34 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The growing of succulent feeds for fall and winter use. — I, Boot crops, 

 E. B. Stookey {Washington Sta., West. Wash. 8ta. Mo. Bui., 1 {1913), No. 4, 

 pp. 9-13, figs. i2).— TMs reports yields in variety tests of mangels, carrots, 

 ruta-bagLS, and turnips grown as stock feed, witli brief cultural notes. 



The growing of succulent feeds for fall and winter use. — II [Winter 

 forage and miscellaneous crops], E. B. Stookey {Washington Sta., West. 

 Wash. Sta. Mo. Bui., 1 {1914), No. 5, pp. 8-10, figs. 2).— Cultural methods are 

 given for kale, marrow cabbage, rape, cabbage, and potatoes as grown for suc- 

 culent feed for stock, and yields are re'ported for the three first-named crops. 



Summary of results [with] cereals, 1914, C. E. Saunders et al. {Canada 

 Expt. Farms Bui. 81 {1914), pp. 3i).— This gives results of variety tests and 

 describes recommended varieties of wheat, oats, emmer, spelt, barley, rye, field 

 peas, beans, flax, and buckwheat for the maritime Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, 

 Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. 



Report of assistant botanist, J. Belling {Florida Sta. Rpt. 1914, PP- 

 LXXXI-CVI, figs. 5). — This reports a continuation of work previously noted 

 (E. S. R., 31, p. 734) in regard to the inheritance of pubescence of pods and 

 plants in crosses between the Florida velvet bean and the Lyon bean to the 

 fifth generation, and between Florida and Yokohama, and Florida and China, 

 to the third generation. 



The inheritance and segregation of characters, stinging, downy, velvet, and 

 black are discussed and noted as following closely the Mendelian calculations. 

 In a study of the inheritance of partial sterility in the first generation hybrids 

 of these bean crosses, the author believes that the discovery of empty pollen 

 grains and of aborted embryo sacs shows a segregation of genetic differences, 

 for in the partially sterile progeny certain corresponding paternal and maternal 

 chromosomes have apparently not been correspondingly paired. See also a 

 previous note (E. S. K, 32, p. 725). 



Corn crosses are also briefly noted. 



Corn, J. R. Ricks and C. T. Ames {Mississippi Sta. Bui. 170 {1915), pp. 

 3-15). — This bulletin gives results of experiments with corn, consisting of 

 variety tests, cost of growing, dates of planting, fertilizers, cultural methods, 

 subsoiling, spacing, suckering, and the production of silage corn. 



In tests of 82 varieties from 1911 to 1914, inclusive, yields ranged from 21.9 

 to 59.4 bu. per acre at Agricultural College. The cost of production of corn per 

 acre was $12.50 and per bushed 26.3 cts. Commercial fertilizers do not seem 

 to have been successful. "A crop of cowpeas gives us better returns than com- 

 mercial fertilizers." Subsoiling was deemed to be of no value in increasing 

 the yield of corn. Early (March) planting showed better results than late 

 (June) planting, and flat cultivation better yields than ridge cultivation. Cul- 

 tivation continued until tasseling of the corn began showed better yields than 

 early cultivation only. Corn spaced 1 ft. in the row gave better yields than 

 when spaced 2, 3, or 4 ft. for early planting, but in late planting 2 and 3 ft. 

 spacing gave the best results. Breaking the sucker when the corn was 4 or 

 6 ft. high was found to be injurious. Ten tons of barnyard manure per acre 

 always gave an increase in the yield. 



Silage corn yielded from 6.3 to 10.9 tons per acre. " For 3 years the average 

 cost per ton of silage at this station has been $1.92. This includes everything 

 from the rent on the land up until the silage is in the silo." 



Tests of 19 varieties of corn at the Holly Springs substation show yields 

 ranging from 30.5 to 92.2 bu. per acre in 1908, 1912, 1913, and 1914. 



Methods of treatment for weevils in stored grain by the use of carbon 

 bisulphid, by R. W, Harned, are appended. 



