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^iasm come to its aid in its struggle to ac- 
quire a permanent home and in building 
up a museum and library that will be an 
honor Xo the community and State. 
Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant, Director of the 
New York State Experiment Station at Gen- 
eva, among other agricultural experiments, 
has been testing relatively the fertility of tip, 
butt, and central kernels of corn. It has 
hitherto been the custom of farmers to select 
for planting only the central kernels, as being 
the most perfect on the ear, and consequently 
the most likely to produce the best grain. 
The results of Dr. Sturtevant's experiments, 
however, show a very different result : as (i) 
the tip kernels were the most prolific of good 
corn ; (2) the butt kernels were more prolific 
of good corn than the central kernels; (3) 
the tip kernels bore longer ears than the 
other kernels, the butt kernels the next, and 
the central kernels the shortest ; (4) the mer- 
chantable ears from the butt seed were dis- 
tinctly heavier than those from the tip seed, 
and those from the tip distinctly heavier than 
those from the central kernels ; (5) the butt 
kernels furnished more unmerchantable corn 
than did the central kernels, and the central 
kernels more than did the tip kernels. 
The publisher of the Review has for sale, 
very low, a large, fine, new parlor organ, 
suitable also for college chapel, lecture room, 
or church. It is one of the very best styles, 
and can be had at a decided bargain. 
The address upon "Technical Training" 
referred to in the September Review was 
delivered by Dr, Thos. M. Drown, Secretary 
of the American Institute of Mining Engi- 
neers, before the Alumni Association of 
Lehigh University, June 20, 1883, It was 
published by the University, and has received 
the highest commendations from the scien- 
tific press. 
Erasmus Haworth, who has contributed 
several valuable articles to the Review within 
the past two years, has recently been chosen 
Professor of Physics in the College at Oska- 
loosa, Iowa. He is a graduate of the Uni- 
versity of Kansas, and has since taken a 
course in the Chemical Department of Johns 
Hopkins University, which, taken in connec- 
tion with his natural aptitude and love for 
scientific studies, renders his appointment 
peculiarly fitting. 
Prof, W, H. Pratt, Secretary of the Da- 
venport Academy of Sciences, writes us a 
personal letter in which he says : "I always 
find good things in the Review, both orig- 
inal and selected." 
No. XI of the "Johns Hopkins University 
Studies," of which Dr, Herbert B. Adams is 
editor, is entitled The Genesis of a New 
England State (Connecticut), and was read 
before the Historical and Political Science 
Association, April 13, 1883, by Alexander 
Johnston, A. M. 
To any person remitting to us the annual sub- 
scriptiott price of any three of the prominent lit- 
erary or scientific magazines of the United 
States, we will promptly furnish the same, and 
the Kansas City Review, besides, without 
additional cost for one year. 
The question of succesful sugar-making 
from sorghum seems to have been finally set- 
tled in Kansas. The works at Sterling and 
Hutchison are now manufacturing large 
amounts of excellent sugar, well grained and 
of a high percentage of saccharine matter, as 
well as syrup of superior quality. It is be- 
lieved that within another year enough of 
both will be made to supply the demands of 
the whole State. 
The success attend the experiment of bor- 
ing artesian wells in Denver and other local- 
ities in Colorado is quite remarkable, and 
justifies the suggestion made by the writer, 
in a lecture delivered several years ago, that 
the time would come when such wells would 
not only provide water for irrigating the des- 
ert lands of the great plains, but also possi- 
bly solve the question of draining the mines 
of the Rocky Mountain region. 
