728 EXPEEIMENT STATION RECORD. 



killed over 40 per cent. The 4 strains that winterkilled less than 40 per cent 

 were Grimm (North Dakota), Grimm (Minnesota), Turkestan (South Dakota), 

 and Mongolian. The yields reported during 1907-8 ranged from 912 to 4,098 

 lbs. per acre at the first cutting and from 32S to 1,164 lbs. at the second. 



After an oat, corn, wheat rotation followed by 3 years of alfalfa, the oat 

 yield was 75.3 bu. per acre or 7.6 bu. above the average yield after winter rye 

 and poor stands of sweet clover and red clover. The oat yield after corn was 



74.2 bu. per acre. Medicago falcata and M. ruthenica proved unpalatable, and 

 also proved inferior to common alfalfa because of low yield, prostrate habit of 

 growth, shattering seed habit, and poor recovery after cutting. 



Timothy, slender wheat grass, and brome grass averaged 2,470, 2,950, and 

 2,520 lbs. of hay per acre during 1908-9. Among oat varieties the highest hay 

 3'ield of 3,720 lbs. per acre was secured from Beseler No. 1. Among millets, 

 German millet 25092 yielded 6,920 lbs. per acre. Tangier peas, emmer, and field 

 peas yielded 2,816, 2,240, and 1,780 lbs. of hay per acre respectively, while a 

 mixture of oats and barley yielded 2,730 lbs. Among 8 durum wheats in 1909, 

 Kubanka No. 8 and Nicaragua yielded 42.5 and 37.9 bu. per acre respectively as 

 compared with 33.4 bu. from Rystiug Fife and 30.9 from No. 299 Blue Stem. 

 During 1900-1909, Durum, Fife, and Blue Stem varieties averaged 27.3, 24.4, and 



22.3 bu. per acre respectively. In 1909, Early Mountain, Banner, Mctory, 

 Golden Rain, and American Beauty oats yielded from 86.1 to 88.5 bu. per acre 

 in a test of 26 varieties. Of 11 varieties of barley, Hannchen, Swan Neck, 

 and Hanna yielded 48.7, 46.8 and 46 bu. per acre respectively. During 1907- 

 1909, wheat, oats, barley, and emmer averaged 1,871 2,321, 2,011, and 1,893 lbs. 

 of grain per acre respectively. Plats seeded with 3, 5. or 9 pks. of durum 

 wheat during 1907-1909 and common wheat during 1909 produced the highest 

 yields from the heaviest sowing except in 1907 when the lighter sowings pro- 

 duced yields almost twice as high. 



In a test of 22 varieties of potatoes Early Bird and Irish Cobbler yielded 334.5 

 and 331.2 bu. per acre respectively. Prize Winner ruta-baga. Yellow Globe 

 mangel, and ^fastodon carrot were the leading varieties, yielding 786, 644, and 

 435 bu. of roots per acre respectively. 



In continuous cropping during 1908-9, oats yielded approximately 46 and 52 

 bu. per acre respectively after fall and spring plowing, 54, 64, 64 and 68 bu per 

 acre respectively after small grains, green manure, summer fallow, and corn. 

 For wheat the corresponding yields after similar preparation were about 21, 

 26, 26, 33, 35, and 36 bu. After fall and spring plowing corn yielded approxi- 

 mately 52 and 58 bu. per acre respectively, while after small grains, manure, and 

 summer fallow the yields were approximately 49, 63, and 45 bu. per acre 

 respecti\ely. The plats cropped with small grains, green manured with legumi- 

 nous and nonleguminous crops, and fallowed in 1907 yielded in 1909 about 48, 

 52, 49, and 42 bu. respectively. 



An individual plant selection of Kubanka wdieat yielded 4A bu. per acre more 

 than its nearest competitor. 



Annual report of the Bankipore Agricultural Station for the year 1908-9, 

 F. Smith (Ann. Rpt. Bankipore Agr. Sta. [Indin], 1908-9, pp. U, pis. 2).— A 

 brief history of the station and outline of the plan of its work are followed by 

 meteorological data, and an analysis of the station soil and subsoil and of 

 silage from Bankipore. A progress report is given of experimental sowings of 

 a number of field crops and yields are in some instances reported. Flax from 

 Bengal proved longer and coarser than a standard sample of Belgian flax used 

 for comparison. 



Annual report of the Burdwan Agricultural Station for the year 1908-9, 

 F. Smith {Ann. Rpt. Burdwan Agr. Sta. [India], 1908-9, pp. 23, pis. 2).— A 



