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Nebraska Station, Bulletin No. 19 (pp. 12). 



Farm notes for 1891, C. L. Ingersoll, M. S. (pp. 203-214, plates 

 3). — Xotes and tabulated data on 6 varieties of spring and 27 of winter 

 wheat, 3 of rye, 4 of barley, 5 of eorn, 13 of sweet corn, 2 of pop corn, 

 2 of broom corn, 3 of Hax, 4 of sorghum, 3 of sweet potatoes, 7 of pota- 

 toes, 1 of peanuts, and 8 of onions; also on 5 species of osier willows 

 and \3 of grasses and clovers; and on Lathyrus .sylvcstris^ Chinese potato 

 bulblets, Stachys tubers, Kaffir corn, and Jerusalem corn. 



An experiment in topping corn is reported in which the yield seems 

 to have been reduced by this treatment. The season Avas remarkable 

 for its excessive rainfall and the prevalence of fungous diseases. The 

 plates accompanying the bulletin contain illustrations of the heads of 

 27 varieties of winter wheat tested. 



New Jersey Stations, Special Bulletin M, November 23, 1891 (pp. 19). 



Field experiments with soil and black rots of sweet 

 POTATOES, B. D. Halsted, D. Sc. — A report on experiments carried 

 on in continuation of tliose recorded in the Annual IJeport of the sta- 

 tion for 1890 (see Experiment Station Kecord, vol. ill, p. 307). Kefer- 

 euce is made to the descriptions of black rot {Ceratoei/fitis Jimbnata) 

 and soil rot {Acrocysfis batata') in Bulletin Xo. 70 of the station (see 

 Experiment Station Eecord, vol. ii, p. 410). In 1891 experiments with 

 reference to the iuHuence of diflerent kinds of manures and fertilizers 

 on the amount of soil rot and black rot, were conducted in a field that 

 had been badly infested with soil rot. Tliesc experiments were in two 

 series, one on 19 twentieth-acre plats and the other on 4 smaller 

 plats. The results are stated in tables and notes and are illustrated 

 with a diagram. In estimating the influence of the dift'erent fertilizers 

 ttie tubers of the crop were classified as follows: (1) Large sound pota- 

 toes free from rot, (2) sound potatoes designated " seconds," (3) pota- 

 toes affected with black rot, (4) large marketable jjotatoes affected with 

 soil rot, and (5) small marketable j^otatoes affected with soil rot. The 

 result of each series of experiments may be summarized in the follow- 

 ing table : 



