Orange Judd Farmer, Chicago, Ill.
Orchard and Garden, Little Silver, N. J.
Our Country Home, New York, N. Y.
Pacific Rural Press, San Francisco, Cal.
Practical Farmer, Philadelphia, Pa.
Prairie Farmer, Chicago, Ill.

Rural Critic, Garrettsville, Otsego Co., N. Y.

Rural New Yorker, New York, N. Y.

Science, New York, N. Y.

Southern Cultivator and Dixie Farmer, Atlanta, Ga.

Sugar Beet, Philadelphia, Pa.

Weekly Globe and Canada Farmer, Toronto, Canada.

Western Breeder, St. Joseph, Mo.

Western Garden and Poultry Journal, Des Moines, Ia.

Western Resources, Lincoln, Nebr.

Western Stockman and Cultivator, Omaha, Nebr.

Western Swineherd, Geneseo, Ill.
Wisconsin Farmer, Madison, Wis.

GENERAL.

Albilene Reporter, Albilene, Tex.

Baltimore Sun, Weekly, Baltimore, Md.

Boston Globe, Weekly, Boston, Mass.

Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Mich.

Engineering and Mining World, The, New York, N. Y.

Hospodar, Omaha, Nebr.

Industrial American, Lexington, Ky.

National Provisioner, New York, N. Y.
Press, The Weekly, New York, N. Y.
Press, The Weekly, Philadelphia, Pa.
Republican Leader, New Lisbon, O.

World, The Weekly, New York, N. Y.

IMPLEMENTS, SEEDS AND PLANTS RECEIVED.

Thanks are returned for the following donations to the Station:

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

The Cleveland Linseed Oil Co., 5 sacks linseed meal.

D. K. Brewer, Xenia, O., seed wheat.

Chas. W. Bush, Selden, O., seed wheat.

W. H. Denlinger, Eaton, O., seed wheat.

The Emerson Seed Co., Omaha, Neb., 4 varieties seed corn.

Steel Bros., Toronto, Ontario, seed wheat and carrot seed.

The Kentucky Experiment Station, Lexington, Ky., seed wheat.
The Missouri Experiment Station, Columbia, Mo., seed wheat.

HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

E. W. Cruse, Leavenworth, Kansas, 3 varieties strawberry plants.
H. S. Crow, Little York, O., 1 variety strawberry plants.

Samuel Dagwell, Utica, N. Y., 1 variety gooseberry plants.
J. T. Derror, Pavonia, O., 1 variety raspberry plants.

Frank Ford, Ravenna, O., currant and blackberry plants.
Mr. Hilborn, Leamington, Ont., 1 variety currant.
Jacob Knopp, Columbiana, O., 1 variety raspberry plants.
R. D. Luther, Fredonia, N. Y., 1 variety blackberry.
L. Madison, Chili, O., 1 variety raspberry.

E. A. Ruhl, Alton, Ill., 1 variety strawberry plants.
Wm. A. Maule, Philadelphia, Pa., potatoes and seeds.
M. T. Thompson, Rio Vista, Va., 1 variety strawberry.

J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, Ill., seeds.

U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., seeds and scions.
Milliken Bros., Traverse City, Mich., Acme Potato Planter.

A. W. Livingston's Sons, Columbus, O., seeds.

George S. Josselyn, Fredonia, N. Y., 1 variety gooseberry plants.

The Perfection Sprayer Co., Waterloo, Ind., hand spraying machine.

The Acme potato planter is a small machine, designed to be used in a similar manner to the common hand corn planters. It was received too late to give it a thorough test, but from its construction we would expect it to be useful in planting small lots of potatoes.

The spraying machine is a syringe, designed for spraying single plants, such as rose bushes, etc.

The seeds and plants will be reported upon in future bulletins.

In conclusion, I have the pleasure of reporting another year of earnest, harmonious effort on the part of those directly engaged in the Station's work, and of cordial and united effort on the part of the Board of Control.

CHAS. E. THORNE,

Director.

REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURIST.

The work of this department has been conducted along the same general lines as indicated in former reports; some features of the work being curtailed, while others have been extended by additional work to bring out special points of interest heretofore undeveloped.

Experiments with field crops continue to be the leading work of the department. During the year the following work has been carefully carried on:

Wheat. (1.) A comparative test with sixty-five varieties, among which were six previously untried upon the Station grounds.

