to yield and grows rank. Kansas Hybrid, a very good oat, but does not yield 8 well as some others.

Geo. Schulte, Ashland county.-Soil a black gravel; was in timothy and clover sod, plowed and planted to corn in 1886. Plowed about seven inches deep; harrowed and drilled in oats.

S. S. Sheets, Stark county.-Soil a gravelly loam. Plowed in November, 1885, and planted in corn May, 1886, well enriched with barnyard manure. Plowed about April 14th, 1887, to a depth of eight inches. Harrowed, dragged and drilled seed in shallow. Badger Queen: Think straw too tender for northern Ohio. Yankee Prolific: Think it profitable to grow for feeding.

G. Whitmore, Wayne county.-Soil a clay loam, slightly mixed with gravel. Was an old timothy meadow, manured and plowed in 1886, and put in beets. Plowed about six inches deep April 21st; barrowed once, then twice more April 27th; rolled and drilled with Hoosier drill.

OATS.-TABLE VI.-VARIETIES TESTED AT SUB-STATIONS.

John M. Kramer..

OATS-TABLE VII.-RATE OF SEEDING AND OF YIELD PER ACRE OF VARIETIES AT SUB-STATIONS.

EXPERIMENTS WITH CORN.

The experiments in the cultivation of corn were conducted along the lines projected in plans of the work previously described. The chief divisions of the work were as follows:

I. COMPARATIVE TEST OF VARIETIES.

II. PLANTING AT DIFFERENT DEPTHS AND ON DIFFERENT
DATES.

The soil is a clay loam, and only moderately fertile. It has been in corn successively for six years, and has received in that time three applications of horse manure, at the rate of ten to twelve tons each application. The manure was comparatively fresh at the time of applying it. The last of these applications of manure was made for this crop of corn, the manure being applied during late winter and plowed under. The plowing was done the first week in April. The Gilpin riding plow was used, and the depth of plowing was 81 to 9 inches. The ground broke up in excellent condition. On the 15th and 16th of April the ground was harrowed with the Acme harrow four to six times, the number depending upon the friability of the soil. On the 17th and 18th there was a heavy rain, 1.65 inches, and on the 22d and 23d another of 2.09 inches; over half an inch more fell later in the month. There was more or less rain on seven of the first ten days of May; but by the 14th the ground was sufficiently dry for planting, and it was done on this date for the fertilizer work. The remainder of the planting for cultural experiments, distribution of the seed, etc., was done on the 20th of the month. During the four days next following the 20th there was a precipitation of 2.71 inches. The next heavy rain was on the 1st and 2d of June, when 1.28 inches rain fell. There were then two days of fair followed by five of rainy weather, during which there was a precipitation of 3.74 inches, 2.42 inches of it falling on the 7th; this was much the heaviest rain of the spring and summer of 1887.

At this time the long drought began. Although rain fell on twenty five of the eighty-three days next following the 9th (to Aug. 31st), the total rain-fall

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