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of the Territory (?J7 ojffieio and five other members, T\v«» hiuirlred acres of 

 land offered by the citizens of Stillwater, Payne Connty, was accepted 

 as the site of the college and station. The board of regents was organ- 

 ized June 2ij, 1891, by the election of E. J. Barker as president and A. 

 A. Ewing as treavSurer. August 14, 1891, J. C. Neal. botanist and ento- 

 mologist of the Florida Station, was elected director, and November U5, 

 1891, A. C. Magruder, formerly of the West Virginia Station, was 

 ele<'ted agriculturist and horticulturist. December 2, 1891, plowing the 

 land for the experiment orchard began. Of the 160 acres which consti- 

 tute the station farm. 120 acres was unbroken prairie in the fall of 1891, 

 the remaining 40 acres being " 1.5 years from the sod." The erection of 

 suitable buildings will be at once begun and the station will undertake 

 such experiments as are required by the agricultural needs of a new 

 community. Since the soil and climate of the Territory seem to be 

 adapted to fruit growing, tests will be made of varieties of orchard and 

 small fruits. Forest and nut trees will be planted and questions relat- 

 iiigto the reforestation of the vast treeless ]»lains of the Territory will 

 l»e investigated. The growing of sorghum for sugar promises to be a 

 matter of niucli iiiipoitance to tliis section. !Methotls of reducing prairie 

 sod to arable liiiid will be studied in connection with e.\i»erinients to hud 

 out what < lops are best adapted to the region. 



Oregon Station, Bulletin No. 15, January, 1892 pp. 16). 



Tksi'S ok vh<;i:tahlks, (t. Coote. — Tomntotx. — Notes aii<l taltu 

 lated (lata are given for 5o varieties of tomatoes tested with rel'eren«'e to 

 earliness. The earliest varieties weie Livingston Perfection, Early King 

 lliiMilMMt, Li\ingston Beauty, Canlinal, Livingston Favorite, Al]tha, 

 an<l Ijaige K'ound Yellow. Plants juuned after the tVuit ha<l set yielded 

 large and superior fruit. Training on trellises was not juotitable. 

 Tobacco stems phued in the soil near young tomato plants prevented 

 injury by cutworms. 



Cahhotirs. — From seed sown September 25 th<> Hrst cabbage was cut 

 rlune 18. The results of germination tests of 3H varieties of cabbages 

 are tabulated. Tabulated data are also given for 27 varieties of cab- 

 bages sown in the spring. 



Pea.f. — New Alaska and First and Best peas sown November 14 came 

 to marketable maturity May 12 and 20 respectively. Tabulated data 

 are given for 24 varieties sown in the spring. 



Lrftmr. rtnlishps, and fnnllffmrrrs. — Notes and tabulated data on 15 

 varieties of lettuce, 8 of radishes, aiul (5 of caulitlowers. 



Rhode Island Station, Bulletin No. 13, September, 1891 (pp. 14). 



ANATvYSES of fertilizers, H. .1. WlIEELEK, PlI. D., AND B. L. 



Hartwell, B. S. (pp. 1<»1-172). — Analyses are given of 32 samples 

 of commercial fertilizers, including bone, and of homemade fertihzers, 



