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application of fertilizer for the second crop. Four cuttings, made in 

 October, November, January, and February, gave a total of 10.7 tons 

 of green rye for 1 acre. " No farm in tbe cotton States should be with- 

 out its patches of rye or barley, to be cut or pastured during fall, winter, 

 and spring." 



Ghufas. — Half an acre of "very thin, sandy land" planted to chufas 

 gave a yield of 172 bushels of green nuts per acre. 



Alabama College Station, Bulletin No. 17 (New Series), July, 1890 (pp. 18). 



Dry application of Paris green and London purple for 

 THE cotton worm, G. F. Atkinson, Ph. B. (pp. 3-lG).— Under 

 this head are summed u}) tbe replies from twenty-one practical cotton 

 growers in different parts of tbe State to a circular of inquiry sent out 

 by the station with reference to the method described below for apply- 

 ing tiic arsenites for tbe re|)ression of tbe cotton worm {Aletia xijlina). 

 The experience with tbe same method on the station farm is also de- 

 scribed. Only one reply unfavorable to this method was received. 



In the method of ap()lication described in the bulletin, Paris green or 

 London purple in a dry form " is allowed to dust through osnaburgbags 

 susi)ended at the end of a pole, the pole being carried by a man mounted 

 on a mule, and the animal trotted across the field." 



Extracts from the correspondence are given and the substance of the 

 replies is collated in a table, which is accompanied by " remarks upon 

 the nature of the replies and their practical bearing." 



Report of the Alabama weather service (pp. 16-18). — This 

 is for May, 1890, and includes notes on the weather, a State summary 

 of observations, and a monthly summary of reports by voluntary ob- 

 servers in twenty-seven counties of tbe State. 



Alabama College Station, Bulletin No. 18 (New Series), August, 1890 (pp. 73). 



Climatology of Alabama, P. H. Mell, Ph. D.— This includes a 

 large amount of tabulated notes and other information compiled from 

 meteorological observations taken from 1811 to 1890, with general notes 

 on climatic phenomena froui 1711 to 1890. 



The earliest systematic work of coliectiug meteorological data in Alabama was 

 iiiuler the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, about forty years ago. Prior to 

 that time a few observers reported at irregular intervals to some of the agricultural 

 journals the reading of thermometers and rain-gauges, and in many issues of the 

 papers of that early time frequent references were made concerning the general con- 

 ditions of the weather and the etfects produced upon the crops. In the preparation 

 of this bulletin careful examination has been made of the following publications, 

 from which mncli valuable data have been collected : 



Southern Cultivator, Soil of the South, Country Gentleman, Farm and Home, 

 Southern Field and Fireside, Smithsonian Institution publications, Patent Office 

 reports, Signal Service reports, and bulletins of the Alabama weather service. 



