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Seepage water. — A tabular record is given of the mean rate per sec- 

 ond and total discharge from a seepage ditch in the college grounds 

 for about 6 months of 1889, as determined by a measuring weir. 



Soil temperatures. — A tabular record of the weekly means of soil 

 temperatures and a monthly summary of the meteorological observa- 

 tions at the station in 1889 are also given. 



Keport of veterinary section, Wm. McEAcnRAN, M. D., V. S. 

 (pp. 77-79). — A brief account of observations of the temperature of 

 healthy horses, experiments in the use of purgatives with horses, and 

 observations of th3 disease of horses and sheep caused by the loco 

 weed {Oxytropus lamberti). 



Report on apiary, C. M. Brose (pp. 80-87). — Owing to the press 

 of other work it was found impracticable to continue the experiments 

 with bees begun in 1888 (See Colorado Station Eeport, 1888, p. 227, 

 and Experiment Station Bulletin No. 2, p. 35). This article contains 

 brief accounts of methods of wintering bees, and a tabulated state- 

 ment of the condition of twenty colonies belonging to the station, 

 April 1 and 15 and May 1, 1889. Seventeen of these colonies were 

 wintered in ''chaff" hives and the other three were left unprotected. 



Report of the San Luis Valley Station, H. H. Griffin, B. S. 

 (pp. 88-112).—" The San Luis Valley (or Park) is about 120 miles long 

 from north to south, and from 40 to 60 miles in width, and is inclosed 

 by mountains, except on the south. Water for irrigation is principally 

 obtained from the Rio Grande Riv^er. It is a region of heavy winter 

 snows, but scant summer rain-fall; of high winds and late frosts in the 

 spring, and early frosts in the fall. 



" The station is situated near the Rio Grande River, 7 miles east of 

 the town of Del iSTorte. It is about 60 miles from the southern State 

 line and has an altitude, approximately, of 7,500 feet. The station farm 

 comprises 200 acres; the soil is a light, sandy, gravelly loam ; the subsoil 

 is composed of gravel and cobblestone, and is found at depths vary- 

 ing from 1 to 4 feet." Irrigation is used on this farm. 



Brief notes are given on experiments with wheat, barley, oats, rye, 

 corn, buckwheat, peas, red clover, alfalfa, esparsette, German millet, 

 English rye grass, and timothy. Notes, in most cases tabulated, 

 are also given for 20 varieties of peas, 2 of onions, 3 ot radishes, 3 of 

 lettuce, 5 of beets, 2 of carrots, 29 of beans, 6 of cucumbers, 13 of 

 musk-melons, 4 of water-melons, 5 of peppers, 10 of squashes, 12 of 

 sweet-corn, 3 of turnips, 3 of ruta-bagas, 13 of tomatoes, and 41 of seed- 

 ling and 59 of standard potatoes. Experiments begun with orchard and 

 small fruits and forest-trees are briefly reporied. A summary of meteo- 

 rological observations is also given. 



Report of Arkansas Valley Station, F. L. Watrous (pp. 113- 

 128). — Brief notes on experiments with varieties of wheat, oats, bar- 

 ley, rye, buckwheat, corn, pears, plums, apples, crab-apples, strawber- 

 ries, grapes, tomatoes, peppers, peas, beans, sweet-corn, water-melons, 



