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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



[Vol.38 



and climate, and of the substation located there. The altitude of the locality 

 is given as 4,300 ft. The annual average precipitation at Moccasin from 1898 

 to 1915, inclusive, was 16.66 in., and the average seasonal rainfall from April 

 to July, inclusive, for the same years, 9.41. 



The leading varieties of the different cereals grown in the experiments are 

 compared in the following table: 



Annual and average yields and average farm value of the leading variety of each 

 of the cereals groion at the Judith Basin substation. 



Crop and variety. 



Yield per acre. 



1910. 



1911. 



1913. 



1914. 



1915. 



Aver- 



Acre 

 value 



of 

 crop 



Lbs. 



Kharko f winter wheat I 2, 880 



Pelissier spring wheat i 630 



Sixty-day oat 1,056 



White Smvma barley I 590 



Xepal barley I 984 



Russian tla.x 



I 



Lbs. 



2,478 



1,698 



2,278 



2,490 



1,800 



1,070 



Lbs. 

 1,866 

 1,920 

 2,409 

 3,360 

 2,220 

 930 



Lbs. 

 1,470 

 1,590 

 1,88S 

 2,400 

 1,542 

 728 



Lbs. 



2,964 



2,530 



2,998 



3,854 



2,508 



1,232 



Lbs. 



2,331 



1,673 



2,126 



2,540 



1,810 



1,002 



$31.08 

 21.58 

 23.70 

 28.42 

 18.24 

 27.09 



The results of the experiments were in favor of sowlug winter wheat at the 

 rate of 3 pk. per acre and of the period from August 10 to September 10 as 

 the best time for sowing. The highest yields of spring wheats were obtained 

 from varieties of durum wheat, of which Pelissier was the best producer. Mar- 

 quis was the leading variety of the common spring wheats. With reference to 

 the time of sowing, the best results were obtained from sowing all spring wheat, 

 oats, and barley as early in the spring as soil and climatic conditions permitted. 

 Sowing flax between April 15 and May 1 is considered as being probably most 

 satisfactory. The quantity of seed per acre recommended for spring wheat 

 and small-kernelod, early varieties of oats, such as Sixty-Day, is 4 pk. ; for 

 hulled varieties of barley 5 pk. ; naked varieties of barley 4 pk. ; and flax 20 

 to 25 lbs. Sixty-Day oats averaged about 16 bu. per acre more than later 

 maturing varieties. 



Emmer and spelt did not give so good yields as barley and oats, and proso 

 millet did not prove promising. Early varieties of brown kaoliang and broom 

 corn did not mature seed. 



A pasture survey in southeastern Ohio, H. W. Hawthorne and C. W. Mont- 

 QOMEBY {Mo. Bui. Ohio Sta., 1 {1916), No. 9, pp. 282-2SS, figs. 2).— This article 

 deals with a survey of the pasture conditions in eastern and southeastern Ohio, 

 made in 1913 in cooperation with the Oflice of Farm Management of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. Information was gathered through correspondence 

 and conferences with a number of farmers. 



The pastures were designated as rotation pastures and permanent pastures. 

 The prevalent rotation was corn, oats, and wheat, with the wheat sown to red 

 clover and timothy, and maintained as pa.sture from one to nine years, during 

 which fertility was kept up chiefly through the use of commercial fertilizers on 

 the preceding crop. Most of the permanent pastures were not seeded for that 

 special purpose, although in some cases mixtures of timothy, orchard grass, 

 blue grass, and clovers were used. Fertility was maintained in a few instances 

 by top-dressing with commercial fertilizers or manure. One farm reported the 

 clipping of the stubble each year after harvesting, which resulted in thickening 

 the sod and increasing the carrying capacity of the fields. 



