134 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Seed time and harvest time of crops grown in Bengal (CaJcuttu: Dcpt. Agr. 

 Jicufjul, 1908, PI). 11+27). — Tables are given showing tlie time of seeding and 

 harvesting cereal, leguminous, vegetable, spice, oil. drug, dye, fiber, and mis- 

 cellaneous crops in the different districts of P.engal. 



Notes on some introduced plants of southern California, I, S. B. I'akisii 

 (Muhlenbergia, 5 (1909), No. 8, pp. 109-115). — This article notes the introduc- 

 tion during or prior to 1888 of Bromus rubens and B. maximus var. gussoni 

 into the San Bernardino Valley. The introduction was through the agency of 

 foul seed grain. Both varieties spread rajiidly and are now the most widespread 

 and abundant grasses of the region. Either one established excludes the other 

 or any other form of vegetation. 



Soft chess, mainly B. hordeaceus var. mtermcdiun has spread rapidly since 

 1895 as far east along the Southern Pacific Railway as Rochester. It is less 

 objectionable than the 2 bromes, but of little forage value, although recom- 

 mended for thin sandy land that will not support better grasses. 



Other bromes noted are B. madritensis, introduced about 1887, B. arenarius, 

 rarely found, and B. secalinus found in southern California. Setaria glavca is 

 reported as persisting a few years when introduced, but disappearing when 

 overgrazed, without tendency to spread in any case. Rare stools of timothy 

 and orchard grass are reported as mere waifs. Cenchrus tribuloides is well 

 established and destined to become a serious pest. Johnson grass (Sorghum 

 halepense) flourishes by the roadsides, in waste places, and in alfalfa and cul- 

 tivated lands but is not troublesome. Lamarclcia aurea is common but recom- 

 mended only for its beauty. Gastridiuni lendigerum is common only in the 

 coastal region but may extend inland as a few plants were found in San Ber- 

 nardino in 1907. 



Report of the animal husbandman, F. C. Minkler (Neiv Jersey Stas. Rpt. 

 1908, pp. 25-'il). — A brief account is given of the woi'k on the college farm for 

 the year. 



The more successful soiling crops with their yield per acre in tons and their 

 cost per ton for growing and harvesting, were as follows: Rye, 6.38 tons at $1.02 

 per ton ; wheat, 5.3 tons at 79 cts. per ton ; oats and peas, 8.79 tons at $1.41 

 per ton ; Japanese barnyard millet, 7.05 tons at $2.59 per ton ; barnyard millet 

 with silage, 6.95 tons at $1.85 per ton; Thoroughbred White Flint corn, 10.5 

 tons at $1.32 per ton; rowen (green), 78 cts. per ton; cowpeas, 4 tons at $2.94 

 per ton ; and cowpeas and Kafir corn, 2.75 tons at $4.07. Oats and Canada field 

 peas were i-egarded as the most successful forage crop except alfalfa. 



Among the field crops, mixed hay produced an average yield per acre of .3.77 

 tons, 4 cuttings of alfalfa, 2.02 tons, and oats and peas, 2.82 tons of cured hay. 



On seed-corn plats Reid Yellow Dent produced at the rate of 70 bu. per acre. 

 Improved Learning 08..57 bu.. Silver King 71.8 bu., and Boone County White 84.6 

 bu. on the tasseled rows. The detasseled rows produced yields from 3 pk. to 

 4 bu. in excess of these figures, except for Reid Yellow Dent, for which the two 

 yields were exactly equal. 



In a field test of varieties, Boone County White yielded 49.4 bu. per acre, 

 white corn from Monmouth County .53.1 bu., yellow corn from Gloucester County 

 26.2 bu., and yellow corn from Middlesex County 19.9 bu. 



Twenty-three acres of corn after rye, planted on June 1, with cowpeas drilled 

 in at the first cultivation, produced 214.8 tons of silage, at a total cost per ton 

 of $3.51 in the silo. 



In a fertilizer experiment with silage corn, 8.86 tons per acre were produced 

 on plats fertilized with 300 lbs. basic slag, 200 lbs. tankage, and 100 lbs. 

 muriate of potash per acre. On plats fertilized with 120 lbs. of tankage, 

 100 lbs. ground bone, 250 lbs. acid phosphate, and 100 lbs. of muriate of 



