740 



North Dakota Station, First Annual Report, 1890 (pp, 17). 



Eeport of directok, H. E. Stockbridge, Ph. D. — The station 

 was established under an act of the legishiture of the State, approved 

 March 8, 1890. A temporary organization was effected May 15, 1890, 

 when S. T. Satterthwaite was appointed director, with James Holes 

 and Jacob Lowell as assistants. The present director and the perma- 

 nent staff of the station took charge of the work October 15, 1890. Some 

 field work on grasses, grain, and sugar-beets has been performed on 

 land leased for the purpose. Collections of native grasses and weeds, 

 and studies on the diseases of grain have been begun. Investigations 

 in dairying are in progress. Analyses of sugar-beets, soils, waters, etc., 

 are being made, as well as investigations of blackleg and tuberculosis. 

 The station has conveniently arranged and well-equipped offices and 

 laboratories, but is as yet without land for experimental purposes. 



North Dakota Station, Bulletin No. 1, January, 1891 (pp. 28), 



Grain smuts, H. L. Bolley, M. S. (illustrated). — Accounts of 

 loose smut and stinking smut, with directions for treatment with sul- 

 phate of co[)per and hot water. 



North Dakota Station, Bulletin No. 2, April, 1891 (pp. 18). 



Small fruits, C. B. Waldron, B. S. — General statements are 

 made regarding the conditions under which fruit must be grown in the 

 Northwest. The methods of cultivation and the varieties recommended 

 by J. S. Harris of Minnesota, a fruit grower of long experience, in a 

 course of lectures at the North Dakota Agricultural College, are given 

 in this article. The fruits mentioned are strawberries, raspberries, 

 blackberries, currants, gooseberries, and plums. 



Oregon Station, Bulletin No. 11, May, 1891 (pp. 23). 



Notes on grasses and potatoes, H. T. French, M. S. (illus- 

 trated). 



Grasses (pp. 3-9). — Tabulated data are given for tbe yield of hay 

 and loss of weight in curing for 17 varieties grown at the station. 

 There are also brief descriptive notes on a number of these varieties. 

 Tall fescue {Festuca elatior), Meadow fescue {Festuca pratensis), orchard 

 grass {Dactylis glomerata), tall oat grass {Arrhenatherum avenaceum), 

 perennial rye-grass {Lolium perenne), creeping bent-grass {Agrostis sto- 

 lonifera), and Texas blue-grass {Poa arachnifera) have given the best 

 results thus far. 



Potatoes (pp. 10-23). — Tabulated data are given for 39 varieties, and 

 for small experiments with fertilizers and with different amounts of 

 seed. There is also a list of 375 varieties. Garfield, Alexander No. 1, 

 Early Sunrise, and Eural New Yorker No. 2 are esx)ecially commended 

 and are illustrated in cuts. 



