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wheat have led the station to recommend 250 pounds of cotton-seed 

 meal to the acre as on the whole the most economical fertilizer for this 

 section. A briefer account of the experiments with wheat was given 

 in Bulletin No. 11 of the station (see Experiment Station Record, Vol. 

 I, p. 188). 



Oats. — A tabulated record of experiments in 1889 with fertilizers on 

 oats. A briefer account was published in Bulletin Ko. 11 of the sta- 

 tion (See Experiment Station Eecord, Vol. I, p. 189). 



Corn. — Brief descriptive notes on 10 varieties and tabulated results 

 of tests with 23 varieties at Fayetteville and 24 varieties at Pine Bluff 

 in 1889 are given. There is also a tabulated report for the first year 

 of an experiment witli different fertilizers on corn. 



Potatoes, A. E. Menke, D. So. (pp. 27-39). — The growing of pota- 

 toes is becoming of more importance in portions of this State, due to 

 increased shipments to Texas. The station has made tests of varieties 

 and of methods of planting. The latter are regarded at present as only 

 tentative and are not reported in detail in this article. The so-called 

 Carman method of planting has been tried with fairly good results, the 

 yield from this method averaging 33 per cent higher than that from 

 common methods. The dates of planting and blooming and the yield 

 in bushels per acre are stated in tables for 233 varieties ; tabulated data 

 are also given for 44 varieties planted in different ways. In a test of 

 the keeping qualities of 25 varieties the percentage of potatoes rotten 

 March 19, 1889, after having been kept during the winter, varied from 

 5 to 90 per cent. 



Grasses, A. E. Menke, D. So., and E. L. Bennett, B. S. (pp. 

 40-45). — " In order to test what grasses will grow on worn cotton lands, 

 we have sown some thirty acres with different varieties of grasses 

 and clovers alone and in various mixtures, fertilized and unfertil- 

 ized. * * * The laud on which they were sown was a sandy soil 

 that is said to have been in cultivation in cotton for thirty-five years. 

 It is a typical soil and well suited to the test contemplated. Plats, one 

 half acre each." Tabulated data are given for 33 of these varieties 

 and for 7 varieties to which various fertilizers have been applied. There 

 are also brief descriptive notes on 23 varieties. 



Cotton, A. F. Cory, B. S., and A. E. Menke, D. So. (pp. 46-57).— 

 This is a report of experiments at the branch station at Pine Bluff, 

 conducted on land which had been almost continuously planted with 

 cotton for thirty years, during which time it had probably not re- 

 ceived any manure. " At present 900 pounds of seed cotton to the 

 acre is regarded as a good yield under favorable circumstances." The 

 experiments were with cotton-seed meal, acid phosphate, and kainit, 

 singly and in combination, with stable manure in different amounts, and 

 with different composts. Details are stated in tables. The results give 

 the following indications regarding the effects of the fertilizers used, as 

 observed in these experimeta : 



