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compares with Kolb Gem." For Lome use Cuba, Sugar Loaf, Florida 

 Favorite, aucl Pride of Georgia are of flue llavor and teuder flesh. 



Report of Alabama weather service, P. H. Mell, Ph. D. 

 (pp. 15-18). — Brief notes on the weather during October, 1890, and a 

 monthly summary of meteorological data and of observations of soil tem- 

 peratures. 



Alabama Canebrake Station, Second Annual Report, 1889 (pp. 7). 



This contains the reports of the treasurer and director. The latter 

 includes a brief outline of the work recorded in bulletins of the sta- 

 tion, abstracts of which have already appeared in the Experiment Sta- 

 tion Record. Under the head of permanent improvements it is stated 

 that, " since the last report was made a large two-story barn and cow 

 house has been built, and experiments in cattle feeding and pig feeding 

 are now in progress. The lower floor contains eight stalls for cattle, 

 two for pigs, an office, and feed and weighing room. The upper story 

 contains separate compartments for different varieties of hay, while 

 above this is a loft for storage of miscellaneous forage. Fresh water is 

 supj)lied by a hydrant on the first floor." 



Arkansas Station, Second Annual Report, 1889 (pp. 204). 



Report op chemists, C. B. Collin gwood, B. S., and G. A. 

 Humphreys (pp. 5, 6). — It is stated that in 1889, four hundred 

 and fifty-nine quantitative analyses were made, including " water, cot- 

 ton seed hulls, shells, silage,, strawberries, land plaster, butter, wine, 

 oats, fertilizers, milk, and sorghum." The results of analyses of shells 

 from Ouachita County, a smut destroyer, silage from corn and pea 

 vines, and wines are reported in tabular form. 



Fertilizers, C. B. Collingwood, B. S. (pp. 7-18).— This con- 

 tains general statements regarding commercial fertilizers; the sources 

 and cost of nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash; directions for sam- 

 pling fertilizers; the text of the State law regulating sale of fertilizers, 

 approved March 8, 1889; and analyses of 2(> brands of fertilizers, 17 of 

 which were published in Bulletin No. 10 of the station (See Experiment 

 Station Record, Vol. 1, p. 9). 



Cereals, A. E. Menke, D. Sc. (pp. 19-26). — A report on experi- 

 ments with wheat, oats, and corn. 



Wheat. — The yields of 10 varieties tested in 1888 and 1889 are given, 

 together with the dates of heading and harvesting and yields of straw 

 and wheat for 12 varieties tested in 1889. There are also brief descrip- 

 tive notes on 11 varieties and tabulated data for an experiment with 

 fertilizers on wheat. As the result of two years' observations Fultz 

 and Michigan Amber are recommended as varieties suited to the north- 

 western section of the State. Two years' exi)erimeuts with fertilizers on 



