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(4) Pearl millet has been a failure for tlireo successive seasons, owing mainly to 

 the apparent impossibility of j^ettin;^ a stand. 



(5) Spring vetches failed to produce a paying crop in 1890. 

 (G) Yellow lupine was a failure in 1890. 



(7) When roots or silage are not grown, Kansas stock melons can be grown and 

 fed to advantage along with hay or other dry fodder. The yield is heavy, and the 

 cost of culture and handling but slight. 



(8) Thonsand-headed kale will give a fair yield of forage, but heavier crops of 

 more palatable feed can be grown at the same cost. 



(9) Certain early varieties of the Japanese .soja be.an promise to be of much value 

 for this country as heavy producers of a highly nitrogenous food. 



(10) Coir Inchri/ma and Pauiciim //HHiPM/nceHnj, two Japanese forage plants, were 

 failures hero in 1^90. 



(11) In a test during the past dry season of fourteen varieties of silage corn, only 

 the following four kinds yielded more than 1*2 tons of silage per acre, viz, Mo.'sby Pro- 

 lific 14.:?9, Shee])'s Tooth 1'2.92, Southern Horse Tooth 1'2.:?7. and Shoe Peg l-2.ir> tons 

 per acre. 



(12) A verdict of "not proven" must be given in the trial of growing a mixture of 

 corn and sorghum rs. corn and sorghum grown singly, though there is some evidence 

 in sujiport of the theory that a mixture increases the yield. 



Kansas Station, Bulletin No. 19, December, 1890 (pp. 10). 



Notes on VEfJKTAiu.Ks, H. A. Popknoe, M. A., and S. C Mason, 

 B. S. (pp. VXW2()\1). — The iiermindtinn of irccvilitl peas. — In view of dilVcr- 

 enccs of opinion jjinon": autlioritios n.s to tlio amount of injury to tlio 

 seed of peas froui the attacks of tlie i)ea weevil {Ilruchus pisi), the foUow- 

 ing experiments were made at the station: 



A germination test of weeviled beans in the greenhouse gave out of 1,800 beans, 

 representing eighteen sorts, the following results: Fifty per cent started ; of these, 

 three lifths might have grown into plants, as the injury was restricted to the seed 

 leaves; but the remaining two lifths were variously mutilated by the loss of a part 

 or the whole of the germ or jduunile, so tli.at umler no circumstances could they have 

 made plants. * * * In a check lot of perfect beans of the same varieties .and in 

 the same numbers, planted side by side, 9r> per cent germinated. 



Of fiOO pea.s of ten sorts tested in a similar manner, but one fourth germinated, 

 and the parli.il destination of the cotyledons rendered the further growth of these 

 doubtful. A check lot of tlu' same number of souml i)eas gave a germination of 97 

 per cent. An examination of 27.") injured peas showed but (!9 in which the germ w;ia 

 rot wholly or partially destroyed. 



In a held test of the growth of sound as compared with weeviled peas, the result* 

 ■were more decisive froui a practical standpoint. In this test 2M varieties were repre- 

 sented, each by 100 sound and 100 weeviled peas, taken as they came, without further 

 selection. The seeds were planted in the garden in parallel rows, the .sound and 

 Tvoeviled peas of each" sort side by side, the rows 18 inches apart. The planting wa.s 

 done on the .^)th of June, and the dryness of the .season hindered the perfect germina- 

 tion and growth to a noticeable degree. Of the sound peas ()8 per cent came np, and 

 (54 per cent made strong plants. In 10 varieties of the weeviled peas, no seeds ger- 

 minated; the remaining 43 varieties were represented in all by r>8 plant^s or 4.4 per 

 cent, in germination, of which but 49, or 3.8 per cent, grew to average size and 

 strength. 



The inference is plain that weeviled seed should not be planted, because it is 

 worthless compared with sound seed, and because by planting infested seed without 



