e414 BULLETrIN NU.O. NEW .SERIES. Agricultu ral iandc Mechanical Colleg'e, AUBURN, ALA . o00WQimm., ls8s. 33 :E:BJPOIR Ag utI c~ and Mechanical E e mtAgricultural College, AUBURN, ALA., OCTOBER, 1888. R O COMMITTEE F7S O OF TRUSTEES ON EXPERIMENT STATION: HoN. J. G. GILCHRIST, lION. R. F. LIGON, HON. J. 1B. MITCHII.. W. 'L. BROUN. .... ... ...................... President " ... J. S. NEWMAN................................ N. 11. LUPTON................................... tP. Director and Agriculturist Vice-Director and Chemist H. MELL..... ............................................ .......................... .............. Botanist .... Biologist ISAAC Ross ... Assistant Agriculturist in Charge of Live Stock and Dairy econd Assistant Agriculturist E. R. LLOYD, M. Sc .............. .......... ...... ...... ... .First Assistant Chemist J. TF. ANDERSON, PH. D............ Second Assistant Chemist L.. VWTTKTNSONNM. Sr'. .. . ........... ........... hirdi Assistant Chemist P. L. IUTeIIINSON ......... T. D. SAMNFORD, B. SC... .......................... .... Assistant Botanist SProf. NMell has also charge of Meteorological Observations. To boe filled. 34 First eport of the Dirctor The equipment of the Agricultural department of the station having been very much improved during the present year, its future work will be more in accordance with a proper conception of experimental investigation than has hitherto been practi,cable. Experiments with stock have not been attempted on -account of the absence of the necessary conditions of success. Barns, machinery, a silo, dairy and ice house, with stalls con.structed expressly for feeding experiments, and the necessary .help having been provided, experiments looking to the encour.agement and improvement of the stock and dairy industry of the State, will be undertaken during the approaching winter. Having no adequate storage room in the past, and being dependent upon a custom gin, all past reports of cotton experiments had to be made in seed cotton, which, though very unsatisfactory, was the best that could be done without room for storing the product of each experiment separately, and the means of ginning each separately. In future, results will be given in lint, :instead of seed cotton. Another difficulty with which this department has contended has been the frequent ishange of assistants. So great has been the demand for trained experts in experiment work, that so fast .as young men have become especially efficient, they have been =offered better positions at other stations. Three of our graduates have been thus taken from us within the last fifteen months. This is detrimental to the work of the station, since much of the details of planting and gathering experiments, as well as the peri-odical observations upon them, must, of necessity, be entrusted to assistants. The result has been that much valuable time has been expended in training men for the benefit of other stations. EXPERIMENTS WITH WHEAT. The question as to the proper depth to plant small grains, has received much attention in the columns of the Agricultural press ,of the country. In order to test this accurately, plats of equal area were planted depths ranging from half inch to six inches, 25th November, i887. The soil was evenly prepared, and rows merely marked a line one foot apart. Two grains of carefully selected -at vi.th 35 4 wheat were then dropped every six inches in the row, and carefully pressed in with a large dibble, which had previously been accurately marked in half-inch divisions. The number of grainswhich vegetated were carefully counted upon each plat, and the percentage of the whole number planted calculated with results as shown in the tabulated statement. In order to ascertain the extent to which the stand was supplemented by tillering, on the lplats on which only a small per cent. of the seed vegetated, the number of heads to each stool was counted. The wheat from, each plat was rubbed out by hand, and weighed, with results. shown in the table. The wheat rusted on both blades and stalk,. upon all of the plats; all plats were cultivated. RESULTS. I~Ic; Lisso to -N x. U h 20 19.5y wer 181 24.4 .................. Purple stra......... Purple straw...............................i Purple strawv................... inch I4 i . .... 