512 



Weight per gtriick bushel. 



Aver.ige 



Maxiuiuni 



Mmimiiiii 



liange HuTcent.. 



Wheat i Wheat ; ^y, . 



poured and poured and j:_n„i 



shaken, i pressed. : «'PP«^- 



Pounds. 



66.50 



C7. 00 



CO. 00 



1.00 



1.52 



Pounds. 



67.23 



67. 50 



67.00 



0.50 



0.75 



Pounds. 



63.60 



63.75 



63.50 



0.25 



0.39 



The method employed iu the third trial is the one recommended by millers, aud 

 although it gives tin- lightt-.st weight per struck bushel, as would be expected, it is 

 evidently the fairest of the three methods used in these trials of the tester. 



These trials show (1) that wheat may be readily compressed into a more compact 

 mass; (2) that slight differences in the rate of tilling a measure will increase or 

 reduce the quantity of wheat that the measure will hold ; aud (3) that uniformity in 

 filling the tester is just as important as great care in taking the samples to be 

 weighed. The plain lesson of the experiment is that a number of fair samples of the 

 wheat to be graded should be taken, and each weighed several times in a careful and 

 nuiforni manner, and the average weight of the samples taken torejireseut the actual 

 weight per struck bu.shel of grain. If the above-named i)i>ccaulions are carefully 

 observed the grain tester will show, with ajiproximate aecuracy, the average weight 

 of the wheat per struck bushel, and it is tlierefnre recommended as an unvarying 

 and im])artial standard for grading wheat. 



Wheat scab, J. C. Arthur, D. Sc. (pp. 1l'!)-1;32).— In 1S<)1 an 

 obscnre funj^fous disea.'^e of wheat cau.sed tlio loss i)f 10 to LM) jier cent of 

 the croi) in certain tiehls near La Fayette, Indiana. It caii.'^es i)arts of 

 the hea<ls to appear i)ieniatiiiely ripe, the kernels attected being shriveled 

 and worthless. 



The nn)st prominent feature of the disease is tlie jircsenee. in the advanced stages, 

 of a pinkish C(dor over the surface of the chatf, espeeially along the eilges and at the 

 ba.se. This color belongs to a very thin layer of adhesive substance whiih glues the 

 chatV together over the grain, and gives rise to the name scab. " * *■ 



The fungus belongs to the genus Fiixi.iporiiim, or, acconling to the later elassilica- 

 tion of I'role.s.sor .Saccardo. to Fiiaarhim. It may be the form reported upon wheat 

 in England by Mr. W. G.Smith, anil called by him Funisporium viilmonim, but it is 

 difficult to be certain from his brief description. 



remits of several thousand heads of wheat indicated tliat late sown 

 and poorly grown wheat sulVcrcd most, but there was no great dillcrence 

 in the amount of injury to different varieties. 



Forms of nitrogen for wheat, H. A. Huston, M. A. (pp. I;i3- 

 138)._The results are tabulated for 03 i)lats, each 4!)^ by 4 feet ami 

 separated by strii)S 1 foot wide, half of which received 7 ounces of nitro- 

 gen each either as nitrate of soda, dried blood, or ammonium sulphate, 

 applied either all at once or in two or three fractions. 



Indiana Station, Bulletin No. 37, December, 1891 (pp. 12). 



Comparison of cut with uncut clover hay, C. S. ruMB, 

 B. S. (pp. 130-143).— This comparison was made on eight yearling Short- 

 horn steers, wliich Icnl i)re\i()usly been at i>astiire, and lasted from 



