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for this and the preceding year, Fuleawter leads with a yield of 37.08 V)u., followed by 

 Improved Fideaster, Poole, Inijjroved Poole, Niger, Kansas Mortgage Lifter, and 

 Mediterranean, yielding .3H.45, 3(>.01, 35.97, 35.21, 35. 10, and 35.05 bu. per acre, respec- 

 tively. Fulcaster, Poole, Mediterranean, and Plarvest King are considered as among 

 the most satisfactory varieties tested. The best milling wheats so far grown are 

 Fulcaster, Niger, Mediterranean, Improved Fulcaster, and Dietz Amber; while White 

 Golden Cross, Early (Jenesee CTiant, and Fnltz were the poorest. The average yield 

 of 13 bald varieties was 31.70 and of 26 bearded varieties 28.18 bu. per acre. Rice, 

 Egyptian, and JNIediterranean were the only varieties which equaled or surpassed 

 the standard weight per measured bushel. Most of the foreign varieties proved 

 unsatisfactory. 



The results in seed selection with Mediterranean and Poole wheat show an average 

 yield for the large grains of 29.4 and 27 bu. and for the small grains of 25.6 and 22.6 

 bu. per acre, respectively. The experiments in seed selection indicated further that 

 the largest and choicest grains are found in the large heads, and it is concluded that 

 they contain the largest supplies of plant food and should for this reason produce the 

 best plants. 



The results of fertilizer experiments with winter wheat after ])are fallow show 

 that the cost of the increase per bushel was 19 cts. with 250 lbs. of acid phosphate 

 per a(;re in 2 applications, 26 cts. with 10 tons of barnyard manure aijplied in 1900 

 and 5 tons in 1901, and 32 cts. with an application of 50 bu. of lime in 1900; while 

 accompanied by a crop of cowpeas plowed under, 50 bu. of lime applied in 1900 

 reduced the cost of increased yield per bushel to 1.6 cts., 250 lbs. of basic slag to 17 

 cts., and the same amount of Tennessee and South Carolina acid phosphates to 19 and 

 20 cts. Where bare fallow was followed for 2 years, the cost of the increase with 

 these phosphates was 42, 39, and 34 cts. per bushel, respectively. The phosphates 

 gave good results in all cases, but the applications of muriate of potash alone, of blood 

 and bone, and of 100 bu. of lime alone were unsatisfactory. The complete ready- 

 mixed fertilizers were unprofitable, and the complete home-mixed fertilizers were 

 not as economical as either phosphates, lime, or barnyard manure. On impoverished 

 soil a home-mixed application of 50 lbs. nitrate of soda, 100 lbs. acid phosphate, and 

 25 lbs. muriate of potash gave the best results. Cowpeas gave the best returns when 

 pastured off on the land, and the next best when made into hay. Plowing under 

 cowpeas on poor soil is considered as always profitable. 



Wheat on thin and imi^overished land suffered most from attacks of the Hessian 

 fly. From the results obtained in sowing winter wheat on different dates "it is 

 apparent that the date of seeding wheat determines, to a considerable degree, the 

 amount of injury done by the fly, and it is further evident that if wheat is sown on 

 carefully prepared land of good quality where there is an abundant supply of availa- 

 ble food that it will stool out and in a measure make up for the original shoots 

 destroyed by the fly. These shoots, however, will not be so vigorous, nor will they 

 fill so well as those first thrown up." 



Spelt is considered as of little utility for Tennessee. 



Experiments in wheat culture, L. Foster and W. H. Fairfield ( Wi/oming Sta. 

 JJnI. 4S, j)j>. 49-(;9). — This bulletin reports in tables the results of culture experi- 

 ments coiulucted at the station, and of variety tests made at Laramie and the sub- 

 stations at Lander, Sheridan, and Wheatland. The culture ex])eriments — a com- 

 parison (jf intertillage and field (ailture, begun in 1897 — have not been comi)leted, but 

 the results so far as obtained are given. A large proportion of the varieties tested gave 

 satisfactory results. Those recommended as among the best are Velvet Chaff, Scotch 

 Fife, Scotch of Scotch, Saskatchewan Fife, Nox, and Pride of America. The com- 

 parison of intertillage during the growing season and of ordinary field culture 

 seems to indicate that under existing conditions intertillage did not sufficiently 

 increase the yield Uj pay for the additional labor. Resulta of previously reported 



