94 



Annual summaries of meteorological obsej-vations, 1881-90 — Contiaoed. 



WIND. 



Tear. 



1861 



1882 

 18H:f 



1884 

 1885 

 1886 

 1887 

 18K8 

 1889 

 1800 



Movement 

 per month. 



Milei. 

 6,422 

 6.704 

 6,596 



5,987 

 6, 08G 

 5,876 

 4,823 

 4.900 

 5.277 

 5,491 



Average 



hourly 



velocity. 



MiU$. 

 8. 



g. 



9. 



Maximum velocity. 



8 76, 

 2 72, 

 I 93, 



Prevailing 

 direction. 



8.2 68, 



8. 3 98, 

 8.0 56, 

 C. C 82 

 6.7 06 

 7. 2 84, 



7.4 63, 

 I 



MiU4. 



N. E., April 14. at Kitty Hawk N. E. 



N..Dec.30,at Hatt.Tas S. W. 



S.E., Sept. ll.iU Soulhport X. E. and 



I S. W. 



S. E., Jan.H, at Fort Ma<-on N. E. 



S. \V., Aug. 25, at Kitty Hawk S. W. 



X., May 1, at Kilty Hawk S. \V. 



S. E.. A\ie. 2;i, at liatteraa S. \V. 



X., Xov. 2">, at Hatteraa ' S. \V. 



E.Mar. 1"J, at Kilty Hawk ! S. W. 



N.E... Sept. 29, at Kitty Hawk S. W. 



WEATHER. 



1881. 

 1882. 

 18811. 

 1881. 

 18.-<5. 

 188C. 

 18S7. 

 1.K88. 

 1889. 

 1890. 



Year. 



No. 

 rainy 

 days. 



125 

 145 

 13.T 

 136 



i:t8 



127 



llio 



121 

 113 

 107 



Ohio station, Bulletin Vol. IV. No. 1 (Second Series), January, 1891 (pp. 38). 



Experiments with <;orn, C. K. Thorne and J. F. Uickman, 

 M. S. A. — This article rei)orts in detail the experiments with corn 

 conducted by the station in 18!K), tojjether with summaries of similar 

 exi)eriments in previous years. Tiie subjects treate<l are, (1) tests of 

 varieties; (2) distribution of seed; (3) i)lanting of seed from dilferent 

 parts of tbe ear; (4) deep vs. shallow cultivation ; (5) methods of har- 

 vestiu"]^; (0) tests of varieties of silajje corn ; and (7) field experiments 

 with fcrtili/ers at the station and elsewhere in Ohio. Previous accounts 

 of experiments with corn may be found in the Annual Report for 1888 

 and in Bulletins vol. iii, Nos. 2 and 3, of the station (see Experiment 

 Station IJuUetin No. 2, part ii, p. 113, and Experiment Station Record, 

 vol. II, pp. 121 and KJo). "The season of lSt)0 was peculiarly unfav- 

 orable to corn, tlie almost incessant rains of spriu}; and early summer 

 interfering seriously with plantiufjf and cultivation, after which a severe 

 drouth retarded j^rowtli." The averajje yield j)er acre in the test of 

 varieties in 1880 was (J'J.5 bushels, while in 18iH) it was only 57.6 bushels. 



Corn, test of varieties (pp. 3-17). — The test of varieties at tbe station 

 in 1800 was conducted on tenth-acre plats on fertile river bottom land. 

 The stand obtained from the first planting (May 29) was so poor that 



