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musk-melons, cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, potatoes, sweet-potatoes, 

 pea-nuts, tobacco, timothy, alfalfa, red clover, field peas, millo maize, 

 and sorghum. A barn 28 by 40 feet, and a building 56 by 11 feet, for 

 tool shop, corn crib, wagon shed, etc., were erected during the year. 

 Other improvements were made on the station farm. The year's experi- 

 ence has indicated that the soil and climate at the station are well 

 adapted to the growth of many kinds of garden vegetables and fruits. 

 The prevalence of high winds in spring in this region makes it desirable 

 to surround gardens with hedges. 



"We have succeeded in growing four good crops of alfalfa from the 

 spring seeding. Two crops of red clover have been cut the first year, 

 and a third crop turned over in October for fertilizing. Thirty bushels 

 of corn were raised to the acre with one irrigation, and that was 

 unnecessary, as 4 inches of rain fell within one week after irrigation 

 was finished." 



Report op special examining committee, D. W. Working and 

 D. Brothers (pp. 129-132). — This is by members of a committee of the 

 Colorado State (Irauge and the State Horticultural Society appointed 

 at the request of the State board of agriculture and is commendatory 

 of the work of the station. 



Colorado Station, Bulletin No. 13, October, 1890 (pp. 37). 



The measurement and division of water, L. G. Carpenter, 

 M. S. (illustrated). — An account of difierent devices for measuring the 

 water supplied to patrons of irrigation canals in use in Italy, and in 

 Colorado and elsewhere in the United States. The author confidently 

 recommends the overfall or sharp crested weir as "the form of module 

 which best satisfies the conditions of accuracy." The module of the 

 Canale Villoresi, constructed by Cippoletti, very largely on the basis of 

 the extensive investigations of J. B. Francis, of Lowell, Massachusetts, 

 is described in considerable detail, and " seems to possess the most 

 merits of any known to the writer at present." Tables of the discharge 

 of water over rectangular weirs and over trapezoidal weirs of the 

 Cippoletti pattern are printed at the end of this bulletin. 



Connecticut Storrs Station, Second Annual Report, 1889 (pp. 184). 



Eeport of director, W. O. Atwater, Ph. D. (pp. 9, 10). — A 

 brief outline of the work of the station in 1889. 



The acquisition of atmospheric nitrogen by plants, W. O. 

 Atwater, Ph. D., and 0. D. Woods, B. S. (pp. 11-51).— A detailed 

 account of the investigations on this subject, briefly reported in Bulletin 

 No. 5 of the station (See Experiment Station Record, Vol. I, p. 194). 



Bacteria in milk, cream, and butter, H. W. Conn, Ph. D. (pp. 

 52-07). — A more detailed account of investigations reported in Bulletin 

 No. 4 of the station (See Exi)eriment Station Record, Vol. I, p. 192). 



