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Horses woarini? Llankets Itf^iieath their harness in the day and blanketed in tho 

 stables at night did not hold their weight as well as those witliont blankets. 



Cattle with blankets in the stable did not thrive as well as those withont blankets. 



Steers tnrnod oat daily aud those kept in loos(^ box stalls did better than those tied 

 lip, indicating that exercise or liberty is luMielicial. 



Utah Station, Bulletin No. 12, March, 1892 (pp. 12). 



Tests of varieties of vegetables, E. S. IIichman, B. S.— 

 Notes ou 37 varieties of sweet corn, 25 of radishes, 23 of beets, and 38 

 of lettuce. The following- varieties are especially commended: kStveet 

 corn. — Early Marblehead, Cory, Landreth Sugar, and Old Colony. 

 i?rt/7/.s'/<es.— Salzer Twenty-Day Forcing (early), Xew White Strasburg 

 (second early). Celestial (summer), and Chinese White (winter). Beets. — 

 Salzer Eed Beauty (early), Half Long Blood, and Red Beauty (late). 



Washington Station, Bulletin No. 3, February,' 1892 (pp. 30). 



Report of farmers' institute at Garfield, Washington 

 (pp. 41-70). — This includes papers anddiseussions on the following sub- 

 jects at the farmers' institute lield at Garfield, Washington, February 

 20, 1892: Government Aid for the College, by G. Lilley, Ph. D.; Tlie 

 Sugar Beet, by C. A. Gwinn; Farm Dairying, by J. O'B. Scobey, M. A.; 

 The Pathology, Causes, and Treatment of Bone Spavin, by C. E. Munn, 

 V. S.; Wheat Growing-, by R. C. M'Croskey; A Word about Wind- 

 Breaks, by E. R. Lake, M. S.; Handling and Marketing Grain, by J. O. 

 Courtright; and Strangles or ('olt Distemper, by C. E. Munn, V. S. 



West Virginia Station, Bulletin No. 20, January, 1892 (pp. 18). 



Potato culture and fertilization, D. D. Johnson, M. A. (pp. 

 131-143, plate 1). — Trials were made on 10 plats of completel}' worn-out 

 laud, each 1 rod wide and 8.30 rods long, with the primary object of 

 determining the effect of kainit used alone and in combination with 

 phosphoric acid and nitrogen, and to test tlie effects on the yield of 

 using different amounts of seed cut to halves, quarters, and single eyes. 

 Tlie plats Avere se]nira.ted by unfertilized strips 3 feet wide, 1 i)lat 

 renniining unmanured. On the other 1) i)lats 21, .'JL"), and 42 pounds of 

 kainit, respectively, were used alone, and the last two amounts were also 

 usihI with 8.34 pounds of nitrate of soda or 21 pounds of superphosphate, 

 or both. The potatoes were planted in rows 3.83 I'eet apart running 

 across the plats, 36 rows on each ]>lat. The first 12 rows of each plat 

 were ])lanted with Early Rose, the second Avith White Star, and the 

 third 12 with Beauty of Hebi'on. In the case of each of these varie- 

 ties whole potatoes, halves, (luarters, aud single eyes were planted. 

 The yields of large and small potatoes with different fertilizers aud 

 the yield of tubers and number and vigor of stalks from using whole 

 potatoes and pieces of potatoes for seed, are tal»ulated, and the plate 

 show s the tubers and plants from fertilized plats, lu general the yields 



