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baking and other tests indicate to the author that strains of wheat of good 

 quality can be isolated and successfully grown under Aroostook conditions. 



[The necessity for increased wheat production in Victoria] (Jour. Dcpf. 

 Affi: rictoria, IS (1920), No. 4, pp. 193-253, pi. 1, fiys. 2/).— This iuclud(-s the 

 following articles on wheat culture in Victoria: Increasing Primary I'roduc- 

 tion, by D. S. Oman; 1920 Wheat Campaign, Wheat and Its Cultivation, and 

 Increased Wheat Production, by A. E. V. Richardson ; Post-war Reconstruc- 

 tion — How the Farmer May Help, and Crop Compititions in the Wimmera — 

 Rupanyup District, by H. A. Mullett; Flag Smut, by C. C. Brittlebank ; and 

 Results of Field Tests !n the Wheat Belt, by A. E. V. Richardson and H. A. 

 Mullett. 



The bread value of wheat, T. Sandeeson (North Dakota Sta. Bui. 137 

 (1920), pp. 3-Jf5). — The data in this bulletin are presented to show "that the 

 application of the Federal standards for wheat does not reflect the true value 

 of the different subclasses or grades into which it divides wheat." The author 

 suggests a system for determining the value of wheat based on the milling and 

 baking factors of (iiuility, and gives in tabular form the results of numerous 

 milling and baking tests by grades and subclasses for samples from the crops 

 1916 to 1919, inclusive. Previous work along the same line has been noted 

 (E. S. R., 39, p. 871 ; 40, p. 145). 



Equitable wheat grading is discussed in a brief foreword by E. F. Ladd. 



A modified Boerner sampler, E. G. Boekneb and E. H. Ropes (U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. Bid. 857 (1920), pp. 8, figs. 5). — This describes modifications of a device for 

 sampling grain, seeds, and other material, previously noted (E. S. R., 33, p. 

 836). • 



Report on the proposed electrolytic treatment of seeds (Wolfryn proc- 

 ess) before sowing, E. J. Russell (Jour. Min. Agr. [London], 26 (1920), No. 

 10, pp. 971-981). — Treatment of barley, oats, and wheat by a process consisting 

 of soaking the seed in a solution of from 2.5 to 5 per cent sodium chlorid or 

 5 per cent calcium chlorid, submitting while still in solution to an electric 

 current of 8 watts per gallon of solution, and drying at 110° F., failed to 

 produce consistent increases in yields under the controlled conditions of the 

 Rothamsted Experiment Station. Because of the uncertainty involved the 

 process was held to be of doubtful value to the farmer. 



[Report of the Official Seed Testing Station of England and Wales] (Jour. 

 Min. Agr. [London], 26 (1919), No. 9, pp. 868-880, figs. 2).— This comprises the 

 second annual report of the station, dealing with the purity and germination 

 of 23,604 samples of seed received during the year ended July 31, 1919. 



HORTICULTURE. 



Cooperation in and coordination of investigational work in horticulture, 



L. C. CoKBETT (Proc. Amer. Soc. Hort. Set., 16 (1919), pp. U5-148).—A plea for 

 more thorough cooperation between the States and between the States and 

 Federal investigators in the planning and execution of horticultural problems 

 of national impoitance. 



Methods of approach to horticultural problems, H. D. Hookek, jr. (Proc. 

 Amer. Soc. Hort. ScL, 16 (1919), pp. l.'iO-lJfo). — This is a contribution from the 

 University of Missouri. 



The author calls attention to the diversity of opinions held by our leading 

 horticulturists concerning many fundamental questions of orchard management. 

 This condition, it is believed, is largely due to a lack of knowledge of the 

 physiological action of various treatments on the organism itself. Hence the 

 importance of collecting data concerning the fundamental physiological condition 



