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Yields of the most productive varieties of field crops in 1910 in tests in various 



sections of Indiana. 



Beport on the Partabgarh Agricultural Station for the year ending June 

 30, 1910, S. M. Hadi (Rpt. Partahgarh Agr. 8ta. United Prov. Agra and Oudh, 

 1910, pp. 8). — Meteorological data and analyses of the station's soil and subsoil 

 are followed by reports of variety and other tests of rice, com, sugar cane, 

 and M'heat. 



Progress of grain investigations, C. Willis and M. Champlin (South 

 Dakota Sta. Bui. 12Ji, pp. 20-55, chart 1). — A projiress repoi't of cooperative 

 experiments conducted by the South Dakota Station and this Department at 

 the Highmore, Eureka, and Cottonwood substations. Seasoiial conditions and 

 the methods pursued are stated and the Eureka and Cottonwood substations 

 briefly described. Tables report the jaelds of common wheat, durum wheat, 

 emmer, oats, barley, millet, and grain sorghums for the year 1909, the com- 

 parative results of ordinary and improved methods of growing grains in 1910, 

 and the average yields secured in five-year variety tests. The improved 

 methods used consisted in carefully grading pure seed, planting it in rows in 



1909. grading the seed thus obtained, and planting the best in 1-100 acre plats 

 in 1910 on land that had been in cultivated alfalfa rows during 1908 and 1909. 



The author states that recent analyses " show that northwestern Velvet 

 Chaff has improved as regards quality of gluten and percentage of patent flour 

 so that the discrepancy in milling value may not affect the market price much 

 in the future." The Beardless Fife wheats graded as well as Blue Stem and 

 ripened two or three days earlier. In a variety test of 14 wheats Manchuria 

 No. 2492 produced the highest yield of 21.2 bushels per acre. It was also the 

 earliest variety in the test. Of durum wheats the Kubanka types appeared 

 best suited to central South Dakota conditions. 



Because of the variable seasons an early and a late variety of oats. Sixty 

 Day or Kherson and Swedish Select, are recommended to South Dakota farmers. 



In a test of 14 Foxtail and Proso millets, Kursk No. 78, a variety introduced 

 from Russia, produced the heaviest yield of forage, but the common variety 

 seeded more heavily. Milo maize, Kafir corn, and the durras will not mature 

 seed with certainty under South Dakota conditions, but selections are being 

 made in the hope of securing strains that will mature during the short seasons. 

 The kowliangs matured seed of excellent quality in 114 to 115 days in 1909 and 



1910. New breaking, brome grass sod, and com ground proved successful as 

 preparations for flax, but after fall-plowed wheat this crop was a failure because 

 of flax wilt. 



