C Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station. 35
_ AGRONOMY · i
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_ _ BY Gsoaon Rosmrvrs.
· The following is the report of the work of the Depart-
ment of Agronomy for the year 1914:
» Experiments With Crops. .
Corn. The experimental work with corn consists of
variety tests, breeding for increased yield and cultivation
experiments. The results of four years of cultivation ex-
periments indicate that cultivation beyond what is necessary
to keep down weeds is not proiitable or necessary to conserve
moisture. These statements are applicable to soils of good
physical condition.
Wheat. A continuation of variety tests. The poorer
varieties are being eliminated and varieties adapted to Ken-
tucky conditions are being propagated and distributed in
the State. About 100,000 bushels of Jersey Fultz, one of
the best varieties tried, were available for seed this year.
Attempts are being made to improve the best varieties by
selection.
Oats. Continuation of tests of a large number of strains
of spring oats. All but a few of the best have been
eliminated. A test of winter oats gives strong promise of a
strain that will withstand the severest of Kentucky winters.
This strain is being tried in six different places in the State
" with the idea of introducing it in the State.
Barley. Similar work is being done with barley. Two of
the best varieties have been kept for propagation and intro-
duction in the State.
Soy-Beans. Experiments in cultivation and variety tests.
Cultivation tests show that just as large yields of hay and
better yields of seed are obtained by planting in rows and
cultivating, as compared with drilling broadcast. Out of a