2 2I Puiple 77 77 69 70 65 ''.5 lbs. 9.7 314 u.S 12.1 Purple Purple Pturple Purple Purple Purple .... straw...,.. .................. ........ ........ straw............. ................. straw......... ... .. ........... straw................... straw........ .. ... ... ............... straw......................... .......... 3 4) 4 14.5 16.2 12.I 10.2 34 62 31 26 Purple straw .................... <<37 5 19.0 13.6 I2 34 16 straw.......... ....... ................ Equal areas were also planted at the same date in the follow- ing varieties, all of which grewv under identical circumstances: RESULTS. Seed From. Rus sted. sf~ct 16 Weight Per Plat. i I2 2 t ons t n lds La Huerta Mexico............... WolfMexico Janiro Mexico.................. Jropuerto Mexico ................ Ahuchettan Mexico......... (C.ologa Mexico............. .... ...................... Dept. Agricult're. nadly or r Fulcaster..................... Colorado MIultiplebead.......... R. Name unknown................. Purple Strawv................... Dept. Agri. ult're. None. Moore, Auburn. ;Rusted. E. Collier. lRusted. None Two plats of highly fertilized soil were planted in wheat 36 in 5 drills, twelve inches apart. One of these was carefully cultivated while the other was not, for the purpose of observing the effect of such cultivation. The soil, as was that of the other experixnents, deep sand, with no clay within a foot of the surface. At no stage of the growth of the plants could any difference in appearance be discovered. The seed of the Purple Straw wheat grown in the neighborhood was used. That cultivated produced 39 4-5 bushels per acre; that not ,cultivated produced 36Y bushels per acre. The difference was not enough to pay the cost of cultivation. Mr. Francis, of Calhoun county, Alabama, presented two bushels of wheat, of a new variety, claimed to have originated in Calhoun county, to the Commissioner of Agriculture, with the request that one bushel be experimented with at the experiment station at Auburn, and one at the Canebrake station. The bushel presented to this station was sown upon one acre of thin, sandy soil, fertilized with twelve bushels of green cotton seed, and two hundred pounds of cotton seed meal and acid phosphate mixed in equal quantities-oo pounds of each per acre. When the wheat headed, it was found to be badly mixed with the Purple Straw variety. Much waste occurred in separating the latter, after which a yield of bushels was measured from the acre. The wheat stood in shocks in the field until the first of September, and thus sustained another serious loss. Much of it was ripe on the Ioth of May. It was harvested May 14 th. There was no rust upon the stalk, but some upon the last leaf. Five grains to the mesh were not uncommon in this Wheat, and occasionally seven were found. It is a smooth-headed, velvet chaff variety, presenting a very peculiar appearance when ripe. It has a plump I red berry. Its milling properties have not yet been tested. was jointed 20th neglected to state that this wheat March, when the mercury registered 29 0 farh., "and many of the stalks were bursted by being frozen. Earliness and productiveness are two desirable qualities possessed by this variety. As it came to me w ithout name, I have christened it "Early Velvet Chaff." I is ten days earlier than the Purple Straw. 