EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 227 



FIELD CROPS. 



[Cultivation of field crops] {Proc. Intermit. Cong. Trop. Agr., 3 (lOUf), 

 pp. S2-8S, 176-187, 272-3.'{5). — These pages coataia abstracts of the following 

 papers presented at the London meeting of the International Congress of Tropi- 

 cal Agriculture: The Work of the British Cotton Growing Association, by J. A. 

 Hutton ; The Production of AVheat in the Tropics, by A. E. Humphries ; The 

 Indian Grain Trade, by P. Noel-Paton ; The Wheats of Algeria and Tunis and Their 

 Selection, by E. Baillaud ; Recent Work in Australia on the Improvement of Wheat, 

 by P. B. Guthrie ; The Production of Maize with Special Reference to South Africa, 

 by J. Burtt-Davy ; Burma Rice, by A. C. McKerral ; The Sugar Cane in India, by 

 C. A. Barber ; The Classification of Indian Sugar Canes, by C. A. Barber ; The 

 World's Demand for Cotton and India's Share in Meeting It, by A. Schmidt; 

 Problems in Connection with Cotton Cultivation in Egypt, by G. C. Dudgeon; 

 The Improvement of Cotton by Selection, by J. S. J. McCall ; The Cost of Labor 

 as Affecting the Cotton Crop (especially in the United States), by J. A. Todd; 

 Commerce and Science in Cotton Growing, by J. W. McConnel ; Cotton Cultiva- 

 tion in the German Colonies, by M. Schanz ; Problems Connected with the New 

 Egj-ptian Cotton Pest, Gelechia gossypiella, the Pink Boll-worm, by L. H. Gough ; 

 Injurious Salts and the Cotton Plant in Egj^pt, by Y. M. Mosseri ; Culture of 

 Cotton in Turkestan Russia without Irrigation, by B. de Fedtschenko ; The 

 Experimental Cultivation of Egyptian Cotton in Greece, by G. P. Cosmetato ; 

 Variations on Hereditary Factors in Egjptian Cotton, by N. Parachimonas ; 

 A Note on the Improvement of Cotton in British India, by G. A. Gammie ; The 

 Introduction of American Cotton into Sind Province, India, by G. S. Hender- 

 son ; Preliminary Notes on Chemical Manures in the Cultivation of the Cotton 

 Plant in Egjpt, by V. M. Mosseri; Jute and Its Substitutes, by R. S. Finlow; 

 The Present Position of Fiber Cultivation in the German Colonies, by W. P. 

 Bruck ; Scheme for the Establishment of a Practical Slethod for the Determina- 

 tion of the Commercial Value of Fibers, by C. de Mello Geraldes; The Fiber 

 Industry of Slauritius, by P. A. Stockdale; Results of the Acclimatization in 

 Sicily of Agave rigida sisilana, by C. Tropea ; The Paper-Slaking Value of 

 Tropical Fibers, by C. Beadle and H. P. Stevens ; The Fibers of the Netherland 

 East Indies ; The Fiber Industries of British East Africa, by A. Wigglesworth ; 

 The Production of Fine Sea-island Cotton in the West Indies, with Particular 

 Reference to the St. Vincent Industry, by W. N. Sands ; The Cotton Industry of 

 the Leeward Islands Colony, by H. A. Tempany ; Flower-bud and Boll Shedding 

 of Cotton in the Iloriu Province, Nigeria, by T. Thornton ; Cotton Cultivation in 

 Uganda, by S. Simpson ; Contribution to the Study of Cottons in the Portuguese 

 Colonies, by C. de Mello Geraldes ; Prospects of Cotton Growing in Eritrea, by 

 G. Mangauo ; The Cotton Industry in the Northern Provinces of Nigeria, by 

 P. H. Lamb ; Cultivation of Cotton in the Colony of Eritrea, by G. L. de Capi- 

 tani ; Growing of Cotton and Raising of Cattle in Southern Italian Somaliland, 

 by G. Scasselatti ; and Cotton Possibilities in Italian Somaliland and Jubaland 

 (British East Africa), by R. Onor. 



[Report of field crop experiments] (California Sta. Rpt. 1915, pp. 27-29). — 

 Brief notes are given on variety tests with wheat, oats, barley, alfalfa, corn, 

 and sorghum, cultural tests with wheat and Sudan grass, and the eradication 

 of Johnson grass. Close planting of Egyptian and Durango cotton gave larger 

 yields per acre, smaller plants, and an unimpaired fiber. 



Forage crops, J. R. Ricks (Mississippi Sta. Bui. 172 (1915), pp. 3-23, figs. 

 5). — Methods of production that have been found to give satisfactory results 

 and results of cultural tests, are given for Johnson grass, Sudan grass, Bermuda 

 grass, sorghum, alfalfa, crimson clover, co'wpeas, and soy beans, and variety 



