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Salt as a fertilizer for oats (pp. 116, 177 ■. — Five i)lats received salt at 

 the rate of 150 i)Ouuds per acre and 5 others alternating' with these 

 received no salt. The ave.ra<»e yield Avas 1^0.87 bnshels with salt and 

 28.02 bnshels per aero withont salt. 



Oats treated with hot water to preroit smut (i)p. 177-179). — The seed 

 for 5 plats was treated with hot water to i»revent siunt and for 5 other 

 plats was left nntr<'ated. The variety was in both eases lied Winter. 

 " A carefnl connt at harvest time revealed the fact that the plats on 

 which the seed had not been treated contained 15 per cent of smntted 

 heads, while the crop from the treated seed had none." The yield for 

 treated seed was 37.50 and for untreated seed 29.0l> bushels ])er acre, a 

 gain of nearly 8 bushels per acre from treatment. 



Test of varieties (pp. 179, 180). — Tabulated notes on 85 varieties. 



Kentucky Station, Bulletin No. 36, December, 1891 (pp. 4). 



Co:\[MKRCiAL FERTILIZERS, M. A. ScovELL, M. S. — Analyses ot 18 

 san>i)les of fertilizers, including ground bone and kainit. 



Kentucky Station, Bulletin No. 37, December, 1891 (pp. 16). 



Potato experiments. — Test of varieties (pp. 3-11). — Notes on 77 

 varieties of potatoes, together with the yield of large and small tubers, 

 the percentage of dry substance, and the specific gra^^ty. 



Test offrrtUizers (pp. 12-10). — The ground used for this test was the 

 same as that used in 1889 and 1890. Early Eose potatoes werei»lanted 

 on 10 tenth-acre plats, the seed being cut in halves and placed cut side 

 down and 14 inches apart in the rows, M'hich were 3 feet apart. Nitrate 

 of soda 100 pounds, boneblack 320 pounds, and muriate of potash 100 

 pounds were used singly, two by two, and all three combined on 7 plats, 

 and 3 plats remained unmanured. Field notes taken during the grow- 

 ing season, yields of potataes, and the financial results are tabuhited. 

 The largest total yield, 210 l)ushels per acre, was where the three mate- 

 rials were used together, the next largest where muriate of potash and 

 superphosphate were used together. " Potash greatly increased the 

 yield, wiiile phosi)horie acid and nitrogen had some beneficial effects. 

 While potash alone has a marked intluence in increasing the yield, 

 nevertheless when combined with acid black or nitrate of soda, or l)<)th, 

 the yield is still more increased." 



The largest net profit was with the use of muriate of ]iotash alone, 

 and the next largest where nuiriate of potash was used with super- 

 phosphate and with super[)h()sphate and nitrate of soda. 



Kentucky Station, Bulletin No. 38, March, 1892 (pp. 22). 



Tests of varieties of vegetables and strawberries, C. L. 

 Curtis. — Brief descriptive notes on 17 varieties of onions, 24 of let- 

 tuce, 14 of radishes, 34 of peas, 29 of cabbages, 22 of tomatoes, 30 of 



