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of food material for silage (leaves and ears) was obtained when the rows 

 were 3.5 feet ai)art and the stalks 4 inches apart in the row. Next to 

 this the best results were leached when tlie rows were 3 feet apart and 

 the stalks from 12 to 10 inches, or the rows 3.5 feet and the stalks 8 to 

 12 inches, with but little choice between them." 



Removal of tassels (pp. 200, 201). — Notes and tabulated data ou an 

 experiment witli St. Charles corn on 12 small phits, each c<»nt:iining 

 5 rows 3.5 feet apart. The plats were located in the midst of corn tields, 

 so that there was no lack of pollen to fertilize the detasseled rows. The 

 tassels were removed from day to day as they appeared. The results 

 are summed up as follows: 



Total weight of ears tVoiu rows witli tassels removed ]>ouiids. . 1, 133. 50 



Totiil iiiiiuher of ears from rows with tassels removed 1. IS-. 00 



Average weiglit per ear from rows with tassels removed ]ioiiiid.. (1.64 



Total weiglit of ears from rows with tassels remaiuing pounds.. Gl>:^. 00 



Total uumber of ears from rows with tussels remaiiiiug 1, 1 OS. 00 



Average weight i)er ear from rows with tassels remaining pi>un<l.. (i. GO 



Yield per acre, tassels removed luislicls.. 107. iH) 



Yield per acre, tassels remaining do 94. 70 



In favor t<f removing tassels Imsluls.. 13. L'O 



Vlaster and oil meal as f'vrtHhtrs (pp. 201, 202). — Plaster and eastor 

 bean ixmiace were each applied at the rate of 200 pountls per m-vv on 

 a considerable number of jilats and wire compared with ii»> inanure. 

 Neither of the fertilizers had any effect on the yield. 



Treatment of seed earn nitli eteosotefor smut (pp. 202, 203). — 8t, Charles 

 corn was soaked for 12 hours before planting in solutions containing 

 from 0.5 to 50 i)er cent of creosote. Only where the weakest solution 

 wasused did any (»r the corn germinate, and in that case the pertuMitiige 

 of seed germinating was only 55. Even when a 0.1 i>er cent solution 

 was used tlie yield was nniterially reduced. 



Test of varieties (pp. 203-200). — Tabulated data for 140 varieties. 

 The following gave the best results in the onler mtmed: Maiiiiiioth 

 White Dent, llartman Early White, Silver Mammoth Yelhiw, JMammoth 

 Ivory Dent, North Star, Piasa Queen, Learning, Pride of Kansas, 

 Legal Tender, and Large (Tolden Dent, the yields ranging from SO to 01 

 bnshels per acre. Those found to be excellent silage varieties were 

 Hiawasse Mammoth, Little Red Cob, ^Fo.sby Prolific, and Parrish 

 White. 



Kansas Station. Bulletin No. 31, December, 1891 (pp. 17). 



Sugar beets in Kansas, G. H. Failykr, M. S., and J. T. Wil- 

 LARD, M. S. (pp. 200-223). — An account is given of the arrangements 

 made by the station for a test of sugar beet« of difterent vaiieties by 

 about 300 farmers in 50 counties of the State. Analyses of a large 

 number of samples sent to the station and of beets grown at the station 



