The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23
Recent Publications of Interest TO
Farmers and Gardeners.

Station BulIetin.-The latest issue of the
Georgia experiment station is bulletin No.
81. devoted to cotton culture. 1t comprises
thirty pages and describes a comparative
test of seventeen varieties The expert
ment included tests of distance, of fertil-
izers, and the value of topping. Most of
our intelligent readers doubtless receive
the bulletin, so we will not make a COM
plete resume of the bulletin, but merely
give the chief conclusions arrived at. The
four varieties producing the largest yield
of seed cotton per acre were the Jones
Improved" (station grown seed), Hutch
inson'S Storm Prolific, Kings Improved,
Duncans Mammoth. The Kings Improved
gave the largest per cent. of lint, viz. 81
per cent. This is of least importance in
itself, for the range was from 30 to a. AS
to size of bolts, the range was from 90 to
49, that many bolls to the pound. Aver
THE average number of seeds per pound
was found to be S.9O5; per bushel, n7150.
A distance of three feet was shown to
be better than four feet.
The formula, used in this experiment
was as follows, per acre:
Acid phosphate ,.................4e S pounds
Cotton seed meal ...............26S
Muriate potash ...... ........... 36
Total 49,. .s.... ..............790
Cost, 1886
The details of this experiment are of
more or less interest to farmers. Send and
get the bulletin, but that need not in
fiuence you to plant more cotton. Be
ware of being SO persuaded.
Bulletin No. GA of the Ohio experiment
station (25c) treats of THE Smut of Oats
and Its Prevention.
The North Carolina experiment station
has just sent out bulletin No. 125. 1t deals
with that very interesting subject For
age Grasses and Hay Making" The chap
ter is divided into three sections:
% Treats of forage grasses.
90 The formation and care of grass
lands.
80 Haying tools and hay-making (SS
pages, Raleigh, N. c..
Bulletin No 80 of the Florida expert
pages, and has for its subject, The Present
Condition and Treatment of Orange
Groves 1t is a very instructive bulletin
to such as are engaged or propose to en-
following from the author, M. S. More
man. of the bulletin, which may be taken
as his prediction of what we may expect
from the groves four years hence:
The Florida Orange Groves.-When
Will Fruit be Shipped ?-Early in the '70s,
when the great orange growing period be-
900 boxes. Groves were rapidly increased
in number, both by transplanting nursery
stock and by budding directly into the
native sour trees as they stood. Behind
this work was capital and hope, which
pushed ii forward with astonishing rapi-
dity. Indeed the developments were mar
velous Under these suspicious condi-
lions nearly twenty years were required
before a crop of five million boxes was
reached. This epoch of production was
closed upon the night of Feb. Z, 1895. The
crop of the state for this season does not
exceed fifty thousand boxes. Instead of
from new material, as was the case be-
fore, the coming groves must be made
from the wreckage left by the wave of
adversely. 1t is true the people are rally
ing from the blow, and hope springs
again, backed by indomitable courage and
energy. While recuperation in some in
stances must of necessity be slow, for the
most part the growth on these well estab-
lished roots will be rapidly developed into
fruit bearing trees. There will be no
marked increase in the crop of the state
until the budding done in '95 begins bear
ing, which is not probable earlier than
'9S OF course, the trees that were not |
killed TO the ground will, in the meantime, |
add their production, and thus give some |
increase These trees, however, will not |
reach their full bearing for at least five |
years Ninety-fve per cent. of the old or
ange producing surface was destroyed. |
The remaining five per cent was so in |
iured that Instead of producing 250000 /
boxes. its proportion, only $1,000 boxes I
we're marketed. The crop of '96 may |
reach 125,OOO This will increase each /
wear SO that 100000 boxes will possibly I
he the crop of 1900.