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Winter rye was found to be the most dependable small-grain crop for the 

 vicinity of Highmoro, where winter wheat frequently winterlcilled. Five pk. of 

 seed planted during September proved to be the best seeding rate and date. 



Winter wheat was grown successfully at Eureka on plowed and harrowed land 

 by mulching with a thin layer of straw late in the fall. At Cottonwood winter 

 rye has given better results than wheat, yielding as high as 7.8 bu. per acre in 

 1914. At the Belle Fourche farm at Newell, as also at Highraore, " the Kharkov 

 and its near relative, the Turkey, have been most successful." "At Newell, as at 

 Brookings, the winter wheat has proved more profitable than the best variety 

 of spring wheat." 



Variety test potatoes, E. F. Gaskill {Massachusetts Sta. Rpt. lOl-i, pt. 1, 

 pp. 41a, Jf2a). — This gives the yields of a 3-year variety test of potatoes (1912 

 to 1914). Late-variety yields ranged from 118 to 434 bu. per acre and early- 

 variety yields from 89 to 224 bu. 



Experiments in the cultivation of rice at the government experiment sta- 

 tion, Maha Iluppallama, North-Central Province, G. Haeboed (Dcpt. Agr. 

 CcijJcrn Bui. 21 (1915), pp. 8). — Different methods of cultivation, the native 

 method of sowing broadcast, dry cultivation, and transplanting, produced, 

 respectively, 47, 33.5, and 60 bu. of rough rice per acre. Results of spacing 

 trials, in which single plants were set 2. 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 in. apart, showed 

 the 10-in. spacing to give the best monetary returns. 



HOaTICULTURE. 



[Report of horticultural investigations], R. Withycombe (Oregon Sta., 

 Rpt. East. Oreg. Sta., 1911-12, pp. 37-40). — Data are given on a limited spray- 

 ing experiment conducted to determine the relative value of the first, second, 

 and third sprays in tlie control of the codling moth. Tlie test indicates that 

 the first spray applied at the time the blossoms fall is the most effective. 



A cover crop test was started in the substation cherry orchard during the 

 fall of 1911. Of the crops tested winter rye and hairy vetch proved most 

 satisfactory. 



Data are also given on a test of 36 varieties of strawberries conducted during 

 the three seasons, 1910, 1911, and 1912. None of the varieties has proved 

 very satisfactory. Clark Seedling, although not a heavy producer, possessed 

 more quality than any of the other varieties tested. Senator Dunlap, Brandy- 

 wine, Clyde, and 16 to 1 ai'e given as satisfactory varieties for home gardens, 

 but are not recommended for commercial berries under eastern Oregon 

 conditions. 



[Horticultural investigations on the ScottsblufE reclamation project experi- 

 ment farm, Nebraska, in 1914], F. Knoee (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Plant Indus., 

 M^orJi Scottsbluff Expt. Farm, 1914, pp. 18, 19). — Notes are given on acclimati- 

 zation and variety tests of orchard and small fruits, shade trees and shrubs, 

 and vegetables. 



[Report on horticultural investigations at the Yuma experiment' farm, 

 1914], R. E. Blajr (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Plant Indus., Work Yuma Expt. 

 Farm, 1914, PP- 18-24, fig-^- 3). — In continuation of previous reports (E. S. R., 

 32, p. 232) a brief report is given of progress made in cultural and variety 

 tests of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and ornamentals during 1914. 



Very good results have been secured in transplanting seedling date palms 

 from the nursery to the orchard through careful preparation of furrows for 

 irrigation before planting, care in setting the crowns of the plants well above 

 the earth line, and frequent irrigations. The block of Smyrna-Adriatic fig 

 hybrids came through the winter of 1914-15 with much less frost damage than 



