505 



only recently iippeaied in tlie, United States, but is apparently spreading. 

 It was observed in a. nnnd)er of places in New York in 1890. r^nrojteau 

 experience siiows tliat it is very desirable for our gardeners to make 

 every effort to bring it under control. 



The EFJ-'i!^cT OF iiemoving the tassels on the prolificacy Oli" 

 couN, I. p. Roberts, M. Agr. (pp. 15G-159). — A report of au experi- 

 ment to test the tlieory tliat if the tassels are removed from corn before 

 they have i)rodu(!ed pollen the yield of lyain will be increased. On a 

 plat iilanted with Sibley's I'ride of the North corn in 48 rows of 42 hills 

 each, the tassels were removed from each alternate row as soon as they 

 api)eared. The results are tabulated in detail for each row and are 

 summed up in the following table: 



Kunibcv of i^ootl oars 



Nuiiilici- (iT iiiiDi- (inrs 



Nniiilx r III' alKirlivc, cars 



Total iMiiiibrr (if ciirs 



AVci'^hr ol' iiicrclr.intablc com poiinils. . 



"\\'iii;lil of I MIDI- roni do 



Kiiiiibcr of 8t ilks 



lUU stalks wei>;bc(l pounds.. 



Aggregate yield. 



Tassels Tassels 

 leftou. removed. 



1,551 



C2S 



2, fiUG 



4,715 



710 



KiO 



d, 186 



82 



2,338 

 8f<5 

 951 



4,174 



1, 07S 

 187 



4,228 

 79 



Comparative j'ield. 



Tassels Tassels 

 left ou. removed. 



100 

 100 

 1(10 

 ]00 

 lOi) 

 100 

 100 

 100 



151 

 141 

 37 

 88 

 152 

 144 

 101 

 9tJ 



While for a single trial the results of this experiment seem particularly marked 

 and conclusive, it yet remains to be determined whether it will pay for a farmer to 

 remove any considerable proportion of the tassels from his corn ; what prop<»rtion it 

 will be best to remove (for some evidently must be left) : and whether all that it is 

 advisable to remove may be taken off at one time or not. So lar as we could estimate 

 the time taken, it certainly paid us from a commercial standpoint to remove all the 

 tassels from one half the rows this year. It is also still to be determined whether 

 the removal of the tassels would be followed with the same effect iii a season aud on 

 a soil where there was abundant moisture for all the needs of the plant at the time 

 when the tassels were shooting and the ears forming. 



Analyses of sugar-beets, I. P. Eoberts, M. Agr., and U. 

 Snydeii, B. S. (pp. 159, 160).— Analyses of 5 varieties of sugar-beets 

 grown at the station in 1890 and of 1 variety grown at two other i)laces 

 in New York, show a total per cent of sugar ranging from 7.93 to 11.04. 

 In this case "the crops producing the greatest yield per acre gave beets 

 containing the largest percentage of sugar." 



Sugar-beets as sto(;k food, 1. P. Eoberts, M. Agr. (pp. l(»0- 

 ]()2). — The 5 varieties of sugar-beets growu at the station iu 1890 gave 

 an average yield of 23.1 tons per acre, while the sfngle variety (Ijong 

 Ked) of mangels growu in comparison with the beets yielded 31.4 tons. 

 One variety (Bulteau Despre/'s Kichest) of the beets, however, yielded 

 35 tons per acre. Analyses of the beets aud maugels as given in this 

 article show less water and more nitrogen-free extract iu the beets than 

 in the mangels. Taking the average yields as given above, the amounts 

 of dry matter per acre in the two crops was about ecptal. Practi- 

 cally, therefore, the greater difference in growing and harvesting the 



