<)84 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Determination of sugar in beets, cornstalks, and sorghum, P. 



Collier (iVey^- York State Sta. Bpt. 1893, pp. 176-178).— The percent- 

 ages of sugar in 8 varieties of beets, iu the stalks of 3 varieties of 

 sweet corn, and in sorghum are given. The juice of the cornstalks 

 averaged 11.4 per cent of total sugar, "or nearly 92 per cent of that 

 present in the sugar cane juice." The weight of topped and stripped 

 stalks of sweet corn growing on an acre is estimated at 9,257 lbs., but 

 the quantity of juice is not reported. 



The composition of wheat grown on saline soil, Berthault 

 and Orochetelle {Compt. Bend., 120 {1895), No. 12, pp. 691-693).— 

 In Algeria it frequently occurs that hot weather early in June causes 

 vigorous wheat plants on certain kinds of soil to lose their green color, 

 the heads drying and the grain becoming shriveled and hard. The 

 crop is largely reduced. This trouble occurs on saline soil. A sami)le 

 of such soil contained 0.64 per cent of potash, 0.26 per cent of soda, 

 and 0.014 per cent of chlorin. The nodes and the middle internodes of 

 wheat plants affected as above were covered with a deposit of chlorid 

 of potash. Chlorid of potash was found to be most abundant in the 

 nodes, the dry matter of which contained 0.718 per cent of this salt, 

 while the dry matter of the entire plant contained 0.125 per cent. 



Farm notes for 1894, W. W. Cooke and F. L. Watrous {Colorado 

 Sta. Bui. 30, pp. 3-12). — Six varieties of wheat, 15 of oats, 8 of barley, 4 

 x)f buckwheat, 6 of millet, and 5 of beets were tested. Polish wheat, 

 also incorrectly known as Mammoth Spring rye, yielded under unfa- 

 vorable conditions 25 bu. of grain per acre. It is recommended as a 

 stock food, but needs first to be ground. Of the varieties of barley 

 tested the California is recommended, on account of its productiveness 

 and drought-resisting qualities. The effects of tankage and bone meal 

 were tested on potatoes, with inconclusive results. 



Yellow millo maize, white millo maize, evergreen broom corn, Japan 

 broom corn, African millet, Jerusalem corn, Egyptian corn, red Kaffir 

 corn, and white Kaftir corn were grown; yellow millo maize ripened 

 earliest and aflorded the largest yield of forage and of grain. 



Flat pea {Lathyrus sylvestris) and sachaline {Polygonum saehalinense) 

 showed no very desirable qualities. Rape yielded very heavily, the 

 smallest yield on any plat being 22 tons of forage per acre. 



Alfalfa, its characteristics, cultivation, -wrorth, uses, and adaptability to 

 Kansas (J?j>«. Ka7isas Bd. Agr. 1S95, Mar. 31, pp. 3-4S) .—This is an abridgment 

 of a previous report on alfalfa culture in the West. 



Jerusalem artichoke (Agl. Jour. Cape Colony, 8 (1895), No. 5, pp. 109, 110). — 

 Notes on the culture, yield, and value. 



Sprouting beet seed before sowing {Landw. Centhl. Posen, S3 {1895), No. IS, 

 p. 74). 



Caiiaigre, A. E. Blount {New Mexico Sta. Bui. 14, pp. S7-44). — This is a general 

 discussion of the subject, the tojiics treated being description of the plant, habits 

 of growth, yield, relative value as a tannin plant, and methods of cultivation. On 

 irrigated land on the station farm the yitld was estimated at 4 to 10 tons of green 

 oafiaigre per acre, Cauaigre seed germinated satisfactorily. 



