40 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Corn. — Tests were inade with 62 varieties grouped as common field, 

 early, extra early, and prolific. Descriptions are given for a number 

 of varieties, and for each group the 5 best yielding varieties and those 

 yielding more than 25 bu. per acre are given. Mosby Prolific, Blount 

 Prolific, Forsyth Favorite, Golden Beauty, and Murdock gave best 

 yields, ranging from 48 to 43.8 bu. per acre. Yields of 35 varieties also 

 grown the previous year are compared and the proportion of shelled 

 corn to ear corn is given. 



Cotton. — Of 34 varieties plantings were made April 10 and May 17, 

 1895. The well-known Bohemian was grown as a check. The results 

 are tabulated. At 8j- cts. per pound Peerless brought §31.26 per acre, 

 an excess of $10.12 over the check variety. 



Forage plants. — Varieties of grass, clover, sorghum, Kafir corn, mil- 

 let, cowpea, soja beau, buckwheat, and broom corn were grown on 

 twentieth-acre plats. Mesquite grass grew well, while lentil, sainfoin, 

 serradella, and yellow lupine proved failures at the station. Giant 

 beggar weed is too woody for forage. The experiment has not yet 

 been completed. 



Experiments with cotton, Jo F. Duggar (Alabama College Sta. 

 Bid. 76, pp. 23). — The experiments include variety tests, seed tests, 

 methods of cultivation, distance experiments, and experiments with 

 fertilizers. Results are tabulated and average yields of lint and of 

 varieties tested more than 10 times are given. All experiments were 

 made on plats varying from one-twenty-first to one-fifteenth of an acre 

 in different fields. 



Varieties (pp. 6-10). — Seventeen varieties were grown under like con- 

 ditions. Hutchinson ranked first with a yield of 845 lbs. of seed and 

 403 lbs. of lint per acre. Truitt, Dixon Cluster, and Peerless stood 

 next in the order named. Wellborn Pet, Dixon Cluster, and King, in 

 the order named, proved to be the earliest varieties. King afforded the 

 highest per cent (35.1) of lint. 



Seed (pp. 10-12). — Yields from seed obtained from different latitudes 

 varied slightly in favor of seed from the most northerly locality. Seeds 

 grown in 1893, 1894, and L895, were planted to test the effect of age on 

 seed. The results varied so little as to warrant no conclusion. New 

 seed usually insures a better stand. 



Cultivation (pp. 12-14). — Rolling after planting induced simultaneous 

 germination and a good stand. Barring off under favorable moisture 

 conditions did not prove deleterious. Subsoiling gave an increase of 

 46 lbs. of lint and 93 lbs. of seed per acre over the yield of land not 

 subsoiled, under conditions favorable to subsoiling. 



Distance experiments (pp. 14, 15). — All rows were .'U ft. apart and 

 the best yields were in favor of distances ranging from 12 to 18 in. 

 between the plants in the row. 



Fertilizer experiments (pp. 16-23). — Bedding on all the fertilizer gave 

 slightly better results than reserving one third and applying it in the 

 seed drill at planting lime. A mixture and a compost containing per 



