The Common Scotch is a barley that was imported from Scotland by Alexander Findlay, of this city. The seed was given to us in 1872, and we have raised it continually since that time. He said it was a variety that was thought very highly of in Scotland, and he thought it would prove a more than usually excellent variety here. It has averaged during the last eight years, 36.6 bushels to the acre. That is an average of 12 7 bushels in favor

of the Manshury.

Saxonian barley we have raised for the last nine years, with an average yield of 35.4 bushels to the acre. The Probstier barley we did not raise in 1873, 1874, 1875 and 1876. We raised it two years before that and three years since, with an average yield of 42.2 bushels per acre.

This shows very favorably for the Manshury barley, it yielding more than either of the other varieties, and consequently where one is desirous of raising barley it is certainly profitable to invest in it.

Now in regard to oats, last year's experience precisely corroborated the experience of previous years. The White Schonen gave us 96.2 bushels per acre. The average for five years has been 80.5. We have had the White Waterloo only three years. This year it yielded precisely the same as the White Schonen, but during 1878 the yield was five bushels less, and during 1877 the yield was three and one-half bushels less, so that during the three years we have had them both under cultivation the White Schonen has yielded nearly three bushels an acre more than the other. They both seem to be exceedingly valuable varieties. The indications are that the White Schonen is the better variety. gentleman in the state discarded the White Schonen oats and is raising the White Dutch oats, and while he is a very successful man in his business, I think that this time he has made a change for the worse. During the last year the White Dutch have yielded very much less than the White Schonen.

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In corn, the old varieties that we have raised so many years White Australian, Cherokee and Yellow Dent - have given fair results. I think this is the first year that we have cultivated the White Australian that it has not yielded at least as much as any

of the other varieties. This year it yielded 80.1, while Yellow Dent yielded 81.5 per acre. The Cherokee yielded 83.2. This yield is in favor of the Yellow Dent rather than the White Australian, because the White Australian requires a little more cultivation, being a smaller variety, and needs to be planted more closely and is not as easy a variety to husk; that is, being a hard corn, rather than a soft one. It is a flint corn.

The variety called Lysaght we obtained from Mr. William Lysaght, of Belleville, several years ago. It is a large variety and he thought very highly of it. We obtained it for the purpose of seeing if it was as valuable a variety as those we were already raising. In three years trial it has not yielded as much as any of the other varieties. The Cherokee has yielded 86.1 bushels, that being the least of the three varieties we have cultivated so long, and that is 8.3 bushels more than the Lysaght has yielded during the same period.

Mr. Hayden instituted an experiment to test the comparative productiveness of four varieties of flint corn. This, I think, was done because Mr. Wood, of Baraboo, thought the Waushakum was one of the best, and perhaps the best and the earliest flint corn raised. It ripened later than any of the other varieties, the White Australian and New England and Compton's Early. The New England is the common eight rowed yellow corn, sometimes called Yankee eight-rowed flint corn. The plats on which these varieties were grown were small plats. Compton's Early yielded 63.5 bushels to the acre, White Australian 75.4; while the yield of White Australian in the field this year was 80.1 bushels. The New England gave 61.8, while the Waushakum gave much less than either of the others, and ripened ten days later than the latest of the other varieties.

With potatoes, the Snowflake, taking quality and yield together, we think stands ahead. The Manhattan, Centennial, and Bliss's Triumph all yielded a little more. But the Manhattan is not a good potato; it is decidedly poor. Bliss's Triumph is a good potato, but not as good as the Snowflake; and the Centennial is a fair potato. Neither of them are potatoes for which one would be willing to discard the Snowflake, even though it does not yield quite as much.

This year we are to try an experiment with a variety which I obtained this winter at Auroraville, called Jordan's Prolific, which, it is claimed, will yield about twice as much as the Snowflake. While it is not quite as good as the Snowflake, it certainly is a most excellent potato. If it proves to be all that is claimed for it in the vicinity of Berlin, it will certainly be a very valuable addition to the potatoes that we now have in cultivation.

We have two or three new varieties in cultivation, but we have not tried them sufficiently to know whether they are of any value

or not.

The Ruby potato, which has been spoken of so highly for the last three or four years in the east, with us gave a poor yield 97.5 bushels per acre- and I certainly do not consider the quality of ours good. It is not to be compared with the Snowflake or the Early Rose.

