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Depaetment Bulletin No. 976. — Cultural Experiments With Grain 



Sorghums in the Texas Panhandle : I'age. 



History of the experiments 1 



Description of the Amarillo Cereal Field Station 2 



Location 2 



Physical factors 4 



Experimental methods 11 



Plat experiments 11 



Crop rotation 11 



Method of seeding 11 



Methods of obtaining data 11 



Environing conditions 12 



Date-of-seeding experiments 13 



Dwarf milo 14 



Feterita 17 



Dawn kafir 18 



Manchu kaoliang 20 



Comparative yields in date-of-seeding experiments 21 



Spacing experiments 23 



Dwarf milo 23 



Dawn kafir 30 



Environmental experiments 36 



Agronomic data 38 



Chemical composition 39 



Summary 41 



Publications on the grain sorghums 43 



Department Bulletin No. 977. — Marketing Hay at Country Points : 



Effect of present methods of preparation 2 



Importance of time of cutting 2 



Improper curing 3 



Faulty methods of baling J 5 



Production of undesirable mixtures 8 



Marketing hay at country points 9 



Function of country shipper 9 



Competition between shippers 10 



General practices 11 



Cost of marketing hay by producer 20 



Methods of handling bay at shipping point 21 



Publications relating to hay 28 



Department Bulletin No. 978. — The Weighing of Market Hay : 



Weighing by the bale 1 



Weighing at warehouses 7 



Weighing on wagon scales 13 



Weighing on railroad-track scales 24 



Types of scales compared , 28 



Reliability of weighmaster 28 



Proper records . 2S 



Department Bulletin No. 979.— Marketing Hay Through Terminal 

 Markets : 



Country shippers r 2 



Dealers in terminal markets ' . 24 



Wholesalers and retailers in consuming territories 45 



Requirements of Eastern markets-. 46 



Requirements of Western markets , _ ^ 46 



Requirements of Southern markets 48 



Suggestions - ,.. 52 



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