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Observations icith the rain gauge, Jysimefers, and soil and air thermom- 

 eters, C. A. Zavitz (pp. 76, 77). — Tabulated .summaries for tbe moutbs 

 from May to September, inclusive. 



Field experiments, T. Shaw and C. A. Zavitz (pp. 100-114, 154-18G, 

 aud 214-253). — Tiiese iuchided tests of varieties and diftereiit dates of 

 seeding of barley, spring aud winter wheat, and oats ; tests of varieties 

 of peas, potatoes, turnips, mangel wurzels, aud carrots; experiments 

 in the cultivation and manuring of rape; rests of gra.sses for pastures, 

 singly and in mixtures; and cooperative experiments with fertilizers 

 on oats, and in the cultivation of corn. 



Barley, spring wheat, oats, and 2)>cis. — A summary of the experiments 

 with these kinds of grain is reprinted from IJulletin No. 58 of the 

 Ontario Station (see Exi)eriment Station Record, vol. ii, p. C75). The 

 detailed tabulated record includes data for 54 varieties of barley, 54 of 

 spring wheat, !>2 of (lats, and 20 of peas. In the experiments in sow- 

 ing grain at three different dates (May 1, 0, and 17), the best results 

 were obtained from the earliest sowing. 



Winter wheat. — Tabulated data are given for 1<S varieties from Ontario 

 seed and 10 from .'<eed from Germany, Russia, England, and France 

 A summary is reprinted from lUilletin No. 53 of the Ontario Station. 

 Of the Canadian varieties. Red Velvet Chaff, Lancaster, ]\Iartiu Amber, 

 and Volunteer gave tbe best results; of the foreign varieties, Galezien 

 Summer, White Square Head, Russian Odessa, aud Lamed Hybrid. 



Potatoes, turnips, mangelwurzels, and carrots. — Tabulated data are 

 given for 28 varieties of potatoes, 48 of turnips, 20 of mangelwurzels 

 aud 11 of carrots. 



Experiments with rape. — Experiments are reported with rape grown 

 on plats of loam, marl, claj', and muck soils, to which salt had been 

 applied at the rate of 400 pounds jier acre, on barley in 1888, and on oats 

 in 1889, as eomi)ared with rape grown on similar plats to wbich no salt 

 had been applied. In every case the yield was larger on the plats fer- 

 tilized with salt. The largest yield was on loam soil and the smallest 

 on the clay. In another experiment, in which nitrate of soda, dried 

 blood and scrap, salt, superi)hosphate, aud unleached wood ashes were 

 used singly and compared with no manure, nitrate of .»^oda produced 

 tbe largest increase in yield. Level culture gave better results than 

 drilling in both 1880 and 1800. In an experiment in which 4 pounds of 

 seed i)er acre were sown in drills and the plants on some of the i»lats 

 were thinned to 15 inches apart, the thinning very materially reduced 

 the yield. 



rasture grasses. — The results of an 8 years' test of 15 species of 

 grasses grown singly on twentieth-acre plats, are briefly reported in a 

 table. Tbe most enduring varieties are stated to be meadow foxtail, 

 wood meadow grass, rough-stalked meadow grass, various-leafed fescue, 

 sheep's fescue, hard fescue, and red fescue. The mixtures of gra^s 

 found to be most reliable in this locality are meadow foxtail, orchard 



