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compared with Canada peas. Tlie flat pea made an uneven growth the 

 second season. The tops when cut were readily eaten by cattle. 



Small grains, L. Foster {Montana Sta. Bui. 10, pp, 27-40). — After 

 describing the methods of wheat culture in common use in Montana 

 the writer gives the details of a test of varieties of wheat. Six rows, 

 14 in. apart and 8 rods long, were sown to each variety tested, of which 

 there were 86. The results are tabulated. Analyses are also given of 

 29 varieties, showing the percentage of water, nitrogen, and crude pro- 

 tein. The Ladoga wlieat is especially mentioned. 



The yields of 50 varieties of oats and 27 of barley are tabulated. 

 The seed of both grains was treated for smut by dipping in a solution 

 of copper sulphate. There was no smut in the barley and only an 

 occasional head in the oats. 



Beginning August 9 a small plat was sown to spring wheat each 

 week until November 19. Only the latest sowings were free from win- 

 terkilling. The first plats averaged 3.3 bu., the next 5, 12.7 bu., and 

 the last 4, 38.5 bu. 



Leguminous and other plants grown -without and -with difTer- 

 ent quantities of nitrogen {Rhode Island Sta. Bpt. ls95,pp. 319-326, 

 Jigs. 10). — The trial was on 3 plats which for two seasons had received 

 like amounts of potash and phosphoric acid, 2 receiving also 150 lbs. 

 and 450 lbs. of nitrate of soda, respectively. Leguminous crops had 

 been grown, but in the present trial various nonleguminous crops were 

 grown. The results are tabulated. The plat with no nitrogen pro- 

 duced more than half as much spring rye, oats, field corn, and Golden 

 Wonder millet as the plat with the full application of nitrogen. The 

 plat with the smaller application of nitrogen produced more than 80 

 per cent of the amount yielded by the plat with the full application in 

 the case of every crop except barley. In the case of Japanese millet 

 the plat with the smaller application of nitrogen gave fully one-fourth 

 more crop than the plat with the full application. With regard to 

 leguminous plants only one, the Japanese bean called "Edamame," 

 gave greater yields upon the no-nitrogen plat and the plat with the 

 smaller application of nitrogen than upon the plat with the full appli- 

 cation. The author concludes that the larger amount of nitrogen was 

 generally not profitable. 



Experiments on permanent grass in Gloucestershire, 1896 

 {Agl. Students^ Gaz., n. ser., 8 {1896), Xo. 2, pp. 41-43). — Comments and ' 

 tabulated details are given for experiments on 32 twentieth-acre plats 

 of permanent mowing land with rape-cake meal, basic slag, nitrate of 

 soda, ammonium sulphate, guano, superphosphate, kainit, and salt, 

 singly and in various combinations. Fourteen of the plats had received 

 a dressing of 7 tons per acre of colliery dung in the previous December 

 and were partially flooded by the overflow of a stream about the middle 

 of May. 



" [On this series of plats] superphosphate alone had no effect, but kainit alone 

 was beneficial; kainit and superphosphate together more so; rape-cake meal gave 



