LIST AND CONTENTS OF BULLETINS 1 TO 100. o< 



* No. 04. Farm Practice with Forage Crops in "Western Oregon and 



Western "Washington. By Byron Hunter, Assistant 



Agricuhurist, Farm Management Investigations. 1*.H)C.. 



39 pp., 4 figs. Price, 10 cents. 



Contents: Introduction — Description of the region — Haymaking-: Condi- 

 tions governing stage at which hay should be cut ; curing hay ; hay caps — The 

 silo — The nature of leguminous plants — Forage crops: lied clover: methods of 

 sowing: the seed croi) : alsike clover; common vetch: methods of sowing: 

 soiling; the hay crop; the seed crop; pearl vetch; field peas; alfalfa; 

 methods of sowing; inoculation; timothy; the rye-grasses ; orchard grass; 

 meadow fescue ; velvet grass ; Indian corn ; rape; the seed crop; thousaud- 

 headedkale: methods of sowing ; feeding; the seed crop ; root crops ; soiling 

 (green feeding) crops — Seeding timber burns and burnt slashings. 



No. 95. A New Type of Red Ck)ver. By Charles J. Brand, Assistant 



Physiologist. Laboratory of Plant Life History. 19()(*). 



48 pp., 3 pis., '1 figs. Price, 10 cents. 



Contents : Introduction — The importance of clover culture — Domestic versus 

 foreign seed — Objections of European growers to American red clover — Hairy 

 clover a cause of bloating — Some geueral objections to the growing of clover — 

 Certain objections ovei'come by new type of clover — Disadvantage of lateness 

 of maturing under some conditions — Heavy yield of first crop and accruing 

 advantages — Other ])oints of excellence of hairless clover— Effect of persisting 

 basal leaves on quality of hay — Lateness of hairless clover with reference to 

 insect ravages — Effect of lateness of maturing when seed production is de- 

 sired — Sections particularly suited to the cultivation of the new type — Seed of 

 new type indistiguishable "from ordinary form — IMans of experiments, origin 

 of seed, and methods of jirocedure — Sources of Russian clover seed except No. 

 16 — Source from which Russian seed Xo. 16 was obtained — The soil and cli- 

 mate of Orel — Purity and germination of seed used in experiments — Detailed 

 description of experiments : The experiment in Nelaraska ; location ; soil ; 

 drainage; preparation of land and seeding; general weather conditions during 

 1904 ; comparison of strains of clover on entering the winter of 1904 ; compari- 

 son of early growth of certain strains of clover; weather during growing 

 season of 1905 ; earliness of varieties and order in which they matured ; yield 

 of the Orel clover compared with other strains; the experiment in South 

 Dakota; location; soil and drainage; preparation of land, seeding, and sub- 

 sequent treatment; weather conditions during 1904 and 1905; comparison of 

 yields ; the experiment in Minnesota ; location, soil, and drainage ; prepara- 

 tion of land, seeding, and subsequent treatment; weather conditions during 

 1904 and 1905; comparative condition of different strains of clover in the 

 spring of 1905; yields of green matter; comparison of clover No. IG with 

 other strains ; yields of field-cured hay ; order in which the various strains 

 matured : comparison of yields of field-cured hay ; the experiment in North 

 Dakota; location, soil, and drainage: preparation of land, seeding, and sub- 

 sequent treatment: weather conditions during 1904 and 1905; comparison of 

 yields — Other experiments in which clover No. 16 was included — Description 

 of new type and name proposed — Later observations — Summary — Description 

 of plates. 



* No. 96. Tobacco Breeding. By A. D. Shamel and "W. W. Cobey, 



In Charge of Tobacco Breeding Experiments, Plant 



Breeding Investigations. 1907. 71 pp., 10 pis., 14 figs. 



Price, 15 cents. 



Contents : Introduction — The great variability of tobacco plants — The intro- 

 duction and acclimatization of varieties — The structure and arrangement of 

 flowers — The necessity for inbreeding — The improvement of the shape of 

 leaves — The modification of the size of leaves — The control of the number of 

 leaves on individual plants — The production of nonsuckering types — The pro- 



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