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liowever, the majority of people prefer the sour-creani butter. It is said, and 

 «loiil.tl<«8 justly, that thi-s i.s largely a matter of f.lii,ati..ii. and that after a Ion • 

 trial the uiibia-st-d taste alway.s inclines to the pro.lu< t of th.- ixtra.tor. \\h. 

 properly made and k.pt in a .ool place this butter rivals in firmnes.s and appearance 

 the best of the other makes. It is not considered, however, to stand handling 

 warm weather, or shipment so well. The analyses -iven show no notable quanti- 

 tative difference from the other kinds, except that there is usuallv considerably 

 more water. The acidity is practically the same as that of the sweet-cream bntteV 

 made in the churn. * • * 



[It is belicve.l that the use of the extractor would result in no saving of poWeror 

 hand labor,] hen.eone feels justified in con.lu.liiig that if the quality of the butter 

 be left out of account, the extractor, as at ^iresent, offers no substantial advan- 

 tage that IS not outweighed by defects, and that it would not allow any saving in 

 expenseover t lie pHM-ess it is designed to supplant. * * • Its future develop- 

 ment is proI>ably a question of the relative merits of sweet-cream butter and sour- 

 cream butter. If experience and an educated taate shall tinallv favor tlie l..r i, 



the extractor may be expected to take the jdace of the s.parator and th.- chunii 

 but unless the de.ision shall fall in that direction it is doubtful if the new device 

 ever comes into g.-iieral use. 



Florida Station, Bulletin No. 16. January 1. 1892 pp. 14). 



EXPEIUMENT.-; WITH VAKKH S (ROP.s! AND WITH SILAGE. J. V. 



DkPas.^^.— Aocouiits an' <,nv('ii of rxiM-riinciits in l,s;»l with «orii, rice, 

 su^rjir cant', Texas hhw ^^lass, and .utton. Tlir sea.sou was nnnsually 

 dry. Kx]«'rinu'nts with composts on com and i-otton indicated tliat 

 thcapi)lication ofiron in the fonu <.f coppnas was lu'iu'ticial on tin- 

 sandy .soil ottlM' station. Tlic stiiiipini; of t-oni for fodder decreased 

 the yiehl .somewhat and was of donlitfnl advantaffe. Snjr;;e.stions ar. 

 nnule rcgardinff hay makinjr and the cultivation of corn witli reference 

 to the repression of the weevil. Kiee on old. .sandy land did not «lo well 

 even wlien heavily f.-rtili/e<l. hnt was more sncce.ssfully prown on hot 

 tom land. Snpir cane was ^^rown with comj»arative success on " fresh 

 hammock," but has proved a failure on cdd and hifrh land. Texas hliir 

 grass (Port (irarlnil/rrfnhiis done well at the station durin;r the past 

 three sea.sous and pr.»mi.ses to be valuable for winter pastnra^je in Fhu 

 ida. Experiments with a cheap wooden silo have indicated the .superior 

 ity of corn for sila«;e and the desirability of «iittin^' up the material 

 before stora^^e. The usefulness of the silo in I'loi ida is (hmbtful. 



Georgia Station, Bulletin No. 15. December. 1891 (pp. 40). 



FeKTILI/EK EXI'EKIMENT.^ on rnlJN. H. J. KeD1)IN(J (pp. 91-104). 



Mtro(,rn expnimcnt (pp. !)1-<U)).— This is a rejietition on the .same 

 plats of the experiment of the previous s«'ason, described in Bulletin No. 

 10 of the station (see Exi>eriment Station b'ec-ord, vol. ii, p. ."»()). The 

 nitrogenous fertilizers— nitrate<.fs<Kla,sulphateofammonia,driedbUxMl. 

 and cotton-seed meal— were used alone and combined with muriate of 

 potash and superpho.sphate in single, double, and triple lations. There 

 were '2o plats of about three fortieths of an acre each. The analyses 



