410 



At the time of ripening the berries were badly stained with the cop- 

 ])er, but analysis showed that the amount was not sufficient to render 

 the fruit unwholesome. 



Massachusetts Hatch Station, Meteorological Bulletin No. 24, December, 



1890 (pp. 4). 



This includes a daily and monthly summary of observations for 

 December, 1890, made at the meteorological observatory of the station 

 in charge of C, D. Warner, B. S. 



Mississippi Station, Second Annual Report, 1889 (pp. 44). 



Repoet of director, S. M. Tracy, M. S. — Cotton, test of varieties 

 (pp. 8-12).— "Twenty-five varieties" were planted to test comparative 

 yields and values of staples. The soil selected for this work was in a 

 broad ravine where the land had been 'made' by washings from the 

 adjoining hills. This land had been in constant cultivation for at least 

 8 years, but, so far as can be learned, without the application of ferti- 

 lizers." The cotton was planted April 13, 1889. '' No fertilizers were 

 used. A very full stand was secured and no replanting was necessary. 

 On May 20 the plants were thinned so as to stand 18 inches ai)artiu the 

 rows, and during the season the plants were plowed five times and hoed 

 twice. The crop was ginned with a 'Gullett' gin, and samples of each 

 variety were submitted to the 'Arbitration Committee on Classifica- 

 tion' of the "New Orleans Cotton Exchange, to whom the station is 

 indebted for classification and remarks given in the table" accompanying 

 the report, which also contains data for the yields of lint and seed for 

 each variety, and the " value per acre" based on the market price of 

 similar grades in the New Orleans market January 21, 1890. 



The average yield of seed cotton per acre was 975.5 pounds, of lint cotton 301.9 

 pounds, and the average of lint to seed cotton was nearly 31 per cent. 



Truitt's Premium gave the largest yield of lint per acre, 396.3 pounds; Dixon's 

 Improved the largest yield of seed cotton, 1,320 pounds, but only 352.2 pounds, or 

 26.5 per cent, of lint; Peterkin gave the largest yield of lint per 100 pounds of seed, 

 39.3 pounds, but made only 287.5 pounds of lint per acre ; Okra and Champion Cluster 

 were classed as good middling, while the others were classed as middling, or below; 

 but the yield of Okra was 294 pounds of lint per acre, and of Champion Cluster only 

 157.6 pounds, and the higher price at which these are valued does not compensate foy 

 their smaller yields. 



The value per acre of the six varieties succeeding best were — 



Truitt's Premium $40.6-^ 



Ferrell's Prolific 40.49i 



Jones's L. S. Prolific 39.48 



Excelsior 37.67 



Dixon's Improved 36.20 



Truitt's Iniprc ved Prolific 35.20 



