830 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOED. 



Agricultural development of Nyasaland {Bui. Imp. Inst. [So. Kensington], 



(1911). J\'o. '/, 1)1). 3S0-SS7). — The data here preseuted are noted above. 



[Field crops work at Dikopshof], K, Hofmann and J. Hansen {Landw. 

 Jahrb., J/O (1011), Ergdnzungfih. 1, pp. 1-129). — This is a second report, giving 

 a detailed statement of the work on an estate operated in connection with the 

 Royal Agricultural Academy at Bonn-Poi)pelsdorf. The results of numerous 

 A'ariety and fertilizer tests conducted during 1908-9 are stated. 



Report of the work of the Imperial Bavarian Moorculture Station, 1909, 

 A. Baumann (Landw. Jahrh. Bayern, 1 (1911), No. 3, pp. Sl-Sl-'t). — A report of 

 a considerable number of variety and fertilizer tests with various crops in 

 numerous localities. 



Second annual report of the demonstration area, Bathurst experiment 

 farm, R. W. Peacock (Agr. Gas. N. S. Wales, 22 (1911), No. 11, pp. 949-960).— 

 Tables present the results of variety, rate of seeding, date of seeding, and other 

 work with wheat. Other tables state in detail the cost of production and the 

 returns secured in growing wheat, alfalfa, corn, and a fodder crop of rape and 

 barley. 



Experimental forage plats, 1910-11, T. A. J. Smith (Jour. Dept. Agr. Vic- 

 toria, 9 (1911), No. 8, pp. 553-556, figs. 2).— A brief report of fertilizer and 

 variety tests with corn, soy beans, millet, and broom corn in different localities 

 is given. 



Summer crops for grain and silage, western district, M. H. Reynolds (Agr. 

 Gaz. N. 8. Wales, 22 (1911), No. 9, pp. 762-769, j)ls. 2, figs. 5).— A'ariety tests of 

 corn cut for silage in a number of localities, a fertilizer test with corn and 

 sorghum, and miscellaneous work with cowpeas, soy beans, and other crops are 

 reported. 



Re vegetating experiments on depleted country, A. Macpherson (Jour. New 

 Zeal. Dept. Atgr., 4 (1912), No. 1, pp. 21, 22, fig. i).— Brief notes on tests of 26 

 grasses and 3 grass-seed mixtures. 



Fodder plants indigenous to Australia (Bui. Imp. Inst. [So. Kensington], 

 9 (1911), No. 3, pp. 272-280). — The author groups the fodder plants with which 

 he deals as grasses, Australian saltbushes, pasture herbs, and shrubs and trees. 

 The grasses are further subdivided into those suitable for general pasture and 

 hay, silage, cultivation for grain, winter growth, wet or undi-ained land, ridges 

 and very dry soils," and those for use in binding littoral sands. Another list in- 

 cludes those objectionable because their sharp-pointed leaves injure the mouths 

 of sheep or because the ripe seeds are injurious to the eyes or wool. 



Breeding experiments with grasses, Dix (Ilhis. Landiv. Ztg., 31 (1911), 

 Nos. 98, pp. 903-905; 99, pp. 912, 913, figs. 13).— The author states the results 

 of 1 year's work with Italian, English, and French rye grass, and with or- 

 chard grass. A study of each showed the presence of many types and of great 

 variation in height, rate of growth, and thickness of foliage, especially in the 

 case of the rye grass. The numerical and other data presented in the tables 

 deal almost entirely with the Italian rye grass Lolium italicum, but similar 

 data for 1 specimen of L-. pcrenne are given for comparison. 



The grama grasses: Bouteloua and related genera, D. Griffiths (V. S. 

 Nat. Mus., Contrih. Nat. Herharium, IJ, (1912), pt. 3, pp. Z/+5//3--i2S, pis. 17, 

 figs. j}-5). — This botanical study of numerous species of Bouteloua and related 

 genera describes the various species dealt with and states where herbarium 

 specimens may be found. 



Meadows and pastures, J. E. Wing (Chicago, 1911, pp. 418, pi. 1, figs. 59). — 

 The author states the soil and other requirements of each of a number of 

 grasses and legumes, including cowpeas, Canada peas, and soy beans, used for 