We raised the Beauty of Hebron for the first time this year. The quality is put down as good. I tried all these varieties myself, but we have not raised them enough to know what they will yield. We will raise enough next year to know something about their productiveness. The quality is good, but it is not as good as the Early Rose, nor nearly as good as the Snowflake. It is not as good as another variety we had in cultivation last year, the Dunmore, which is an excellent potato, and the quality of it, I should think, fully equal to the Snowflake.

Mr. Sloan-I would like to ask if your grain lodges?

Prof. Daniells -- One or two varieties of oats, as you will see by the report, did not stand up; it was necessary to cut them with a scythe. If no storm comes about the time of their ripening, they will usually stand up. They seldom fall down without a driving storm.

Mr. Sloan-Does lodging affect the yield?

Prof. Daniells It depends, of course, upon the time when they lodge. If they lodge early after blossoming, that is, before they are quite thoroughly filled out, it certainly does; and another thing which influences the yield, if you allow them to get fully ripe before harvesting the waste is much greater when they are lodged than when standing.

Mr. Sloan-How about winter wheat?

Prof. Daniells-It does not lodge to any extent. The Fultz wheat has an unusually stiff straw.

Judge Bryant- Mr. Dean told me it did not make any dif ference how much the yield was with the Fultz, it always stood up, but the Clawson laid down.

Prof. Daniells-I have seen fields of Clawson wheat that would yield thirty-five or forty bushels to the acre where there was not, as far as I saw, a grain of it lodged.

Mr. Babbitt I notice you have an unusually good yield. How about the amount of land that is cultivated?

Prof. Daniells- The amount of land that is cultivated in these wheat experiments is one acre for each variety, half an acre for each variety of oats, and there is something over an acre of each variety of corn.

Mr. Chipman-I noticed in your fertilizers there was a good deal of difference in the yield. What was the cost of the fertilizers compared to the cost of stable manure?

Prof. Daniells-Stable manure probably costs less than any one of them. I do not know in regard to the cost of these different manures. The experiment is for the purpose of finding out what ingredients the soil is in need of, rather than to find out the cost of the different manures. Stable manure contains, besides the organic matter which is present and which is of value in its decomposition, the three mineral ingredients that are necessary in the growth of plants, and about in the proportion in which plants need them: phosphoric acid, and nitrogen, and potash; so that stable manure is a complete fertilizer; that is, it contains all the ingredients that are required by plants. You will see in the next experiment nitrate of soda was used; that was taken simply for the nitrogen, to see what the growth would be without the two other elements, potash and phosphoric acid, being put on.

Peruvian guano contains nitrogenous matter, principally in the form of ammonia, in larger proportions than the other ingredients. Hard wood ashes contain potash. Then we put on potassium chloride. That contains potash in another form, and we put them on in such quantities that in each case there should be the same amount of potash per acre.

Superphosphate of lime we put on by itself. That is used for the phosphoric acid.

The object in these experiments is not to get at the relative cost of these different fertilizers, but to find out what is going to produce the best results when applied to the soil, by allowing the plants to analyze the soil for us, by taking certain plats and putting nothing on, taking other plats and manuring them with these special manures, and putting stable manure on others, that containing the ingredients wanted by plants in just about the proportions in which it is wanted, so that it is what we call a complete fertilizer, and comparing the results on these different plats, not to find out which is the cheaper manure, but to find out what the soil is in need of.

Mr. Sloan-Do not these experiments show that none of these fertilizers are of any value?

Prof. Daniells-The experiments do not even show that at the present time.

Mr. Sloan-Is not there an average yield on the unfertilized plats each year?

Prof. Daniells—In some cases the unfertilized plats have so far yielded the most. The experiment does not show anything, in my opinion, at the present time; no conclusions can be drawn from them. I think three years is not sufficient time in which to cultivate the land and draw any conclusions. Take plat four, for instance. In 1877, none of the plats had any manure. Follow. ing the years right along, in 1877, plat four gave 420 pounds of ears, and 392 pounds of stalks; in 1878, 690 pounds of ears and 414 pounds of stalks; in 1879, 501 pounds of ears and 359 of stalks. In each of the three years that plat has had precisely the same cultivation.

Is not that more than an average yield of the

Prof. Daniells-I should presume likely it is. It is certainly a considerably larger yield than some of the other plats have given. Now during the three years that ground has had the same treatment, it never had any manure; what conclusion can we draw from that?