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quantity of ears, but also the smallest number of well develoi)e(l ears. 

 The yield in corn stover, on the other hand, is in two of these cases 

 at least equal to the highest on any of the other plats." 

 The experiment is to be continued. 



(2) Influence of fertilizers on the quantity and quality of prominent fod- 

 der crops (pp. 15G-167). — Notes on Kentucky blue-grass, Bokhara clover, 

 and sanfoiu, raised on fertilized and on unfertilized plats, and on Ked- 

 Cob Ensilage and Clark corn, meadow fescue, medium red clover, and 

 alsike clover, raised on fertilized plats. 



Analyses with reference to both the food and the fertilizing constitu- 

 ents are given for Italian rye-grass, alsike clover, medium red clover, 

 mammoth red clover, alfalfa, and soja bean (entire plant) liaised in 1883. 



(3) Experiments with field and garden crops (pp. 1G8-1SS, ill ustrated). — 

 Notes on the following crops raised in 1889: American rutabagas, 

 Lane's and Saxony sugar-beets, Danvers carrots, Erfurt Earliest and 

 Early Snowball cauliflowers, Haines No. 64 tomato, Honduras, New 

 Orange, Kansas Orange, Price's New Hybrid, and Early Tennessee 

 sorghum, Bokhara clover {Melilotus alba), Melilotus carulea, Lotus vil- 

 losus, Pyrcthrum roseum, sulla {Hedysarum coronarium), peas. Dwarf 

 Lima beans, early cow-pea, black soja bean, bine lupine, cow-pea, 

 horse bean, Japan clover {Lespedcza striata), Chaj)man honey plant. 

 New Japanese buckwheat, common barley, hulless black barley, Red- 

 Cob Ensilage and Minnesota King corn, Beauty of Hebron potatoes, 

 Hargett's White, Improved American, and Connecticut Valley oats, 

 and Eussian rhubarb. 



Analyses are given showing the food and the fertilizing constitu- 

 ents of teosinte [EiichUvna luxurians), Lotus viUosits, sulla, hairy vetch 

 {Vicia villosa), Bokhara or sweet clover, Melilotus cwrnlea, Danvers 

 carrots, Danvers carrot toi^s, beets, sugar-beets, potatoes, and Ameri- 

 can rutabagas. The results are also given of determinations of the 

 sugar in live varieties of sorghum, and a table showing the loss in 

 weight of two potatoes kept in a dry cellar from September 2G to April 1). 



(4) Experiments icith green crops for summer feed for milch cows (pp. 

 189-194). — Notes on the crops of vetch and oats, serradella, and South- 

 ern cow peas raised at the station for green fodder. 



Report of vegetable physiologist, J. E. Humphrey, B. S. 

 (pp. 195-230, illustrated). — This includes "(1) a general account of 

 fungi, with special reference to those which cause diseases of cultivated 

 plants 5 (2) a report on studies of the [)otato scab carried on during 

 the year; (3) notes on various diseases of plants, which have been more 

 or less prevalent on the station farm the past season ; (4) notes on 

 specimens from other sources, referred to the station for examination 

 and report." 



Potato scab (pp. 214-223). — In a field in which the scab had api)eared 

 for several years exj^eriments were made along the following lines : (1) 

 ett'ecta of deep vs. shallow planting; (2) susceptibility to attack of 



