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mnrecaro than nanally taken to destroy tlio contained woovils, ono tlins simply propa- 

 f^ates thu in.soct for tlio .sak«) of a niinininni of rt'tnni in plaulH. Tlii' proper course 

 is to tlirow infested seed into the lire as soon as th(! insects are detecte<l. As an easy 

 mode of separatinj; tiie sonnd from the nnsound seed, it is 8nj;<xested by Professor 

 Jiiicty, in his Tiiird Missonri Kt^po^t, tiiat if thrown into water tln^ infested si-rd will 

 Uoat, while tlie sound seed, Itein^if lieavitsr, will sink. 



Second-crop potdfo seed. — TalmlatcMl data are given for an cxpci iiuont 

 in wliich potatoes worn jjjrown from tlic seed of fust and second crops. 

 The r«'siilts indicated tiiat by tlie use of second-crop seed, tiiere is no 

 gain in earliness, but the yield and size of tubiMs are greater. In a 

 second cro]> of potatoes grown in ISOO at tiic station, tiie nine varieties 

 l)ianted yielded from (»7 to 17.} bushels per acre. "The jnoduct was of 

 nnnsnally line (inality and the yield a very good one, when it is con- 

 sidered that potatoes of ordinary planting were almost a failure in this 

 section of the country." 



Varieties of heans. — Out of 194 varieties planted in 18!J() only 10 sur- 

 vived the drouth sulliciently to give even a moderate yield, (^f these, 

 Henderson Bush Lima, Dwarf Carolina, and a local variety known as 

 IJelcher gave especially good results. Desciiptjve notes are given on 

 10 varieties of .Japanese beans grown at the station. 



Cahbagcu. — The following varieties proved the most i)roductivc in the 

 dry season of 1800: Early. — Burpee All Head. l''arly Newark Flat 

 Dutch, Early Schweinturth ; mcdiion. — Hendeison Succession, liey- 

 nolds, Cassell ; late. — Ilendersou Selected Late Flat Dutch, Burpee 

 Surehead, Warren Improved. 



Maine Station, Annual Report, 1890, Part II* (pp. 48). 



Test of dairy cows (pp. 17-4'J). — This is a continuation of the test 

 of Ayrshire, IIolstein,aud Jersey cows, the tirst yeai's repoit of 

 which was given in the Annual Beport of the station for 1S8I>, p. 100 

 (see I'jxperiment Station Becortl, vol. ii, j). 017). Each breed was rep- 

 resented by two registered cows, although tiie test with one of th(^ 

 Holsteins lasted but a single year. The food given in IsOO was the 

 same as in 1S80, except that no silage was fed and that one llolstein 

 received a certain amount of middlings (170 pounds during the year) in 

 addition to the regular ration. The daily ration consisted of to 8 

 l)oun<ls of a mixture of two parts by weight of corn meal, and one each 

 of cotton-seed \uo:i\ and wheat bran, as much hay as the animals could 

 eat clean, and ])asturage during the summer months. A recj)rd was 

 kept of the amount of each kind of food consume<l by each of the cows 

 during 18S0 and 1800. In the i)resent report the results for the 2 years 

 are considered together. 



Tabulated data are given for each cow as to the food eaten during 

 the 2 years, cost of the same, yield and relations of njilk and milk 



*For abstract of part l of this report, see Experiment Station Record, vol. il, p. 345. 