12T2 VARIETIES OF CABBAGE. The following varieties of cabbage were planted under identical circumstances for the purpose of comparing their earliness, productiveness, and heading qualities. They were planted too late to attain respectable weights. They were injured by both 37 6 resultsare -. drouth and heat, which diminished the size of the heads. obtained with- cabbage in this climate by very early planting. Some of the varieties here;reported were transplanted early in. February for domestic use, and produced heads weighing; from five to ten pounds each. The cabbage endures a reasonably low degree of temperature with less injury than excessive heat. It will be observed that the percentage of plants that headed under the unfavorable circumstances under which they grown, gives evidence of well bred seed. The date of heading. was noted when a number of plants of a variety had formed hard; marketable heads. The weights were obtained after stripping all loose leaves, leaving only those- suitable for cooking. Only the firm, merchantable heads were counted in determining the percentage headed. Best were RESULTS. NAM1E OF VARIETY. Seedsmen. Time of Average Per cent.that Heading. Weight in lbs. Headed. All Seasons.. ............... Ferry. June 260.94 A.ll Seasons................... Thorburn. June 222.00 Bloomsdale Brunswick...........Landreth. June 232.22 Bloomsdale Bullock Heart June 23 Bloomsdale Early Market . . June 22. Buncombe .................... U. S. DeptTooLate.. canon Ball......... ........ Dreer. June 21..529E Dreer's Large Early York ... . June 22 Early Cone ....... Landreth. June 2i3..o61oe Early Drumhead..............Dreer. June 202.02 Early Dwarf Flat Dutch......... Landreth. June 23 Early Dwarf Savoy.......... . .Thorburn. June 29. 2 2.07 ......... .95 35 2.07 0.90 0.41 ............ 80 77 . 54 100 83 83, 46' Early Flat Dutch......:......... Landreth. June 29. Early French Ox Heart.... Dreer. Improved Flat Brunswick. Dreer. Early Jersey Wakefield.... ).reer. Early Jersey Wakefield......Ferry. Early Mammoth Bulgaria...Thorhurn. Early June 26. June 22. June 1 3 . June 22. 0.62 2.89 1.55 50 46 75 70, 72 Early Paris Market..........Dreer. June 25. Early Sugar Loaf............... Early UlmSavoy.... ......... Early xinningstadt..... ....... Ferry's Early York ......... Ferry's Green Henderson' Early Sunrise. .. Dreer. Improved Early Summer. ... I horburn. Landreth's Earliest... ... ...... Landreth Landreth's Early Summer.... Landreth's. Large York..... " Large Early Jersey Wakefield... Dreer. Large Jersey Wvakefield.... .... sndreth Large Late Flat Dutch....Dreer. Late Drtumhead Savoy ... Thorhurn. Late Flat Dutch Glazed.:......Ferry. Landreth. Ihorhura Dreer. Ferry. June 25. June 22. June 23 June 23. June 22. Failure. 20. June 13. 1.781' 1.35 87 2.051 2.001 0517 1.55 1.431 .. June 87 54. c....s 9? 71 0 1.70 1.39 1.77 Jtune 9. June 22. June 22. June 21. June 221. .Jtune 26. June 26. .5 2.57 2.24 June 18. 1 } I 2.25 8 66 83 87 96 92 1.66 2.50 New York Larly Sumlmer.....Landreth. Reedland Early Drumhead... Select very early Jersey Wakefield.... ......... .. .. . +1 \vinningstadr .... .... .... .... 1June ............. 75 67 .. Ferry. ,.o6 June 18. June 22. June 22. 25. 1.85 1.73 2.45 1o0 92 8722 -1-58,75, 38 7 TOMATOES. A list of seeds of choice varieties of Tomato s were purchased from J. M. Thorburn, New York, D. Landreth & Sons, Philadelphia. D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Michigan, presented the station with an assortme nt of seed for experimental testing, and A. W. Livingston & Sons, of Columbus, Ohio, presented a number of their choice varieties which they originated. A number of our best varieties of Tomatoes have been originated by the Livingstons. In addition to the varieties tabulated, the yellow pear shaped and Landreth's Peach Tomatoe were cultivated. The former is a small, very prolific variety of best quality-excellent for table use, and especially adapted to preserving and pickling. The Peach is a small variety, resembling a peach in form and cyor, desirable only as a curiosity. Like Vick's Criterion and the small seedling Tomato, it has a decided core to which the seed are attached, and a thin flexible pulp, between which and the seed is a decided cavity. The seed of all these varieties were planted in In the green house February 20oth, and transplanted April productiveness, size, appearance and quality, these varieties of Tomatoes presented a