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of 70 pounds, the weight of corn when husked aud again when cured 

 (February 7), and tlie weight of the shelled corn from 70 pounds of ear 

 corn. The number of ears per bushel ranged from 112 to 125 on the 

 unfertilized plats and where no potash fertilizer had been used, and 

 from 84 to 91 where the potash had been applied. As in the trial in 

 18S9 (See Bulletin No. 26 of the station, or Experiment Station Record, 

 Vol. II, p. 144), no relation was apparent between the fertilizers used 

 and the fjhrinkage of the corn in curing or the proportion of kernel to 

 corn. 



Maryland Station, Bulletin No. 9,* June, 1890 (pp. 15). 



Comparison of strawberries, 1890, W. H. Bishop, B. S. (pp. 

 19-31). — "In testing varieties of strawberries we have used 24 plants 

 of each, set in rows 3J feet apart, the plants being 18 inches apart in 

 the rows. One half of the plants were kept in hills or stools by cutting 

 off all runners, and the other half were allowed to form matted rows 

 by letting all runners grow after July 10. In the case of a few varieties 

 where only one dozen plants were available, they were grown in matted 

 rows only. The soil was a cla^-ey loam, somewhat mixed with gravel. 

 This season the crop was materially shortened by dry weather." 



Tabulated notes are given for 88 varieties and descriptive notes for 

 18 of these varieties, which "showed decided characteristics. * * * 

 Comparing the results of the two methods of culture, it is found that 

 in neaily all varieties the matted rows gave a larger yield and gener- 

 ally larger fruits." 



Brief notes on 26 varieties of strawberries tested on light, sandy soil, 

 are condensed from the report of Mr. 11. L. Gulick, East New Market, 

 Dorchester County, Maryland, published in the Peninsula Farmer ot 

 June 24; 1890. Similar notes are also given for 13 varieties from a report 

 of W. F. Allen, jr., of Wicomico County, Maryland, in the Salisbury 

 Advertiser of July 12, 1890. Tabulated data are given for 26 varieties 

 on trial at the station which have not fruited, including the name, place 

 and time of origin, and the parentage, so far as known. The rain-fall 

 lor the first six months of 1889 and 1890 is recorded as observed at the 

 station, Washington, and Baltimore. 



Maryland Station, Bulletin No. 10, September, 1890 (pp. 16). 



Effect of different fertilizers on wheat, A. I. Hayward, 

 B. S. (pp. 33-39). — The land used in the experiments reported in this 

 article consists of a clay loam soil with gravelly subsoil, and had 

 received little or no manure. It was well worn and fairly even in fertil- 

 ity. It had been used for raising fodder corn and sorghum in^the year 

 1888, and after the remov^al of that crop in the fall had been sown to 

 rye. The growth which sprung up after the harvesting of the rye in 



* ^Pulletins Nos. 7 and 8 have not yet been issued. 



