ABSTRACTS OF BULLETINS OF TflE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS IN THE 



UNITED STATES. 



Alabama College Station, Bulletin No. 19 (New Series), October, 1890 (pp. 16) 



EoADS- AND ROAD MAKING, J. H. LANE, C. E. (pp. 3-13). — This ar- 

 ticle, by the professor of civil engiueering and drawing in the Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College of Alabama, was prepared at the request 

 of the board of directors of the station, and, as the author is careful to 

 state, was largely compiled from standard works on this subject. 



Eeport of Alabama weather service, P. H. Mell, Ph. D. (pp. 

 14-16). — Brief notes on the weather during September, and a monthly 

 summary of meteorological data and of observations of soil tempera- 

 tures. 



Alabama Canebrake Station, Bulletin No. 9 (pp. 17). 



Crops for silage, forage plants, and grasses, W. H. New- 

 man, M. S. 



Crops for silage (pp. 3-7). — Early Amber, Early Orange, and "Large 

 African sorghum, Kaffir corn, Pearl millet. Yellow mlllo maize, and 

 teosinte were planted April 8, 1889, on twentieth-acre plats, on " black 

 slough " bottom-land. The sorghums and Yellow millo maize gave the 

 largest yield and teosinte the smallest. " Kaffir corn made a short, 

 stocky growth, and was not eaten readily by cattle." Pearl millet made 

 a good growth, but was inferior to sorghum as a silage crop. Stock pre- 

 ferred Early Orange and Early Amber sorghum. The yields of green 

 fodder per acre for each of two cuttings are given for each variety in a 

 table. Early Orange yielded 29,960 pounds per acre July 19, and 8,300 

 pounds September 9. Chicken corn sown on one fourth acre yielded at 

 the rate of 22.520 pounds of green fodder per acre at the first cutting and 

 3,760 pounds of cured hay at the second cutting. Pea vines are stated 

 to be " almost the best crop we can grow " for late silage, but are difficult 

 to handle, and would probably pay better if cured for hay under proper 

 conditions. Seven tons of common field corn fit for silage were pro- 

 duced on one half acre of " shell ridge " land. The station silo, an or- 

 dinary wooden structure located above ground, is described and direc- 



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