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Wisconsin Agricultural Experimental Association / Sixth annual report of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Association : Madison Wis., February 6, 7, 1908. Address of president, secretary's report with papers and addresses given by members of the association and others interested in progressive agriculture
(1908)

Moore, R. A.
Experiment no. 9. Barley smut,   pp. 136-138 PDF (561.1 KB)


Page 136


Sixth Annual Report of tke
RErlOP.T BrANKI. EXPETiIMENT No. S.
Soy Beans.
IN\ amn of exper'lmenter....
A; me f xpe mete ...............................
P. 0 ....        ; County ........ ; State.
1. Date of planting soy heans.........................
2. Character of soil.................................
3. What crop had been grown the previous vear? .........
4. Was the land used, fall or spring plowed? .............
5. Give your method of planting.....................
6. How long after planting were beans first noticeable? ....
.   ..   ..  ...   .......  ......   ....   ......... ............. ...........
......... .................. ......
>. Give your method of cultivation...................
X. Did you try a few square rods for forage? .............
9. How many pounds of green forage did you cut from a
square rod ?..................................
10. How many pounds of cured hay did you get from a
square rod ?..................................
11. Did the stock eat the green and cured forage readily ?....
12. What kind of stock did vou feed it to? ...............
1o. Did the beans left for seed ripen evenly? ..............
14. Date of harvesting?
15. Manner of harvesting .............................
1 . Method of thlreshing ............................
17. Yield per acre of marketable beans...................
18. lid you use any bacteria-laden soil for inoculation pur-
poses ? ....................................
19\. Were nodules noticeable on the roots of the sov beans at
any ti ne during tbh growing period where such soil
was used?
29'). Were they noticeable where the soil was not used? .....
21. Date of sending report............................
22. Give in a general way your opinion of soy beans as a seed
and forage plant for Wisconsin....................
EXPEIIImENT No. 9.
Blarley Smut.
I ain aix elms to have a test for the eradication of barley
smut made bv members of the Experiment Association. For
seoveral vears we have labored to find out an effectual remedy
and it wes il;t until 1.906 that we succeeded.
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