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Department of the Interior, Second Report of the United States 
Entomological Commission on the Rocky Mountain Locust, 1878 and 
1879, from Hon J. W. Wadsworth, M. C. 
May 15. The Insects of the Clover Plant. A new principle in pro- 
tection from insect attacks, from J. A. Lintner, Albany, N. Y. 
May 18. Eleven volumes of Michigan Pomological Society Reports, 
forming a complete set, from Chas. W. Garfield, Grand Rapids, Mich, 
May 25. Annual Reports of the North Carolina Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station for 1879, 1880 and 1881, also miscellaneous pam- 
phlets, from Dr. Chas. W. Dabney, Jr., Raleigh, 8. C. 
June 8. Census of the State of New York, 1875, from Samuel G. 
Hart, Geneva, N. Y. 
June 29. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 
for the year 1881, Part 2, from Robert Manning, Salem, Mass. 
July 3. Experiments and Investigations Conducted at the Pennsyl- 
vania State College, 1881-2, from Prof. W. H. Jordan, State College, 
Penn. 
December 7. Annual Report of the Public Gardens and Plantations 
of Jamaica, in 1881, from D. Morris, director. 
- Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution for 1880, from Prof. Spencer F. Baird, secretary. 
December 30, Landreth’s Prize Essays on Onion Culture, from D. 
_ Landreth & Sons. | 
Other gifts have been received : 
March 29. One sample corn-stalk sugar, made at the department of 
agriculture in 1879, and three samples of sorghum sugar, made at the 
department of agriculture in 1879, 1880 and 1881, from Prof. Peter 
Collier, Washington, D. C. 
April 12. Three samples of sorghum sugar and one of sorghum 
- syrup, made at the Wisconsin Agricultural College, 1881, from Robert 
J. Swan, Geneva, N. Y. 
April 18. One ton soluble Pacific guano, from H. D. Woodruff, 
agent, Auburn, N. Y. 
May 2. Garden pencils, from Daniel Batchelor, seedsman, Utica, 
oe he 
WHEAT. 
On taking possession of the Station farm March 1, a field of wheat, 
variety unknown, was found sown partly in single, partly in double or 
cross drills, together with herds grass. Two bushels of seed were said 
to have been used per acre. Winter killing rendered the field of un- 
even plant, and we were unable to find any successive areas of equal 
appearance. If experiments were to be essayed such must evidently 
be those relating to spring treatment. Recorded experience, as gleaned 
from various publications, all testified that spring interference could 
only be justifiable on rapidly growing and vigorous plants; here lack 
of vigor and irregularity of the plant caused by winter-killing seemed 
to render area comparison of uncertain value. Yet, in the hope that 
something of value might be learned through noting plant changes, 
we staked out the level portion of the field into nine full plats of one- 
