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In this respect it ditt'ers from the results in the other trial." This was 

 thought to be due to the fact that watering when the grain was being 

 formed lowered the temperature of the air and soil, checked the vege- 

 tative processes, and promoted seed formation. 



" The influence of early rs. usual watering on oats is different from its influence on 

 wheat. The early watering each succeeding year decreased both the grain and the 

 straw, except in 1892, when the straw was greater for the early watering. The 

 philosophy of this result is not clear. 



"The potato crop sutl'ered very materially fi'om early watering. This crop is not 

 usually planted as early as wheat is sown, and the presumption is that the influence 

 of watering before the necessities of the plant demanded water, through a I'eduction 

 of the temperature of the soil and the air around the leaf became partially equiva- 

 lent to turning the season back, so far as the question of tcmjierature is concerned. 

 Experiments have shown that excess of water has an injurious effect on the plant." 



Methods of irrigating. — Under this head is reported the influence on 

 the yield of oats in 1891 and of hay in 1892, and 1893, on plats 2 by G 

 rods, of irrigating by (1) flooding from one side, (2) laterals running from 

 one side, (3) flooding from the end, (4:) flooding by surrounding the plat 

 by a bank and simply inundating it, and (5) by bed work, i. e., by round- 

 ing up the plat to the center and running through it a ditch so adjusted 

 as to depth or width that the water will overflow throughout its entire 

 length. 



" Plats 2 by 6 rods are too small to make a critical experiment on a question of the 

 kind. 



"The experiment with oats covered but 1 year, 1891, and must be regarded as 

 inconclusive. However, it favors the system of flooding and of bed work. The crops 

 of 1892 and 1893 are iiot in agreement as to the advantages to be derived from an 

 equal distribution of water over the plat." 



Experimental farming iii Utah, J. W. Saxborx (Irrigation Age, 1894, June). 



Simple eartheru dams for irrigation reservoirs, S.Fortier {Irrigation Age, 1894, 

 June). 



STATISTICS. 



iReport of director and of treasurer of Arkansas Station {Arkansas Sta. Rpt. 

 1893, pp. 1, 2, VI). — Brief remarks on the work of the year, the condition of the 

 station, a list of the bulletins published during the year, and a fiuaucial report for 

 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. 



Report of director and of treasurer of New York State Station {New York 

 Slate Sta. Rpt. 189.2, pp. 5-234).— Thin includes a list of the bulletins published 

 during the year, an article on what the station is doing for the farmer, a brief review 

 of the work of the different departments during the year, a list of acknowledgments, 

 articles on the investigations of dairy breeds, changes taking place in the silo, 

 analyses of fruit trees and commercial fertilizers, noticed under the appropriate 

 headings, and a financial report. 



List of publications of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1889-'93 

 {pp. 42). 



Report of the statistician ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of Statistics, Bpt. 1L5, n. ser., 

 Mag, 1894, pp. 220-294). — The subjects discussed are temperature and rainfall; condi- 

 tion of winter grain; changes in crop area; the world's supply and consumption of cot- 

 ton ; fruit crop prospects in the United States, May 1, 1894: agricultural production 

 of Mexico for 1889 and 1892 ; agricultural statistics of Uruguay ; .Austrian cereal crops 

 for 1893; Japanese cereal crops fur 1893; European croprei)ort; notes from United 

 States consular officers; and transportation rates. 