picture, when in full bearing, that was exceedingly attractive. The utmost care and accuracy were observed in the classification of the varieties; the waste was ascertained by weighing a number of specimens of each variety, tht-n cutting from the stem end just so much as would be removed and discarded in an econcmical preparation of the tcmatoes for the table. The specimens were then weighed, and the differene divided between the number of specimens employed. This gave the average waste per specimen; several weighings were made, and the average taken. The size of the specimens is indicated by the diameter, which was the measurement of a section through the largest part at right angle to the axis. 7th. 39 VA RI]ETIES OF -OR 1 ; TOMATOES. 00 p . ~--r *1 NAME OF VARIETY. Seed men. B o H e 22. Cu Form. Color. Core. n Flvor. Corrugation S Remarks S5 Livingston. Landreth Landreth. Livingston. Ferry. Thorhumn. Thorhurn. Early Conquerr.... Ferry. Landreth. Early Jersey. Thorhurn. Early Advance. Essex Early Hybrid. Ferry. Landreth Feger Island. Fulton Market. Livingston. Golden Queen.. Ferry. Golden Queen.. Golden Queen ..... Thorhurn. (;olden 'Irophy.... Landreth. Imprv'd Large Yel. Thorhurn. Thorhurn. Improved Green Livingston's Fav'i te Landreth. Livingston. Perfection.. Livingston. Mikado ........... Thorburn. New Beauty... Livingston. New Jersey ... Thorburn. Paragon .... Livingston. Potato Leaf ... Livtngston. Prize Belle .... Thorhurn. Trophy .......... Livingston. Acme............ Beauty .......... Bermuda ex. Early. Bronze Foliage. Cincinnati Purple.. Conqueror. Essex Hybrid. Trophy ........... White Apple.. Thorhuro . Ferry. Pinkish red. Red. Bright red. 8023Irregular. Red. Red. 203 Iregular. Red. 5 Flat. 6%3 Round Flatish. Deep red. 523Flat. Bright red. Flatish roind. Red. 22 Round Red. 6 Round Dark red. .- Pinkish red. Very irregular. J July. so. 523 Very irregular. Red. J rJily 2. 6%~ Roundish Flat. Golden yellow. J 7. July 71 Round. Vellow. J June r6. 6 Round. Vellow. July 9. 6 Flat & irregtilar. Yellow. July o. 223 Flat. Dark yellow. JulY . Flat. Red. 8 June 23 683 Round smooth. Red. J 25. tune 7 Flatish round: Bright red. 523 Roundish. Dark red. June 28. oune 22. io%3 Irregular. Pinkish red. ulmy2. Red. 7 Roundish. une 23. 8%3Round flatish. Deep red. 28. 7r2 Round flatish. Deep red. ine 3o. 6 Round. Dark red. 'Ily 2. 7 Flat. Red. use 21. 6%, Roundish fiat. Red. 8%3Round flattened. Red ully 27. 7uly is. 8i3 Round. Light yellow. July 7. July 9. iJuly 5. July 86. June 22. June 26. June 28. July o. J 9. July June 29. Jutne 6 Round smooth. 6%3Roundish. 58 Flat. 783 None. None. Very-large. None. None. None. None. None. None. None. None. None. None. None. None. None. Decided None. o.% Best o. Poor. o./ Very good. o,%3Good. 0.3 o./ 0.23 Very good. Very good. Very good. o.23Good. 0./Good. *Ir None. None. Medium. None. Very slight. None. None.. None. Slight.'0..6 Very good. None. o. Best. Large. o.%Good. o0.% Best. None. d. % Best. None. Best. Nne. None. Decided lily Slight. None. None. None. None. None. None. None. None. None. Slight None. None. None. None. None. None. None. None. None. o.1/6/Best. o. 3 Very good. o./5 0.2% o. Poor. Very good. o.% Good. Very good. o. Best. u. Very good. i./3 Best. 0.86 Very good. o. / Good. None. None. :Very deep, Very marl ked. Slight. Distinct. None. Distinct. Slight. .None. Ntone. Deep and distinct.( Distinct. None. None. None. Medium. Very distir oct. Distinct. Slight. None Distinct. None. None. Very slightt. None. Sed. Very marki Slight. Slight. None. 38 3/ Irregular in form and soft Large and firm, hut irreg t. 33/ 32 314 r 33/ 3%~Quite irregular. 3's 25g Small, hut very choice. 4 3"j Streaks-irregular in frrn. 1. 3%~ 318i Tinged w ith red. 3%s 2%41 3%8Light hard streaks. 33 3/; A perfect Tomato. 3', o0 o..3 None. Very slight. None. INone. None. Very small. Nose. (None. None. o.,/ o i. est. Poor. 1314 ) 312 Hard streaks in seed cavity. A perfect Tomato. ^I/ Not 3812 fully ripe. i%~ Small butt very prolific. o. 83 Best. % Very good. Best NOTES ON VARIETIES OF CANTALOUPES. .0 NAME OF VARIETY. Seedsmen . O U . .0 wRemarks. Form. 8 Cavity. o a Planted March 24, r88: ~z Acme Citron......................Landreth. 