The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-04-12
MARCH 20, 1894.
The Experiment Station bulletins.

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some Late Bulletins of the Norti; Carolina
Experiment Station.
The following gives short descrlp-
ton of each of the bulletins issued
lately. Each number will be sent fire
upon application from residents II
North Carolina. A small fee 10 cents
for o. and cents for each of the others
is charged those living IN other states.
No. 90 Practical Stock Feeding. pages
80. This bulletin gives composition OF
various feeding stuffs-the nutrients,
the nutritive ratios. the digastibie por-
tions tables of feeding standards, the
calculation of rations, the full values OF
fodder and the comparative value OF
feeds-a valuable bulletin for the prac-
teal feeder who desires to understand
what he is about
No. 81. Some Experiments IN " heat
Culture: pages 20; cuts 3. Describes the
effect of blowing under a crop of ripe
COW pea vines for manuring for wheat
during a succession of four years on
the same ground. The average gain
due to this 1nanuring for a series of
years per acre was
With no additional fertilizers, 96S bu.
With 300 lbs. kainit, 1916 Blu.
With 800 lbs acid phosphate, 1851 bu
With 300 lbs cotton seed meal, 1888 bu.
With Us lbs. acid phos
67.5 8 cottonseed meal 14.67 bu
315 80 lxainit
Seventeen varieties of wheat were
also tested, together with the depth OF
planting. 1t was found that three
inches was the best depth. Best varle-
ties were the following: Winter Green,
Tappahannoc, Kivet and Fulcaster.
No. 81. Culture Of Orchard and Gar
den Fruits; pages, $50; 81 cuts illustrate
the text. Practical methods for the
planting and after treatment OF orch
ards and VINEYARDS; also description of
the various insects and fungouS pests
affecting the growth of trees, vines and
small fruits. and methods to destroy
them
No. %. Feeding Experiments; As
pages. Includes experiments in fatten-
ing stock for beef with cotton seed hulls
and meal: feeding with corn silage and
sofa (soy) bean silage with cotton seed
meal; also feeding an exclusive ensll-
age ration and Il discussion of what is
| a maintenance ration.
No. 81. horticultural Tests and Re-
| suits with Garden Negeta bles, Fruits
| and Bulb Culture; pages 20. Gives tests
of cabbages, melons, garden corn, Gu
| cumbers, egg plants. lettuce, onions,
Irish potatoes, tomatoes. Strawberries,
! raspberries, blackberries, figs, peaches,
tube roses, lilies, gladioG, early hya-
cintns and roses.
No. 95. The Fertilizer Control during
/ 1898; pages 80; includes official analysis
of spring and fall samples and de
scription of ingredients in fertilizers
| and their analysis. This bulletin de-
scribes the materials OF which fertIl-
| izers are made and their composition;
| also gives the method for arriving at
| the valuation of the ingredients by the
experiment station, and how to calcu-
late the values per ton reckoned upon
| the percentages of the three va1ua bic
| ingredients. Correct freight rates are
| given to Sc interior points in North
| Carolina from Wilmington, Norfolk,
| Charleston and Richmond.
No. 90. Miscellaneous agricultural
| topics contained in the press service
| bulletins; pages 80; many practical
points of value to the agriculturist are
| given in plain language A feature OF
| the bulletin is the collection of the
| questions and replies upon important
farm subjects.
No. 81. Digestion Experiments: pages
| 4S: the results of the detailed work
| in these pages are described in plain
language in few pages in the begin
ming so that tired man can reach the
conclusion at once. For the detailed
scientific student and Investigator ia
| bles are given showing how the above
results are reached. The digestion
work covers feeding with soy tsoja)
bean hay, cat-tail millet, Johnson grass
hay. sorghum fodder and bagasse, pea
| nut vine hay, cotton seed meal. cotton
seed hulls, crimson clover hay, corn
| meal. cornand cob meal and corn silage
No 9s Some Leguminous Crops and
W. -
| the result of the year 1898, with a great
MANY varieties of clovers, COW peas,
soy (soia) beans and other legumineS
| The bulletin includes discussions of
legumines as improvcrs of the soil,
| their cultivation for forage and their
| fungous and insect enemies.
Field Peas.
The North Carolina Experiment Sta
| ton during 1893 had under competitive
test plats of COW peas and sofa beans
| ten varieties of the former and eight Of
| the latter. The experiment has been
| completed and the results are published
| in bulletin No. %, which is now being
| mailed in time to benefit farmers who
| SOW these crops N spring. Here it may
| be said that the unknown" pea has
| upon dry, medium and wet soil given
| by far the best results, out yielding all
| others both in fruit and foliage. This
! pea is also the latest to mature. FOR
| second place the contest is between the
black pea and the red ripper, both OF
! which are excellent and medium early.
| The earliest of all is the specified or
| whippoorwin pea. The unknown" in
| Georgia, sometimes called innominata,
and Woods wonderful are in all re
spects identical-they are one and the
| same variety.
| In the sofa bean class. the old yellow
variety is the most productive, both in
Ell lot.
some of the newer variety.
Concerning the popular names of
| these plants it may be said that the
so-called COW pea is not a pea, but q
bean and is more properly called Chi
nese beans. The so-called sofa bean is
! true pea. and should be called soy
pea, or Japan pea. Bnt by whatever
names we call them, these plants are
among the most valuable crop the
/ southern farmer can grow.
GERALD MCCARTHY,
Botanist n. G. Experiment Station.
Cabbage Insects.
Probably the worst pest of the cab
bage field is the so-called calico or ter
rapin bug, murgantia histrionica. This
pest Is practically proof against known
insecticides and must be hand picked.
j This is most easily accomplished by
| half filing shallow pan with water,
! and pouring upon this a 4-inch layer
of kerosene oil. Hold the pan under
| the plant and shake or jar the plant
The bugs viii readily drop into the pan
| and be instantly killed by the oil. AS
! pure kerosene will burn the leaves bad
| ly it must not be splashed on them. The
| green and striped worms which gnaw
/ the leaves of cabbage may be destroyed
/ by the kerosene emulsion, and the cab
bage lice can be held in check by the
/ w