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[Crop experiments for 1912], E. Lopez (BoL Ofic. Sec. Agr. Cuha, 12 {1912), 

 No. 6, pp. 673-681). — This report summarizes the experimental work done 

 during the year with alfalfa, malanga (Arum), cassava, plantain, sugar cane, 

 tobacco, peanuts, sweet potatoes, and maize. 



[Crop experiments] {Rev. Indus, y Agr. Tucumdn, 3 {1913), No. 10-11, pp. 

 477-4S7). — This paper reports results of variety and cultural tests of maize, 

 rice, cowpoas, beggar weed, peanuts, and cotton. 



Cooperative fertilizer and variety tests in Malmohus County, 1912, L. 

 FORSP.KRG {Malmo. Uins EusJiuU. SiiUsk. Kvrtlsslcr., 1912, No. 4, pp. 930-1007).— 

 This report covers 83 cooperative fertilizer trials conducted at 59 different 

 farms with barley and oats, mixed cereals, sugar beets, other root crops, pota- 

 toes, and meadows. Thirteen lime experiments were also conducted as well 

 as variety tests with winter wheat, barley and oats, potatoes, and root crops. 



The results of 4 years' work indicated that 37.5 per cent of the sandy soils 

 experimented with were alkaline, 20 per cent neutral, and 42.5 per cent acid, 

 while the corresponding figures for clay soils were 52.5, 21.5, and 26 per cent. 



Report on hemp and tobacco in Italy and Holland, Kluftinger et al. {Ber. 

 Landw. Reichsamte Innern, 1913, Xo. 26, pp. VIII-\-153, pi. 1, figs. //). — This 

 publication contains accounts of the cultivation and manufacture of hemp in 

 Italy and of tobacco in Italy, Java, and Sumatra. 



Report of the work of the moorland experiment department of the agri- 

 cultural chemical experiment station at Dublany in 1912, E. Anson {Ztschr. 

 Moorkultur u. Torfuerwert., 11 {1913), No. 2, pp. 50-68, figs. ^).— In testing the 

 value of moorland for the production of hay, over 20 varieties of cultivated 

 grasses were sown singly and in various mixtures without fertilizers. The 

 yields of the pure cultures ranged from 34.68 to 84 quintals per hectare and tho 

 mixtures from 32.5 to 68.85 quintals (from 1.4 to 3 tons per acre). 



Potatoes yielded as high as 294.5 quintals per hectare with 400 kg. of 40 

 per cent potash salt and 100 loads of barnyard manure. The use of 400 kg. 

 each of 40 per cent potash salts and Thomas slag per hectare produced 355.66 

 quintals of potatoes, as against 242.3 quintals with an application of 200 kg. 

 of flowers of sulphur. 



Trials of sugar beets, summer and winter rye, hemp, A^etch, seradella, 

 lupines, summer and winter wheat, barley, flax, sunflowers, and oats are also 

 reported. 



Annual report of the Bankipur Agricultural Experimental Station, 1911- 

 12, G. Sherrard {Ami. Rpt. Bankipur Agr. Expt. Sia. [India], 1911-12, pp. 

 12). — This report gives tabulated results of manurial experiments, with cost 

 data, variety tests, and seeding and plowing experiments with rice and sugar 

 cane. The profits were greatest when cow manure and castor cake were used. 



Notes on forage in Java and India, C. V. Piper {Philippine Agr. Rev. 

 [English Ed.'\, 5 {1912), No. 8, pp. 428-431, pi. i).— This paper contains brief 

 notes on Paspalum conjugatum, Panicum numidianum, Polytrias prwmorsa, 

 Imperata exaltata, Paspalum marginatum, Andropogon annulatus, Pennisetum 

 cenchroides, and Eleusine coracana as native forage plants in these countries. 



Maguey (Cantala) and sisal in the Philippines, M. M. Saleeby {Philippine 

 Agr. Rev. [English Ed.], 6 {1913), No. 4, pp. 183-188, pis. .)).— This article dis- 

 cusses the history, introduction, methods of cultivation, and preparation of the 

 fiber of these two plants in the Philippines. 



Tests of raw phosphates, P. E. Galzew and I. W. Jakuschkin (/cf. Moskov. 

 Selsk. Khoz. Inst. [Ann. Inst. Agron. Moscou'], 19 {1913), No. 1, pp. 193-204, 

 figs. 2). — These phosphates were derived from different geological formations, 

 viz, golt. turon. and Rjasen, and showed varying values when applied to yellow 

 lupines and buckwheat 



