| Show 1 T interesting statistics announced dy b ht I 1 i j r dwarf corn hai proved profitable farm crop Peru peruvian ylan alfalfa Vilu valuable able i in h warm climates 4 dufae ses I 1 offa ta toe p 1 f prepa prepared e by the united states department part ment of agriculture juring during the your year ending juno june 30 1913 an are area a amounting to acres was C covered by soil eoll surveys by the department of agriculture of this ihla amount acres were eur burt keyed and mapped in detail parts of thirty one states were included in tills this work and all sections of the country wore were represented the rema remainder Inde r of the area surveyed was covered which took in a reconnaissance survey the total area of which soil surveys have been made up to fo juno 30 last Is IB uquam miles dwarf corn has proved a profitable farm crop the depa department ament of agriculture announced that the dwarf corn has been extensively extensive li distributed through federal states and commercial agencies and has proved to be a very desirable and profitable farm crop re terita lifts has awakened much interest as aa a desirable type of white durra hoth both fa terita and abd dwarf kafar are adapted to harvesting with the ordinary daiy grain header which add greatly to the value as crops tor for extensive farming arming the department has taken a prominent part in the campaign now being waged for the planting ir of pure and viable broom corn seed experiments with dwarf broom corn tend to prove that this crop Is usually sown too thickly for best beat results high value of sudan grass sudan grass has continued to demonstrate on strate its high value tor for the semiarid regions and even in the humid regions has given exceedingly eatla aa 0 oon na As tho the seed li ii on like tb 9 market n ke pot potato ato rl D 1 ie eases ase s the appearance in a destruct destructive irl i way ot of several new diseases of potatoes in large producing areas areas has caused great marm alarm and heavy loss in certain of tho the important potato producing districts of the rocky moun tain territory among these maladies heretofore unknown in this country are leaf roll known in E europe uro e tor for a a number of 0 years curly dwarf rosette setie and tile the mosaic disease the attention of tho the pathologists jn in charge ot of this line lifie of work has been devoted exclusively to a study of the causes and methods tor for controlling these troubles As a result ot of tho the investigation vesti gation a method has been worked d out by which tho the resistance ot of the follano ot of potato varieties or seedlings may be tested in the green greenhouse greenhow hou during the winter which will great greatly y facilitate the work of 0 potato breeding and will also furnish a method of determining whether seed po potatoes tatom are treo free from this disease recent investigations have proved that the dry rot of potatoes which has been destructive tive in certain regions is not caused by Fas arlum as was previously supposed but that this disease to is due to other wound parasites date ripening the work during tho the last year has proved beyond a doubt that theartic fickal ripening of dates such as aa the degeler noor may bo be carried on cheaply and efficiently merely by keeping tho the full sized though immature fruit in a moist warm condition fruit so ripened Is cleaner and more attractive than that ripened on the tree thus tho the failure of the degeler noor to ripen on the thai tree as it does in some parts of the sahara desert at first seems a great drawback to date culture in california turns turna out to be an actual advantage permitting the ripening of the fruit more uniformly and mo more re e efficiently clentry than Is possible in th the op open en at ir r where the conditions cannot be controlled ailed date propagation the rapid propagation of date oft off shoots is a matter of great import ance to the development of the date MM MI 3 X as bi W r M r ninety acres of jAl alfalfa falfa on J E longs grand view farm seven miles northeast of wagner oklahoma factory Te results extensive experiments are being made with ibis grass and arrangements have been mado made so that sufficient seed will be grown for all demands rhodes grass la Is continuing to show Us its high value for florida and gulf coast conditions american grown seed will bo be produced to meet the continued growing demands vetches detches Vet ches interest in the cultivation of vetches detches vet ches especially the hairy vetch continues to increase and there la is probably now a greater acreage grown than ever before in many parts of the united states seed la Is now being grown successfully one difficulty in 08 he production of halry hairy vetch seed aeed which ordinarily must be grown with a small grain crop has been the separation of the seeds V means of the spiral seed separator tills this can easily be accomplished and these machines are now available to american farmers there la Is rea soil oa to believe that within the near future sufficient american seed will be e raised to meet the demands and probably reduce the price of seed much ch below what Is at present asked the department has recently introduced the purple vetch which Is especially promising inasmuch as it ft yalda as much hay bay and more moke seed per acre than the common vetch cowpeas Cow peas the me cowpea investigation especially in breeding has resulted in the production of a considerable number of 01 me le promising new varieties w some soma of which especially from the e view new point of seed production bra are apparently superior to any ot of tho the aldard andard tan dard varieties alfalfa the e breedin breeding of improved varieties varl etlea of 1 alfalfa especially ally hardy and wroligh augh enduring strains has devel 41 d fiade new possibilities 4 through the i 16 of 0 forms of yellow flowered tl ata that produce now new tafil lain from rom true lateral teral roots cartha thalita or of the to borms torms that possess this are good and it li 13 k forage types attl with hoped T that by hybridizing hybrid izing them sell latta ala acted plants of common alwill an extremely fr emely vigorous strain result tl it AS 8 a rs result of tho the recent introduce oil of italia It alra new llew roots or of seed of oc peruvian itil I 1 the chances of establishing to ing y ln in the southwest are bela favorable rable 1 has h 68 bo thoroughly demonstrate 54 il 1 balu yalu ue as a quick growing strain ku toti taa climates that little difficulty in getting it thoroughly industry experiments now under way indicate that it if is ia possible to root up shoots much more rapidly under greenhouse conditions where they can be given bottom heat than by the old world method of procedure it Is believed that by this method much smaller up shoots can be rooted it has also been found that when grown in the cool moist climate of the pacific coast in immediate proximity to the ocean certain varieties of the date palm fruit scarcely at all but produce instead very great numbers of offshoots off shoots and continue to produce them through a much longer period of years than in typical date growing districts new hybrid substitute for the lime A new hybrid a substitute for the lime fruited tor for the first time during the year this la is tho the obtained by crossing the west indian 1 lime with the kumquat it has proved to be not only a very precocious but also exceedingly fruitful and hardy it bears a very ivery acid fruit much like the west indian lime in slie and flavor the tree however Is much hardier than the lime having withstood the past three winters in extreme northern florida where the lime can not be grown tobacco investigations it has been found that a rotation in which special fertilizers are aappo applied la Is of great importance in maintaining the character and burning qualities of the product investigations are made during the year in the connecticut valley new york pennsylvania ohio kentucky tenn tennessee asee maryland virginia and the carolinas Caroll nas in the last four states tho the most important problem la Is the restoration of the much depleted supply of vegetable ni matter atter in tobacco solla soils through the use of cover crops which do not increase the nitrogen supply |
