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medium height, long leaf, and white seed, and of the F2 generation the W. H. 

 N. D. variety was most promising. 



In the F2 generation of the W. H.XP. M. cross the author considered the 

 P. M. W. H. variety most promising. It was very prolific and the kernels, 

 which ripened rather late, were blue-gray in color. 



The Fi generation of a W. H. N. D.XP. M. W. H. cross consisted of tall, 

 single stalked, early ripening, prolific plants with white, blue-gray, yellow, and 

 brown kernels, while in the F2 generation there appeared a number of plants 

 which proved on further breeding to be P. M. W. H. AY. H. N. D. A new 

 characteristic of this hybrid was its millet-like stooling, because of which it 

 produced a greater amount of green fodder. In the Fi generation about 75 per 

 cent of the kernels of GO ears were white, and 25 per ciMit dark, indicating the 

 dominance of white. 



This hybrid did not breed true, as typical P. M. specimens appeared. In 1909, 

 when cultivated in a very hot, dry climate where irrigation was necessary, 

 6 out of the 20 plants grown stooled out and produced both male and female 

 flowers, and 13 produced only 1 stalk, each bearing the male flower only, while 

 1 bore the female flower. The author does not regard this phenomenon as 

 explainable by Meudelian methods, but attributes it to the abnormally high 

 temperature, which caused the male flower to develop earlier. 



A progress report is given of work with the lupine and Sturt pea {Clianthus 

 (lanipicri) . 



Maize at Bathurst Experiment Farm, R. W. Peacock (Agr. Gnz. N. S. Wale.9, 

 22 {1911), No. 11, pp. 961-966, figs. -^).— These pages describe in detail the cul- 

 tural methods by which corn was produced at a cost of 2s. 3d. per bushel. A 

 table states the results of a variety test and gives the dates of tasselling and 

 ripening of the varieties tested. 



Maize fodder experiments on the south coast, R. N. Makin {Agr. Oaz. 

 N. S. Wales, 22 {1911), No. 9, pp. 759-761).— These pages state the results of 

 fertilizer and variety tests with corn in 8 different localities. 



A cotton variation with a self -fertilized ancestry, S. M. Bain {Amer. 

 Breeders Mag., 2 {1911), No. J,, pp. 272-276, figs. 2).— Seed of a typical plant of 

 the Tennessee Greenseed cotton was taken in 1905 from within 4 miles of the 

 Mississippi River in Lauderdale Couuty, to the experiment station at Knoxville, 

 Tenn. Local adjustment variations, similar to those previously noted (E. S. R., 

 22, p. 36), were observed. The progeny of the selected plant showed no 

 apparent deterioration in vigor after 4 generations of self-fertilization secured 

 by baggiug. In 1910, 3 rows grown from the seed saved from a single plant in 

 1909 showed a distinct variation from the remainder of the crop. " Every 

 plant in these 3 rows was stout, strict in habit, and at least a third taller 

 than its cousins in the other rows. Moreover, the crop was quite late in 

 maturing." The seed was distinctly larger than that of the other rows, and 

 tended toward smoothness or absence of tuft. 



[Cotton on the experimental farms of Bengal, 1910—11], C. Sherraed 

 {Dept. Agr. Bengal, Quart. Jour., 5 {1911), No. 2, pp. 59-67,). — These pages 

 report the results of variety tests. Among 10 tests for which the financial re- 

 turns of cotton growing are stated, 2 resulted in profits and S in losses. 



Cotton growing- in Sind {Bui. Imp. Inst. [80. Kensington], 9 {1911), No. 

 3, pp. 2i7-227).— During the years 1909 and 1910 the department of agriculture 

 of the Bombay Presidency has conducted extensive tests of American Upland 

 and other varieties of cotton in Sind. The author regards American Upland 

 cotton of several varieties as very promising. Brief notes are given on samples 

 of Egyptian Mitaflfi and Egyptian Abassi samples produced, and on samples of 