(2.) A comparative test of fourteen of these varieties upon first and second bottom land, and upon land on which a rotation had been followed, compared with yields from land upon which wheat had been grown continuously for ten seasons.

(3.) Seeding at different rates per acre, duplicating each plot, then reduplicating the first list with another variety.

(4.) Methods of seeding, such as drilling the land both ways, putting on one-half of the seed at each drilling; seeding the land with two varieties of wheat thoroughly mixed; deep and shallow planting; rolling before and after seeding; shoe drilling and hoe drilling conpared; broadcasting compared with drilling; mulching compared with unprotected wheat land.

(5.) Practical tests for destroying smut germs on seed wheat; (a) by treating with copper sulphate solution; (b) by treating with hot water. (6.) Experiments with commercial and other manures, both on Station and other grounds.

Oats. Experiments with oats for 1891 were conducted on exactly the same lines as are given in previous reports, including variety tests; thick and thin seeding, and tests with commercial and other manures.

The almost total failure of the oats in 1890 left us such an inferior grade of seed from our small plots that the growth of this year from the seed of last was very irregular, and as a consequence the study of synonyms was in a measure out of the question, though some progress has been made.

The results of experiments with oats for 1890 and 1891 will be ready for publication at an early date.

Corn. (1.) (a) About twenty-six varieties of dent corn were planted for a comparative test in yields of grain per acre. (b) Seven varieties of ensilage corn for a comparative test of fodder yields per acre. (c) Four of the best producing varieties were sent into twelve different counties of the state to responsible farmers, for a comparative test upon different soils.

(2.) Experiments in methods of planting and culture were conducted as follows: (a) Contrasting deep and shallow culture. (b) Distribution of seed, including hill and drill planting. (c) Testing vitality of seed by planting continuously seed from the same parts of the ear. (d) Experiments with commercial and other manures were conducted both upon the Station and other grounds, including in all thirty-eight tenthacre plots.

In addition to the above series of plots in wheat, oats and corn a block consisting of thirty-five one-twentieth acre plots has been devoted to a system of rotation, in the order of corn, oats and wheat, followed by two years in grass.

Fourteen plots were devoted to German millet, and to testing the utility of oil-meal as a fertilizer; the results were compared with yields from the use of nitrate of soda.

Field beets. Nearly four acres of land were devoted to mangels and sugar beets, including the following:

(a.) Comparative test of varieties.

(b.) Continuation of test on soil exhaustion.

(c.) The effect of transplanting on mangels with and without topping. (d.) Growing sugar beets isolated and dense for the purpose of comparing quality.

(e). During the year the test of 1890 was repeated to show the actual cost of producing an acre each of mangels and ensilage corn.

In all the variety tests the aim is to reduce the number each year by discarding worthless varieties and giving more attention to the more promising ones, and using them as standards to compare with the new varieties that are constantly appearing and demanding attention.

Dairy. The repairing done to the dairy barn in 1890 enabled us to enlarge upon the feeding experiment for 1891, which was conducted upon substantially the same basis as the feeding trial of 1890, namely: a comparison of ensilage and mangels in the production of milk.

During the entire year the milk from each of thirty cows has been carefully weighed and a record kept; an analysis of each cow's milk has been made some three or four times by Babcock's method, while the milk

of each cow in the feeding experiment has been tested each week during the experiment.

It is but simple justice to say here that my department has been disturbed upon every side by the city improvements, which have made inroads in almost every field experiment. The intercepting sewers have destroyed entirely a part of the wheat, oats and corn work. The grading of Neil avenue through the north field destroyed one plot of oats in the fertilizer tests and reduced the size of the millet plots. Truant boys burned a part of a plot of corn, and some bicycle riders threw a locked gate off its hinges and let the whole herd of cows into a field of corn.

The intercepting sewer work has caused extra expense to the department, because we were compelled either to keep our cattle in the barn yard about one-half the time during the summer or else have a herdsman with them. These annoyances have not made any of our reported work any the less accurate, but they have in every case caused some work to be thrown out because of its being unreliable. The constant danger from trespassers has required no little patience and considerable extra work both to myself and farm hands during the six or seven months of open weather. Aside from this the work in my department has moved on harmoniously and satisfactorily.

J. FREMONT HICKMAN,

Agriculturist.