Report of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations . acteristic buckwheat shape but smallseeds. The triangular surfaces of the hull are more convex thanordinary buckwheat and are somewhat roughened. A few dozenseeds were obtained from a near-by rancher and sown June 7. Someseed was ripened. This variety seems to possess no advantages overthe one above noted and does not produce so much grain. GRAIN HAY. All of the grain which was badly lodged or otherwise unfit to besaved for seed was made into hay. It was cured on pole racks sothat there would be no question about getting a good quality of
Report of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations . acteristic buckwheat shape but smallseeds. The triangular surfaces of the hull are more convex thanordinary buckwheat and are somewhat roughened. A few dozenseeds were obtained from a near-by rancher and sown June 7. Someseed was ripened. This variety seems to possess no advantages overthe one above noted and does not produce so much grain. GRAIN HAY. All of the grain which was badly lodged or otherwise unfit to besaved for seed was made into hay. It was cured on pole racks sothat there would be no question about getting a good quality of June 13, 14, and 15, 10 acres of rented land was seeded to oatsfor hay. All but a small portion of this area had been in potatoes* the preceding two years. The seed bed preparation consisted of disk-ing once and then cross harrowing. The seed was then drilled at therate of 75 pounds per acre. Two acres was seeded to a commonwhite feed oat, which stooled well, grew to an average height of about Rpt. Alaska Agr. Expt. Stations, 1918. Plate Fig. 2.—Sugar Beets at Matanuska Station. MATANUSKA STATION. 77 3 feet, and made a splendid quality of fine strawed hay. The remain-der of the 10 acres was seeded to Finnish Black oats, which did notstool much and the stand was not very thick. It grew to a height offrom 4 to 6 feet, with straw stiff enough to stand up well with theexception of a few spots. A small area which grew oats last }Teargave poor results this season. The straw was short and the headssmall. This is a common occurrence here, oats seeming to exhaustthe soil sooner than any other crop. It is indicative of the fact thatsome system of soil treatment or crop rotation must be adoptedvery soon. The oat crop was cut with the binder October 4 and 5, at whichtime about one-fourth of the grain was ripe, but the straw was stillquite green. The sheaves were set up in long narrow shocks run-ning north and south, 8 to 10 bundles to a shock. For fear badweather might set
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