353 



Meteorological records (pp. 138-147).— Tabulated data of tem- 

 perature, rain-fall, and suu^bine in 1889. 



The sorghum field and losses in growing wheat, H. E. Al- 

 VORD, C. E. (pp. 148-150). — A brief account of the growing of sorghum 

 for the United States Department of Agriculture on a field of 10 acres 

 in which 70 v^arieties were planted. 



In view of the oft-repeated statement that " every farm should pro- 

 duce bread for its own people," an efiort was made to grow wheat 

 enough on the college farm in 1889 to produce 50 barrels of flour, the 

 amount needed for a year's supply at the college. In connection with 

 this experiment the cost of threshing, selling, and milling wheat were 

 estimated from the experience of the station with this crop. It was 

 found that the cost of threshing was about 11 cents per bushel. The 

 expense of transportation and commission of the middlemen (who 

 were necessarily employed, since the miller refused to take the wheat 

 directly from the producer) amounted to about 9 cents. The wheat 

 thus sold should have made 50 barrels of flour and paid the expenses of 

 milling, but with the net proceeds of the wheat the station could buy 

 only 27f barrels of flour even at wholesale rates. According to the 

 rules of business in force in Mar^ land the farmer is compelled to " pro- 

 duce wheat enough for 2 barrels of flour in order to jirovide his family 

 with one." 



Massachusetts State Station, Circular, November, 1890 (pp. 4). 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers and of manurial sub- 

 stances SENT on for examination. — This includes analyses of wood 

 ashes, "fish chum" and 18 samples of commercial fertilizers, made in 

 connection with the execution of the Massachusetts fertilizer law. 



Massachusetts Hatch Station, Meteorological Bulletin No. 23, November, 



1890 (pp. 4). 



A daily and monthly summary of observations for November, 1890, 

 made at the meteorological observatory of the station, in charge of C. 

 D. Warner, B. S. 



Michigan Station, Bulletin No. 67, October, 1890 (pp. 32). 



Fruit testing at the South Haven Substation, T. T. Lyon. — 

 An introduction by L. E. Taft, M. S., horticulturist of the station, says: 

 " In the spring of 1888 the board of agriculture authorized an arrange- 

 ment with T. T. Lyon by which the station secured a report upon the 

 fruits growing on his extensive experimental plantation at South Haven. 

 The report was is-ued as Bulletin No. 55 [See Experiment Station Rec- 

 ord, Vol. I, p. 228], and was so well received that at the urgent solic- 

 itation of the fruit growers of the -fruit belt' it was determined to place 

 the work on a more permanent basis. The people of South Haven do- 



