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Tennessee Station, Second Annual Report, 1889 (pp. 16). 



This includes a brief account of tlie history, organization, and equip- 

 ment of the station; abstracts of four bulletins issued in 1889; and 

 outlines of work during 18S9 in field and feeding experiments, chemis- 

 try, botany, horticulture, and entomology. 



Texas Station, Second Annual Report, 1889 (pp. 117). 



Report of director F. A, (Iulley, M. S. (pp. 9, 10).— A brief 

 outline of the work of tlie station. 



Report op agriculturist, G. W. Curtis, M. S. A.(pp. 11-lG). — 

 This includes brief notes on experiments witli fertilizers on corn, varie- 

 ties of cotton, Johnson grass, and germination tests with wheat. 



FertUizers for corn (pp. 11-13). — Tliis is a report of ])rogress in an 

 experiment conducted on the poorest quality of shallow upland "post- 

 oak" soil, with a subsoil of stiffand almost imi>ervious clay. The objects 

 are: "(1) to show the comparative value of the different fertilizers used 

 for corn ; (li) to see how long the effect of the fertilizer will be notice- 

 able ; (.5) to find whether it is practicable, on the class of soil used in the 

 test, to save labor in api>lying the fertilizers by putting on at one appli- 

 cation as much as would ordinarily be used in three or four successive 

 applications; (4) to note the exact cost of the increase in each year's 

 crop and the gain or loss per acre in each case." 



The fertilizers used were cow manure, Texas phosphate, bone meal, 

 ammoniated phosphate, and cotton-seed meal. The results for each of 

 5 years (1885-1880) are stated in tables. . 



The bone meal Las produced the largest yield each year except the fifth (1889), 

 when it was exceeded by the aniinnniated ]>ho8phate. For the first .'t years the value 

 of iiicreasefl production places the fertilizers used in the followiiij;; order: bone meal, 

 cow UKinure, Texas phosphate, ammoniated phosphate, cotton seed meal. On the 

 other hand, comparing with reference to net prolit, by deducting the cost from the 

 value of increase, we have cow manure, ammoniated i)h(tsphate, cotton-seed meal, 

 Texas phosphate, bone meal. * * * 



It is a matter of considerable interest; that the effect of each fertilizer has been 

 shown in more marked degree with each succeeding year; how long it will continue 

 is a question for further trial. The indications now seem to point to a possible ecou- 

 omy of labor v.'ith soil of this descrijition in making heavier .apjilications of manure 

 at longer intervals. 



Cotton, test of varieties (pp. 13, 14). — Brief notes on a test in 1S89 of 

 Hefley's Gold Leaf and Cherry's Long Staple. Both are considered 

 valuable varieties and the test will be continued. 



Experiment iiiih Johnson grass {pp. 14, l.'i) — This is a continuation 

 of an ex[)eriinent reported in the Annual Report of the station for 

 1888. Its objects are "(I) to increase the stand on poor land in order 

 to make it a profitable hay crop: and (2) to find some effective means 

 of complete destruction, which should be cheap enough for i)ractica- 

 bility. The first we are certainly accomplishing by manuring the laud 



