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result was from the use of nitrogen with some other plant food ; (4) 

 wherever two forms of plant food were used the result was better than in 

 any case where only one form was applied." 



Test of varieties of wheat, A. I. Hayward, B. S. (pp. 39-46). — 

 Tabulated notes on 45 different varieties of wheat tested on fortieth-acre 

 plats which were cut down to one fiftieth of an acre at the time of har- 

 vesting. " The crop as a whole was poor enough, yet better than could 

 be expected from sowiug so late [November 6-8]. These conditions 

 did not materially affect the comparison." A drought in June " came 

 too late to seriously injure the crop, but it caused the several varieties 

 to ripen at nearly the same time, whereas there were notable differ- 

 ences of maturity apparent three weeks earlier." The three varieties 

 in all respects superior to the others in this test were the Deitz, Ful- 

 caster, and New Australian, the Deitz leading. 



Maryland Station, Bulletin No. 11, December, 1890 (pp. 30). 



Experiments with tomatoes in 1890, W. H. Bishop, B. S., and 

 H. J. Patterson, B. S. (pp. 47-74, illustrated). — The experiments 

 reported in this bulletin were in the main a repetition of those with toma- 

 toes at the station in 1889, a record of which was published in the 

 Annual Report of the station for 1889 (See Experiment Station Record, 

 Vol. II, pp. 348 and 350). The investigations included (1) a variety 

 test, (2) comparison of pot-grown and transplanted plants, (3) fertilizer 

 test, and (4) chemical analyses with reference to the food and fertilizing 

 constituents of tomatoes and the relation of this crop to soil exhaus- 

 tion. 



Tomatoes, test of varieties (pp. 48-56). — In this test 102 lots of seed 

 were used which had been i^urchased under 80 different names, and 

 included numerous " novelties." iNotes on the treatment of the crop 

 are given, together with tabulated data, including a list of the varieties 

 tested, estimated yield per acre, and comparative earliness, with com- 

 parisons of pot grown and transplanted plants; and the percentage ot 

 flesh and number of cells in the fruit. 



Tomatoes, comparison of pot-grown and transplanted plants (pp. 56-58). — 

 The comparison was between tomato plants of some 80 varieties, started 

 in the usual way and transplauted several times, and plants grown in 

 pots and disturbed as little as possible " from the seed to the field." 



When the seed was planted, half of each variety was placed in the soil of the hot- 

 bed, and half in 2-iach pots, sunk in the hot-bed soil. When, four weeks later, 

 the one half were "pricked out" and transferred to a cold frame in the usual way, 

 the other half were shifted with great care to 4-incli pots imbedded in the soil of the 

 same frame. As soon as the plants could be well distinguished the number in each 

 pot was reduced to one. When transferring to cold frame, every plant in the bed soil 

 was given a space about 4 inches square. The plants of every variety, potted and 

 bedded, were kept in the same row, in the beds and frames, so as to insure like con- 

 ditions of growth. 



Several warm, wet, cloudy days immediately followed the transfer from hot-bed to 



