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seeding and other problems connected with its production, harvest, and utiliza- 

 tion. 



Flans for distributing Bermuda grass, O. O. Churchill (Oklahoma Sta. 

 Circ. 17, pp. 3, fig. 1). — Suggestions for securing a stand of Bermuda grass, 

 together with an outline of the plan adopted by the station for distributing the 

 roots, are given. 



Selection of corn for seed and for show, C. B. Htjtchison {Missouri Sta. 

 Circ. 50, pp. J 23-13 Jf, figs. 7). — A brief discussion of the characteristics of a 

 good ear and directions for selecting corn for seed and for show are followed 

 by a score card of the Missouri Corn Growers' Association and directions for the 

 application of the points of this score card. Suggestions are also given for the 

 preparation of ear cora for shipment. 



The story of cotton and the development of the cotton States, E. C. 

 Brooks {Chicago and London, [1911], pp. X+370, pis. 2, figs. 101). — This book 

 discusses the cotton industry in the United States from a historical, socio- 

 logical, economic, and industrial viewpoint, and considers in the concluding 

 chapters the culture of cotton and the by-products of the crop. 



German colonial cotton reports, 1900-1908, K. Supf {Deut. Kolon. Baum- 

 woll Vnternehm., Ber., 1-10 (1900-1908), pp. IV +306, pis. 19, figs. 22).— This 

 publication is a collection of reports on cotton growing in the German African 

 colonies made by special commissions sent out by the government to study the 

 field, and by the directors of experiment fields already established in those 

 regions. Statements made by private parties actually engaged in the work 

 are also included. 



The rice plant, J. Van Breda de Haan (Meded. Dcpt. Landl). [Dutch East 

 Indies], 1911, No. 15, pp. 53+111, pis. 21). — An anatomical description of the 

 rice plant, including a study of the glumes, the fruit, the embryo, the root, the 

 stem, the leaves, and the flower. 



The rice plant, H. C. H. De Bie (Meded. Dept, Landb. [Dutch East Indies], 

 1911, No. 16, pp. 38). — This article is a brief description of rice culture as car- 

 ried on by the native population of Java. 



The action of large applications of nitrogen on the sugar beet, A. Herke 

 (Osterr, JJngar. Ztschr. Zuckerindus. u. Landw., JfO (1911), No. 5, pp. 669- 

 679). — A study of the relative growth of leaf and root and of the sugar-pro- 

 ducing quality of beets grown on soils receiving applications of nitrate of soda 

 supplying from 30 to 180 kg. of nitrogen per hectare (from 26.7 to 160.2 lbs. 

 per acre) indicated that when a sufficient amount of water was present the 

 yield of sugar beets was increased by the application of the nitrogenous fer- 

 tilizer to sandy soils, but that the increase in growth of leaves was much 

 greater than that of roots. The sugar content increased with the increase in 

 amount of nitrogen applied, but the nitrogen content of the beets increased to 

 a greater extent than the sugar, the increase of harmful nitrogen compounds 

 being especially great, thus reducing the quality of the beets. When the nitrate 

 was supplied in moderate amounts in connection with potash and phosphoric 

 acid on soils poor in nitrogen, the sugar content of the beets was increased 

 without injury to the quality through the formation of nitrogenous compounds. 



The pollination of the sugar beet by the field beet and its influence on the 

 chemical composition of the progeny, K. AndrlIk, V. BartoS, and J. Urban 

 (Ztschr. Zuckerindus. Bohmen, .35 (1910). No. 1. pp. 1-10, figs. 3).— One half 

 of a sugar beet was planted among field beets, while the other half was set 

 out in a field of sugar beets. The seed produced by each part was planted 

 for comparative study of the progeny. 



Of the beets secured from the seed of the half pollinated with pollen from 

 field beets, 19 per cent were white and 81 per cent red. The form of the beets 



