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Itecent Agricultural Incenlwiis. 
0)1 the drill, howc\ er, the effect of the iron salt was very much less 
apparent. 
The second experiment was made in a field on a farm which had 
been " wholly run out by smut in the previous year." The seed 
Avas sown in drills 10 feet long and 1 foot apart. Every alternate 
row was left undressed for the sake of comparison, and the fungicides 
were applied to series of five alternate rows. The results are re- 
corded in the table on the preceding page. 
Although the author does not consider the results of these experi- 
ments as at all satisfactory, there are, nevertheless, one or two 
conclusions which may be drawn from them : — 
(a) The patent " Germinator "' which has been recommended in 
the United States as a preserver of seeds of all kinds, and is said 
to act efl'ectually on "the globular- formed dust which participates 
in the formation of blight, of heat, of ergot of rye," etc., appears to 
have but little effect on the smut of onions. The application of 
sulphate of copper is, for the reason previously stated, equally 
inelticacious. 
(b) Applications of sulphate of iron in the drill, either with or 
without slaked lime, and of flowers of sulphur and air-slaked lime, 
and lastly of sulphide of sodium, appear to be all possessed of the 
property of destroying the smut, and thus of protecting the young 
onion plant during its early stages of growth. 
J. W. Leather. 
RECENT AGRICULTURAL INVENTIONS. 
T/ie subjects of Applications for Patents from fiine i8, 1S91, to 
Sept. 12, 1891. 
N.B. — Where the Invention is a communication from abroad, llic name of 
the Inventor is shown in italics, between parentheses, after the name of the 
applicant. ' 
Agriculttiral Machinery and Implements, &c. 
Application. °^ Applicant. 
9G74 r.uRGEss, \y. J. . 
9703 FisCHETl, J. E. A. 
98II Cooke, W. . 
9870 Darby & Stevex.son . 
9898 Kiec;er, C. . 
9978 Yates & Baseokd 
1032G Sarcjeant, T. U. . 
11111 UOUXSIJY & iNKOCEKT 
Title of InTcntioQ. 
ricking up potatoes from the soil. 
Manure-distributing machine. 
Itidgingand earthing ploughs. 
Implements for cultivating laud. 
Turnip-cutting machines. 
Plough beams. 
Seed-drills. 
