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ripened its seed much earlier than the velvet or Lyon bean and is recommended 

 as a cover crop in citrus groves because it does not pi'oduce so rank a growth. 



Japanese cane cultivated 2, 4, and 6 in. deep yielded 16.6, 16.5, and 18 tons 

 of green material per acre, respectively, as compared with 17 tons on a plat 

 cultivated 6 in. deep at first and 2 in. deep afterwards. In a test of 8 applica- 

 tions of fertilizers (E. S. R., 24, p. 733), in 1909 much the highest calculated 

 yield of sirup followed an application of 112 lbs. dried blood, 84 lbs. sulphate of 

 potash, and 224 lbs. of acid phosphate. This plat also produced one of the high- 

 est yields in 1910. 



Hand-selected Lyon bean seed yielded 11.9 bu. per acre as compared with 

 10.96 bu. in case of seed taken as it came from the huUer. The kudzu vine 

 yielded about 2| tons of cured hay per acre at 2 cuttings, but as the vines made 

 "almost no growth after the second cutting, the author believes that 2 cuttings 

 per season is more than the plant will stand. This vine has not given promising 

 results thus far. 



The fourth consecutive crop of velvet beans yielded 13.9 bu. of shelled beans 

 per acre as comparetl with 21.76 bu. on an adjoining plat which had not previ- 

 ously grown velvet beans. White velvet beans yielded 15.23 bu. of shelled beans 

 per acre. Hand-selected seed yielded 11.98 bu. as compared with 16.1 bu. in 

 case of seed taken as it came from the huller. 



In a test of 9 varieties of corn, the Station, Evans, Poorland, and Rawls 

 varieties gave the highest yields in 1910. Winter frost injured the guinea grass 

 tested. Guinea grass fertilized with nitrate of soda, muriate of potash, and acid 

 phosphate yielded 3,370 lbs. of cured hay per acre, whereas a plat in which 

 dried blood was substituted yielded but 2,341 lbs. Para grass yielded 2,400 lbs. 



Report on the agricultural stations in the Central Provinces and Berar 

 for the year 1910-11 (Rpt. Agr. Stas. Cent. Prov. [India], 1910-11, pp. 115, 

 pis. 2). — This is a report of work at the experimental farms at Powarkhera, 

 Nagpur, Akola, Raipur, Telinkheri. Nawagaon, Ramtek, Bhandara, Chanda, 

 and Chhattisgarh, with results largely in harmony with those already noted 

 (B. S. R., 26, p. 232). 



At the Powarkhera farm the use of 20 lbs. of nitrogen applied in calcium 

 cyanamid or calcium nitrate was followed in each case by a much higher wheat 

 yield than the same amount of nitrogen applied in saltpeter, ammonium sul- 

 phate, a mixture of the two. oil cake, or farmyard manure; by sorghum yields 

 of 778 and 840 lbs. of grain per acre as compared with 570 lbs. on the check 

 plat ; and by yields of seed cotton of 221, 204, and 144 lbs. per acre, respectively. 

 A somewhat higher hay yield followed the application of a mixture of 41^ lbs. 

 of superphosphate and 25 lbs. of ammonium sulphate, than the same mixture in 

 addition to 10 lbs. of sulphate of potash, or various other mixtures. 



In a variety test of peanuts. Chinese No. 2 and Egyptian produced the highest 

 yields, and the latter is reported as entirely free from the "Ticca disease," 

 which slightly affected 3 varieties. Other work at this farm included work 

 with various implements, oats, wheat, gram (Cicer arieiinum), rye. sugar cane, 

 soy beans, velvet beans, flax, sesame, pigeon peas. Jalalia, and other crops. 



At the Akola farm applications of night soil after the Meagher system applied 

 every third year, bone dust and saltpeter, or 1-year-old poudrette, in amounts 

 supplying 20 lbs. of nitrogen per acre, were followed by 5-year average rice 

 yields decreasing in the order named. Other applications tested were castor 

 cake, dried leaves of trees, calcium cyanamid, cattle dung, and 640 maunds 

 (about 26.28 tons) of tank silt per acre. Equal applications of the same mate- 

 rials were used in other tests with rice, with rather similar" results. Planting 

 single seedlings in holes 6 in. apart produced much higher yields than when 

 bunches were planted. 



