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F ertilizers.—B ulletin No. 5 of the 
Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Sta¬ 
tion is devoted to a consideration of the var¬ 
ious manures and fertilizing materials to be 
found in Mississippi. As might be expected, 
a good deal of space is given to the proper 
methods of utilizing cotton seed and its 
products, while stable manure and the var¬ 
ious marls found in the State are carefully 
discussed. Some of our best farmers will not 
find much that is new in the pamphlet, but it 
serves the purpose for which it was intended 
admirably. 
Baking Powder Bulletin. —The U. S. 
Department of Agriculture has been making 
careful investigations of the various baking 
powders sold in America. We receive an 
“Advance Slip ’ announcing the bulletin which 
is to give the results of the investigations. This 
seems to be the first work of the Department 
of Agriculture editor. Twelve powders were 
analyzed. A mere statement of the chemical- 
analyses will not help us much in determin¬ 
ing what we want. We hope the complete 
bulletin will give some simple facts about the 
chemistry of baking powders, showing why 
and how they act. Then readers can tell why 
“ available carbonic acid ” is used as an index 
of value. We are informed that there is no 
cause for any general alarm lest the Ameri¬ 
can people should suffer injury to health from 
the use of baking powders. The following 
quotation from the bulletin concerns what 
the R. N.-Y. considers the most important 
question concerning baking powders. 
“ Although the invest gations show that 
even with the best of tartrate powders the 
residue remaining in one loaf of bread pre¬ 
pared with it was of the same character as 
Seidlitz Powder and in quantity exceeded 
that of an ordinary Seidlitz Powder by over 
50 per cent.; still in this, as in most cases, the 
character of the residue in the proportion 
found can hardly be regarded as generally 
hurtful. An exception ought to be made in 
regard to the class of powders containing alum 
to which there is more serious objection; but 
even in regard to that class there seems to be 
some difference of opinion.” 
After this statement we may reasonably ex¬ 
pect that some of the baking powder people 
will advertise their goods as a sure cuie for 
biliousness. 
It appears that the American people pay, 
yearly, some $25,000,000 for baking powders. 
The cost of these to the manufacturers is some 
$8,000,000. Can we save any portion of the 
$17,000,000 profit? We might mix our own 
baking powders and save part of it perhaps. 
This would probably be about as satisfactory 
as tho home-mixing of fertilizers. By the 
way, there is no reason why the different 
makers of baking powders should not be com¬ 
pelled to print an analysis on every can just 
as fertilizer manufacturers are compelled to 
print an analysis on every bag. One good 
result of these investigations will be found in 
the fact that many people will study the 
chemistry of baking powders till they under¬ 
stand what is needed. 
Wheat Growers’ Convention.— Last 
week the R. N.-Y. referred to the proposed 
gathering of wheat growers, and spoke of 
some of the onjects desired by those who will 
attend. At the request of several friends, we 
now publish the call for this meeting. This 
call is dated at Topeka, Kan., signed by Wal¬ 
ter N. Allen, president, and J. P. Limeburner, 
secretary. 
“Whereas, That by reason of new systems 
inlusiness and the combinations against us, 
we are not, as an agricultural class, en¬ 
joying equal privileges with the manufactur¬ 
ing and commercial classes, and from the in¬ 
equality of exchange have for the past 10 
years been sorely oppressed by the low prices 
of farm products; and 
Whereas, Inconsequence of the depressed 
condition of the wheat market and the con¬ 
flicting reports of the world s supply of this 
cereal, be it therefore 
Resolved, By the charter members and 
stockholders of the Farmers’ Federation that 
a convention of wheat growers of the Mississ¬ 
ippi Valley, be and is hereby called to meet at 
St. Louis, on Wednesday, the 23d of October, 
1889, for the purpose of discussing measures 
for relief, and to form a wheat growers’ asso¬ 
ciation. 
Resolved, That the apportionment of repre- 
„ sentatives of said convention be one delegate 
from each county in the respective States and 
Territories included in the Mississippi Valley. 
And that the primaries to appoint delegates 
to said convention be held at the county 
seats on Tuesday, the first day of October, 
1889; and that we request that the proceed¬ 
ings of said primaries be immediately for¬ 
warded to this otlice, Topeka, Kansas. 
Resolved, That any farmer in the United 
States or Territories' who has grown 500 or 
more bushels of wheat the past year, and shall 
certify the fact to the president before the 
meeting of the said St. Louis convention, may 
be admitted as u delegate to said couveutiou. 
Also, all editors of the agricultural press of 
the United States shall be entitled to seats in 
said convention. 
Resolved, That we advise the farmers of 
the Northwestern States and Territories to 
hold their wheat off the market until after 
THE BUBAL WEW-Y0B&EB. 
the meeting of the St. Louis convention of 
wheat growers, unless such prices be offered 
as will justify a reasonable profit over the 
cost of production, or $1 per bushel for wheat. 
Farmers assenting to this suggestion are re¬ 
quested to send their names to this office 
with statement of bushels of wheat on hand, 
grade, etc. 
