FIELD CROPS. 



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"lu the final summing up we find the following: The striped cane has <a larger 

 stalk, gives a slightly larger tonnage, with slightly less solids-not-sugar and fiber. 

 The purple cane is conspicuous for its increased powers of germination and multi- 

 pHcation, and to the latter fact may probably be ascribed the generally smaller 

 stalk. In Brix and sucrose there is a wonderfully close agreement, with but a 

 sliglit difterence in glucose. In fact, beyond the reproductive power of purple and 

 the larger size of stalk of the striped, the 2 canes may be said to be almost iden- 

 tical. Higher fiber and solids-not-sugar attach to the purple and m.'iy to some extent 

 modify its manipulation in the mill and vacuum pan. Otherwise the 2 canes are 

 similar. 



" In the above table the germinatiye or reproductive power of the purple exceeded 

 that of the striped by 16 per cent. ... At harvest 6 per cent more purple stalks 

 existed than striped." 



Tobacco, J. Gr. Lee and W. 0. Stubbs {Louisiana Sta. Bui. 25, 2d 

 ser., pp. 814-832). — Experiineuts with varieties and with fertilizers for 

 tobacco. The details of cultivation and of curing are also given. At 

 Calhoun, La., on loose gray sandy soil, with a red sandy clay sub.soil 

 which had been cleared of old field pines 2 years before, 12 varieties of 

 bright tobacco were tested, both with and without fertilizers. The fer- 

 tilizers used consisted of a mixture of nitrate of soda, sulphate of 

 ammonia, dried blood, cotton-seed meal, acid phosphate, and sulphate 

 of potash, applied at the rate of 400 lbs. per acre. The following table 

 gives the yield per acre of the different varieties grown on the above 

 soil with and without fertilizers, and the percentage of loss in weight 

 during curing : 



Yidd and shrinlcage in curing of varieties of fohacco. 



No. of 

 plat. 



Variety. 



Fertilized. 



Cured to- 

 bacco per 

 acre. 



Loss in 

 curing. 



Unfertilized. 



Cured to- 

 bacco per 

 acre. 



Loss la 

 curiuff. 



TJan.slnnd Improved 



CoiKiueioi' 



Long-leaf Gooch ... 



Hester 



White Barley 



Premium 



Flanagan 



Sweet (3riuoeo 



Famous 



Clim;ix 



Yellow Orinoco 



Hyco 



Pounds. 

 GOO 

 690 

 690 

 540 

 750 

 600 

 750 

 615 

 600 

 910 

 690 

 570 



Per cent. 

 85.29 

 84.45 

 84.13 

 87.75 

 86,18 

 85.13 

 81.48 

 83.85 

 86.84 

 80.13 

 83.45 

 84. 16 



Poun cU. 

 •^\0 

 360 

 510 

 510 

 390 

 GtIO 

 270 

 450 

 480 

 510 

 600 

 420 



Per cent. 

 78. 78 

 87.36 

 82. 10 

 85. 83 

 88.65 

 77.01 

 89. 20 

 83.87 

 83.67 

 83.65 

 82.90 

 84.61 



The table shows that with the complete fertilizer the largest yield 

 was made by Climax, followed by White Burley, Coiiquerer, Long-leaf 

 Gooch, and Yellow Orinoco; without fertilizers, Yellow Orinoco and 

 Premium were most productive. 



Eleven varieties of cigar tobacco were grown on red sandy soil some- 

 what tenacious, and fertilized with 401) lbs. of the complete fertilizer 

 above mentioned. The following table gives the yields per acre in 

 cured tobacco and the percentage of loss of weight in curing : 



