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grown continuously for 4 years Bed Fultz, Poole, Nigger, Geneva, Mealy, 

 New Monarch, Democrat, Deitz, Egyptian, Rudy, Japanese, Early Ripe, 

 American Bronze, Valley, and Tuscan Island gave a greater average 

 yield than the nearest plat of Velvet Chaff, the variety grown as a 

 standard of comparison. Of these varieties, Mealy averages 4.32 bu. 

 and Bed Fultz 3.19 bu. more per acre than the standard variety; the 

 other varieties mentioned yielding less than 3 bu. per acre more. The 

 author reports Mealy, Bed Fultz, Nigger, Geneva, and New Monarch 

 to have given the best results in a series of tests, and recommends Vel- 

 vet Chaff for the black soils, and Poole, Mealy, Bed Fultz, Nigger, Deitz, 

 and Rudy for the higher, and especially the clay, soils. The Rudy and 

 Nigger varieties are not considered to be adapted to thin or wet lauds. 

 Varieties of wheat brought from the Northwest were not very success- 

 ful. There was no superiority of one class of wheat over another as 

 shown by the average yield. 



The experiments with different methods of culture are described in 

 detail, and directions for treating the seed to prevent smut are given. 



From these experiments the author draws the following conclusions: 



"Thro"* successive crops, grown under adverse conditions, show that the heavier 

 the Seeding, under such conditions, up to 10 pecks per acre, the better the yield. 



"From experiments made up t<» date it is recommended to sow in southern Ohio 

 during the last week of September and the first week of October, but in northern 

 Ohio from ten days ti> two weeks earlier. 



"Compacting the seed bed before drilling seems to be the better plan on the clay 

 as well as on gravelly or more open soils. 



•'A single trial of cross drilling with the same quantity of seed did not give any 

 higher yield than where it was drilled but one way. 



"One trial of cross drilling, using 3 pecks one way and .". the other, gave less 

 bushels per acre than 6 pecks drilled one way. 



"Top-dressing the wheat ground six weeks before seeding, added materially to 

 the yield, above the same kind and amount of top-dressing applied one week before 

 seeding. 



"Ground manured during the winter direct from the stable for corn and another 

 piece manured just before plowing in the spring gave higher yields of oats from the 

 earlier application of manure and lower yields of wheat following the oats. 



"Slightly higher yields of wheat have followed the disking corn ground for oats 

 than where the ground was plowed for oats, but that difference was more than 

 overcome by a higher yield of oats from the plowed ground, and the lighter work of 

 plowing again in the fall. 



"The degeneration from sowing seed not selected is remarkably slow and not 

 absolutely determined by our experiments thus far." 



The requirements to be fulfilled for producing a good malting barley, P. Bolin 

 (Landtmannen, S (1897), Xo. 4, pp. 564-569). 



Investigations on potash manuring in barley culture, T. Eemy ( Wchnschr. Bran., 

 14 (1897), Xos. 50-52, p. 610; aba. in Chem. Ztg., 22 (1S9S), Xo. 9, Bepert., p. 20).— The 

 conclusion is drawn that a liberal application of potash fertilizers on soils poor in 

 that constituent increases the yield and enables the crop to more fully utilize the 

 nitrogen present in the soil. 



Carrot culture, Lilienthal (Landw. Wehnbl. Schlcncig-Hotetein, 48 (1898), Xo. S, 

 p. 141). — Directions for the culture of carrots with reference to soil, rotation, manur- 

 ing, cultivation, harvesting, and their uses for feeding. 



