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injurious to the beets in 1890, giving accounts of them, together with 

 suggestions regarding their repression : Garden web-worm {Eurycreon 

 rantalis), pale-colored flea beetle {Systena hlanda), triangle flea beetle 

 {Disonycha triangularis), striped flea beetle {Phyllotreta vittafa), Phyllo- 

 treta albionica, blister beetles, seven species have thus far been observed 

 on beets, of which four are illustrated, viz,, Macrohasis unicolor, Epicauta 

 vittata, E. maculata, and E. pennsylvanica', true bugs, (four species are 

 illustrated, viz., Geocoris bullata, Piesma cinerea, Lygus pratensis, and 

 Nysius angustatus) ; leaf hoppers {Agallia siccifolia in particular); cut- 

 worms of the genus Agrotis', wire-worms {Melanotus communis is illus- 

 trated). Nine of the 23 figures in this article are original. 



Cultivation of the sugar-beet (pp. 73-87). — A resume of the results of 

 European experience, with illustrations of beets grown with and with- 

 out proper culture and of the implements used in beet culture, by H. E. 

 L. Horton, assistant chemist of the station. 



The bulletin also contains general suggestions to farmers regarding 

 the raising of beets for sugar, statements concerning the conditions 

 under which the station will distribute seeds for further tests, and a 

 prospectus issued by the State board of agriculture for a competitive 

 test of sugar-beets raised in Nebraska to be made at the State fair next 

 September. 



Nevada Station, Bulletin No. 12, April, 1891 (pp. 9). 



Sugar-beet culture, E. H. McDowell, B. S. — A brief compila- 

 tion of information regarding sugar-beet culture, prepared in view 

 of the fact that the station will conduct experiments in that line this 

 season. 



New Hampshire Station, Bulletin No. 12, March, 1891 (pp. 13). 



Fertilizer experiments, G. H. Whitcher, B. S.— The only 

 co-operative experiments carried on under the direction of the station 

 in 1890 consisted of a series of fertilizer experiments with potatoes made 

 on a single farm in the State. The same fertilizers were used on the 20 

 twentieth-acre plats as in the experiment of 1889, viz., dissolved bone- 

 black, muriate of potash, and sulphate of ammonia, singly and in vari- 

 ous combinations on 12 plats ; wood ashes, barn-yard manure, and the 

 "prepared fertilizers" — Stockbridge's Potato Manure, Bowker's Hill 

 and Drill, and Bradley's XL — each alone on a single plat; and no 

 fertilizer on 3 i)lats. The "chemicals" and ashes were applied at the 

 rate of $10 worth per acre, the " prepared fertilizers" at rates varying 

 slightly from this, and the barn-yard manure at about twice this rate. 

 Two tables show the amount and composition of the fertilizer used on 

 each i)lat, the yield of potatoes, gain over the unfertilized plats, and 

 the value at 50 cents per bushel of the total yield, and the gain for each 

 dollar's worth of fertilizer apiflied. The yields from the unfertilized 



