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action. Except upon grass j^round, it is not imiirobaltk- fliat llie barrow, somewhat 

 nuxlilicd, inav grow in imiioifance when compared with the plow, unless the plow 

 becomes niddilied for special soils. 



Vermont Station, Bulletin No. 24. May, 1891 (pp. 16). 



Potato blight and eot, L. R. Jones, B. S. (pp. 19-32). — Brief 

 accounts of successful cxpciiineuts in spraying potato vines with Bor- 

 deaux mixture for [)otato rot {PIn/tophdiora iiifcstans). In one experi- 

 ment in 1890 a plat which was si)rayed twice yielded 165 bushels of 

 sound tubers, anotlier sjtrayed once yieUled 155 bushels, while a third 

 l)lat twice as large as either of the other two, which was left uns})rayed, 

 yielded only SO bushels. It was found feasible and desirable to com- 

 bine the Bordeaux mixture with the Paris green used for potato bugs. 

 Attemi)ts were made to disinfect tubers before planting by heating them 

 for a number of hours in a dry oven at 107.^^ to 100.^'^ F., in sealed jars 

 at 100 ' to 108'^ F., or by soaking them in water at 100^ to 108^ F., or in 

 solutions of sulphate of copper. The heating in a dry oven seems to 

 have been beneficial, but the other treatments were more or less injurious. 

 Examinations of samples of a number of varieties of potatoes showed 

 that in these cases the dry rot was worse at the seed end than at the 

 stem end. Details of the investigations on potato rot will be published 

 in the Annual IJeport of the station (or 1890. 



Vermont Station, Bulletin No. 25 (pp. 4). 



TuE bounty on maple sugar, W. \V. Cooke, M. A. (pp. 33- 

 36). — An explanation of the conditions under which the farmer can 

 secure the bounty formai)le sugar ottered by the national Government 

 in accordance with a recent act ot Congress. Tests made at the station 

 indicate that most of the sugar made in the State during the early 

 and middle parts of the season will test over SO degrees by the polari- 

 scoiie, and thus come up to the standard required b^' the law. The 

 station is making investigations with reference to methods of making 

 maple sugar, and will [)ublisli the results in a future bulletin. 



West Virginia Station, Bulletin No. 13, January, 1891 (pp. 63). 



The creamery industry, J. A. Myers, Ph. 1). (plates 1, figs. 

 0). — A reprint of an article on this subject published in the Annual 

 Keport of the station for 1890, i)p. L*9-88, an abstract of which was given 

 iu Experiment Station liecord, vol. in, p. 44. 



West Virginia Station, Bulletin No. 14, February, 1891 (pp. 17). 



Farm and garden insects and notes of the season, A. D. 

 Hopkins (pp. 05-79). — This is a reprint of articles published in the 

 Annual Keport of the station for 1890, pp. 145-159 (see Experiment 

 Station Kecord, vol. in, p. 46). 