Experiment Orchard.— Bulletin No. 4 of 
the Maryland Experiment S ation. This sta¬ 
tion seems determined to make a specialty of 
testing and comparing varieties of fruits, 
vegetables and forage plants. An experiment 
orchard containing apple, peach, cherry, apri¬ 
cot, pear, plum, nectarine and quince trees was 
set out last December. The object in plant¬ 
ing this experiment orchard seems in every 
way admirable. It is proposed to test the 
standard varieties that are said to do well in 
various parts of the State, ani to compare 
stock from Northern and Southern nurseries. 
For example, trees from nurseries in New 
York and Maryland have been setside by side 
and will be closely watched during their de¬ 
velopment. Again, efforts will be made to 
compare the effects of various fertilizers on 
fruit trees. Such an experiment ought to be 
valuable and we hope it will be'faithfully 
carried out. 
Experiments with Wheat.— Bulletin No. 
7 of the Kansas Experiment Station. This 
is a valuable pamphlet. Prof. Shelton is an 
interesting writer; whatever he has to say is 
practical and business-like. Wheat is an im¬ 
portant Kansas crop—a very profitable crop 
when grown in connection with other crops 
and as a part of a regular system. It is only 
when it is cultivated as a specialty that it be¬ 
comes a friend of mortgages and bard times. 
Prof Shelton recognizes this fact. He says: 
“Wheat-raising upon a large scale and car¬ 
ried on as a specialty deserves condemnation 
in Kansas, as elsewhere; but when the crop is 
grown as a part of a system in alternation 
with corn, oats, grass, and other crops, it is 
almost certainly a profitable one to the farm¬ 
er. It is one of the few crops that give re¬ 
turns in actual cash, and this cash comes at a 
season when ordinarily there is little upon the 
farm that is salable. The indications now are, 
that Kansas farmers will “go into wheat” ex¬ 
tensively again the coming fall, and invite 
the disasters which have before followed the 
special cultivation, on a large scale, of this 
cereal. One of the most discouraging facts to 
those who are striving for real and substan¬ 
tial progress in agriculture is the almost con¬ 
stant need of attacking old fallacies in prac¬ 
tice, which it had been thought were safely 
disposed of years, perhaps generations be¬ 
fore.” 
Prof. Shelton’s experiments are carried on 
with the idea in view that wheat is to be used 
as an associate crop, not a special one. It is 
often claimed that wheat affords shelter and 
support for chinch ougs early in the season 
and that these pests pass to neighboring fields 
of oats or corn and seriously damage them. 
In reply to this, Prof. Shelton states that 
chinch bugs have never seriously damaged 
his crops in good years. Will it pay to pas¬ 
ture wheat in the fall ? If it can be done 
without injury to the crop, it is evident that 
the farmer keeping a good herd of stock could 
turn his wheat fields to a profitable use. 
Prof. Shelton’s experiments seem, on the 
whole, to indicate a loss from pasturing, but 
it is quite evident that he thinks well of the 
practice under some conditions. A number 
of experiments were conducted with a view 
to determine the best sorts of wheat for Kan¬ 
sas. Prof. Shelton says ttiat the testing of 
varieties is the most unsatisfactory work 
th at comes to the experimenter. He there¬ 
fore cautions his readers against considering 
the facts in his table of results as anything 
more than suggestively useful. To sum the 
matter up, he.says : 
“ The wheats that are really successful in 
Kausas, for a series of years, so far as my 
observation has extended, are reds, soft or 
hard, and all agree m the possession of the 
qualities, earliness, hardiness, and compact¬ 
ness of habit. The early-ripening sorts are 
liable to escape our too-fervent suns of late 
June and the ravages of the first brood of 
chinch-bugs ; while their compact habit and 
abundant stooliug furnish the dense, moist 
shade, which repels the mature “ bugs ” by 
which alone these varieties,are likely to be 
damaged.” 
After some experience with manures and 
fertilizers on wheat, Prof. S. concludes that 
tue better class of Kansas soils, when well 
farmed, during favorable seasons, require 
little in the way of artificial stimulation. 
The fertilizers he applied to his experiment 
plots did not pay a profit. Quite an interest¬ 
ing experiment with salt as a fertilizer is 
given. During recent years salt has been 
discovered in great abundance in various par.s 
of Kamas. Since these discoveries great ex¬ 
pectations have been raised regarding the in¬ 
fluence of salt on Kausas crops. So much 
has been said on the subject—mainly by those 
who most desired that Kausas salt should in¬ 
crease Kansas crops—that farmers are in 
danger of losing sight of the true value of 
salt as a manure. Last year on the college 
farm at Manhattan, the use of salt gave a 
gaiu at the rate of nearly five bushels of 
grain and 800 pounds of straw per acre. 
This year the salted plots gave no increase of 
grain and but a slight increase of straw. 
This experience serves to emphasize what ex¬ 
perimenters with salt for ages have taught. 
It is a special manure in the sense that it must 
be used on certain soils and in certain seasons 
to give best results. It is better in a dry than 
in a moist season and gives better results on a 
dry, porous soil than on a stiff clay. Msny 
farmers have advocated salt as a useful agent 
in destroying chinch bugs and other insects 
Prof. S. states that, with him, the salted por¬ 
tions of the field suffered worse from chinch 
bugs than the unsalted portion. But the salt 
did make a brighter, cleaner straw—that 
effect was undoubted. 
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