BOTANICAL ABSTRACTS 



A monthly serial furnishing abstracts and citations of publications in the international field of 



botany in its broadest sense. 



UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 



THE BOARD OF CONTROL OF BOTANICAL ABSTRACTS, INC. 



Burton E. Livingston, Editor-in-Chief 

 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 



Vol. Ill MARCH, 1920 No. 3 



ENTRIES 458-871 



AGRONOMY iSTJSc 



C. V. Piper, Editor BOTANICAL 



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458. Anonymous. I. Results of wheat varieties and manurial trials.— Season 1918-19. 

 Jour. Dept. Agric. Victoria 17: 158-163. 1919. II. [Same title.] Ibid. 17: 217-221, 1919.— 

 See Bot. Absts. 3, Entry 844. 



459. Baker, A. L. Those official potato grades. Potato Mag. I 9 : 15, 25. 1 fig. 1919.— 

 Proposes certain changes. — Donald Folsom. 



460. Bell, H. G. The fertilizer situation for 1919. Potato Mag. I 8 : 5, 23, 28. 1919.— 

 Discusses the situation in regard to potatoes. — Donald Folsom. 



461. Berry, James B., and John K. Giles. The production of corn. Corn Club Guide. 

 Part 1. — Increased yields as a result of disease control. Georgia State Coll. Agric. Bull. 165. 

 16 p., fig. 18. 1919. 



462. Bobilliard J. The flax industry. Jour. Dept. Agric. Victoria 17: 222-230. PI. 

 10. 1919. Flax cultivation, varieties, seeding, manuring and soil preparation and milling 

 are discussed. — J. J. Skinner. 



463. Burlinson, W. L., and W. I. Brockson. Sweet clover production. Illinois Agric. 

 Exp. Sta. Ext. Circ. 29. 7p. 1919. — The circular discusses the methods to be employed in 

 sweet clover culture, either for hay or for seed. — M. J. Prucha. 



464. Burlinson, W. L., and R. W. Stark. Spring wheat for Illinois. Illinois Agric. Exp. 

 Sta. Bull. 214 : 315-320. 1919. — Several varieties of spring wheat were tested for productivity 

 under Illinois conditions. — M. J. Prucha. 



465. Cross, W. E. Experiments on stripping cane. Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manu- 

 facturer 62 : 301-302. 1 fig. 1919. — Experiments at the Tucuman (Argentina) Experiment 

 Station indicate that stripping off the lower leaves has no effect on hastening the maturity 

 of sugar cane. — C. W. Edgerton. 



466. Dash. J. Sydney, The sugar industry in the island of Guadeloupe, French West 

 Indies. Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer 62: 124-126. 2 fig. 1919. — Discusses 

 briefly the problems of the sugar industry that are being investigated by the Experiment 

 Station, including cultural methods, cane varieties, cane diseases, etc. — C. W. Edgerton. 



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