FIELD CROPS. Sr). r ) 



of spring oats compared, Silver Mine and Texas Rust-proof led in yield with 

 39 and 35 bu., respectively, while the common oat generally grown in the State 

 yielded only 1 1 bu. 



The •'» leading varieties of corn tested were Boone County White, Virginia 

 Golden Dent, Hickory King, Cocke Prolific, Blounl Prolific, and Learning. 

 Boone County White ranked first in yield of grain per acre with 53.78 bu., 

 being followed by Virginia Golden Dent with 52.84 bu. Learning, which ranked 



last iii yield, ranked first in earliness and was tl ly variety requiring a 



shorter period of growth than Boone County White. Blounl Prolific gave the 

 Bmallesl percentage of barren stalks and Learning the largest: A yield of 23 

 ions per acre was secured from St. Andrew ruta baga. 



Experiments at Ploty in 1904, P. Tboi betzkotc {Separate from Ghodichnuit 

 Otchei Ploty, Selsk. Khoz. Opuitn. Stantzii, tO {1905), pp. SI, dgm. I). On 

 account of an unfavorable season the yield of sanfoin did nol exceed 2,580 kg. 

 of hay, and the yield of beets varied from only 10,500 to 15,000 kg. per hectare. 



Plowing 26.5 cm. drop decreased the yield of small grains by l I..", per cenl 

 and of .urn by ll.<'» per cenl as compared with plowing 8.8 cm. deep. The 

 yields of sugar boots and potatoes, however, were better on deep than shallow 

 plowing. Fall plowing for spring wheal gave an increase in yield of 450 kg. 

 per hectare oyer spring plowing. It was found thai even in a dry year barn- 

 yard manure was capable of increasing the yield of winter wheal by VIA per 

 (•cut. sugar beets by 62 per cent, and spring wheal by 1 per cent. As tBe 

 result of following perennial leguminous forage crops in the rotation the 

 yield of winter wheat was apparently increased 33.3 per cenl : that of sugar 

 hoots. 27 per cent ; and of spring wheat. 6 per cent. 



Reports from the director of agriculture on the government farms at 

 Nairobi and Naivasha in the East Africa Protectorate for the year 1904, 

 and on the prospects of settlers {London: Parliament, 1905, \>\>. \9, pis. 12). 

 Detailed descriptions are given of the equipment and work of the experimental 

 eebra ranch and stock farm at Naivasha and the experiment farm at Nairobi. 

 Brief notes on the held and garden crops grown at Nairobi are given, meteoro- 

 logical data recorded, and the prospects of settlers in the East Africa Protecto- 

 rate are discussed. 



Annual report of the Bur d wan Experimental Farm for the year 1903-4, 

 1>. X. Mookebj] {Ann. Rpt. Burdwan Expt. Farm [India"], 1908-4, pp. 10). - 

 General notes on the work of the farm, together with meteorological data and 

 the results of experiments with various crops are presented. 



In fertilizer experiments with paddy the host yields of grain and straw for 2 

 successive years were obtained where 240 lhs. of hone meal and 60 lbs. of 

 nitrate of soda were applied per acre. The use of 8,000 lhs. of cow manure 

 or 480 lhs. of hone meal gave nearly as good results. In a test with different 

 fertilizers given in quantities supplying 50 lhs. of nitrogen per acre, the best 



yields were Obtained where hone meal or hone meal and nitrate of soda were 

 used. The host linaiioial returns were secured from the use of nitrogen alone. 



In an experiment testing tl (Feet of green manuring for paddy the largest 



yields and the highest profits were secured where jute was plowed under. In 

 cultivation tests with paddy spacing the clumps 12 in. apart in transplanting 

 irave the best results. The comparative yields of :; Bengal and :; Bombay 

 varieties of paddy are recorded, 



in experiments with potatoes, castor cake used at the rate of 1,920 lhs. per 

 acre gave apparently the largest yield, and in a green manuring experiment 

 the largest yields were obtained where dhaincha was plowed under ami cow 

 manure and castor cake were applied singly. Whole tubers seemed to give 



