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BULLETIN No. 6, OCTOBER, 1889. 



Vegetables (pp. 3-13). — Potatoes. — (1) Notes on the yield of ten 

 varieties. (2) A brief account of an experiment with cotton-seed 

 meal and hull ashes, kainit, and raw phosphate, applied singly and in 

 combination, and compared with stable manure, on '' black slough " 

 bottom land. None of the fertilized plats produced more than the 

 unmanured plats, except those where cotton-seed meal and kainit, and 

 cotton-seed meal and hull ashes with raw phosphate were used. (3) 

 Deep and shallow planthig, bedding, and level culture were com- 

 pared without conclusive results. (4) Notes on the keeping qualities 

 of ten varieties. 



Notes are also given on tAvelve varieties of peas, five of radishes, ten 

 of tomatoes, six of cabbages, and seven of cantaloupes. 



Grapes (pp. 13-16). — Notes on eleven varieties. The methods of 

 cultivation and pruning and the use of paper bags to protect the 

 bunches of grapes are also described. The year\s experience is sum- 

 marized in the statements that : 



"(1) The grape grows and fruits well on ' Red Prairie ' land. 



"(2) The varieties of black grapes rot less than the white. 



"(3) Sacking the white grapes (except Niagara) and Delaware 

 (red) does not pay. 



"(4) The Concord, Ives, Norton's Virginia, Niagara, and Hart- 

 ford will pay for planting in the prairie for table use, and are bene- 

 fited by being sacked." 



Meteorological report (pp. 17-23). — Tabular summaries and ex- 

 planatory notes of observations made from August 1, 1888, to August 

 1, 1889, on the temperature of the air, precipitation, cloudiness, and 

 wind; and on the temperature of drained and undrained land as 

 recorded by soil thermometers placed at seven different depths from 

 1 to 36 inches. 



ARKANSAS. 



Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. 



DeiJ(ir1)iieitt of Arkansas Indusirial University. 

 Location, Fayetteville. Director, A. E. Menke, D. Sc. 



BULLETIN No. 11, SEPTEMBER, 1889. 



Strawberries (pp. 3-0). — This article contains notes on forty va- 

 rieties planted in 1888 on the Station grounds at Fayetteville; twenty- 

 three varieties planted at the same place in 1889 ; thirty-six varieties 

 grown at the branch Station at Pine Bluff in 1888 (?), and nineteen 

 varieties planted in 1889. 



Wheat (pp. 9-10). — Twenty-two varieties were tested. As the 

 result of two years' observations, Fultz and Michigan Amber are rec- 

 ommended as " varieties well suited to this latitude." 



Two years' experiments with fertilizers on wheat led the Station to 