2.5 Baltimore..........................Dept Ala. .- g Baltimore... ........ Ferry . 1.3-5 Bay View ..... ................... Dept Ala. 4% St 2.2-r, Pineapple.......................Auburn Ala. 2. Casaba......Lept Casaba............................Dreer .. 4 California yellow flesh .Citron... .. landreth. r Extra Early Citron Melon........... Landreth. '2-5-r8 1 Dept Ala. Creen Citron Nttmeg............ Dreer riI Golden Jersey...... .............. . i8 ..... Ferry .. Hackensack....... .......... Dreer .... 3.2 Hackenisack ........................ 3.68 improved Cantaloupe............. Dept Ala. a 41 Improved Orange Christina......Thorburn .. 2/ Improved Citron Nutmeg.......... ..... Ferry......................... Jenny Lind ............ .......... ....... Ferry ... 3% M'ontreal Markcet .......... .......... 4' Montreal..... ..................... 2.22 Netted Pineapple.................. Dreer .... Ala. 2.93 Prolific Nutmeg..............Dept 4 Prescott.......... ... .. .......... Dreer .... Landreth. 4 Reedland's Giant Citron............ a2% Ferry .... Sturprise.............. ............. .. a Woods' Nectar .................. Thorburn Very Good Oblong. i a-8 Very Small. Vellowish green Very good A beautiful melon; sweet and good. Perfect.... Round..... 2-8 s Small....Light green... Very good A superior melon. 8 Good..... Oblong. 2s Very Small. Light green.. Very good... .................................. Poor .. . VeryUbl'ng 4-8 8-SVery Large. Pale' green. Good. Sui,-scalded. A perfect melon. Very rood Oblong.... 2-3 8-8 Very Small. Pale green. Very Poor. Oblong. 2-3 8-8 Very Large. Sickly yellow None. .. . ... 0 tender and always sti-scalded. Insipid. Sun-scalded. Poot.r ... Very Obl'ng *8 8 Medium.... Sickly green. ....... .failure........... Very g od.... A very fine melon. Good...... Oblong. 2.8 r 4-8 Very Small. Green. Light green... Very good................................... 4-8 6-8 Laige ... Good. Round. .............. ....... ... ... ...... %8Large..Green......Good........ Very Good Rotindish 2.-8 Good.......................... Very Large. Pale Very Poor. Round ... ............. . . ......... ........ %~ 8-8 Medium Pale green Good..Round .. .. green Very poor... Failure. 4-3 8-8 Small..Sickly Good..Round . .. ... ellow . Go... ... ..........-...... % 8-8 Small Y.. None..Round .. Very good. . Had only one melon to test. 4-3 6-a Large........ ........... Go.....a1 u d Round . .............. Light green.................Failure....... .............. Poor......An inferior melon. a. -8 8-8 Medium... Pale green. Good . Round . ....... ............ ..... ........... Very Small. Pale green . . Poor ........ Good.... . Roundish . 4-8 .. . ... . ........ ... Good .... Oblon .. 4-8 6-8 Very Large. Pale gieen.... inferior melon; hait only otie to test. Poor.....An Round ... 8$ 6.8 Very Large. Sickly None .... Poor . Oblong. % 8 Very L.arge. Sickly green.... Pooc ... Badly sun-scalded. ... ...... .............. a-8 8-8 Medium... Vellowish green Poor.......... .. ....... Poor..Oblong..., a musk melon. Round . a.. -S8 7J Very Large. Sickly yellow.. Good......Like None . .. Had on ly o ne melon ..................................................... Was not te sted. 1... Good . .... green... Good .. ... ....... 1'4-8 yellow... Good ........ VARIETIES OF WATERMELONS. The following varieties of melons were planted as nearly as practicable, under identical circumstances, four hills of each variety. The following notes will convey some inform~ation as to the productiveness, character and quality of the varieties : NOTES ON WATERMELONS. bb.0 St NAME OF VARIETY. Seedsmen Color of Rind. Form. Corugations U 0a o Color of Seed. Quality. Remarks. 0 H Black Spanish........Ferry .. 221 Dreer .... Queen... .. Early Mountain Spro't 'horburn 117 3 Landreth . Extra Early. Ferry ... Ferry's Peerless ..... Florida Favorite. . .. Thorburn 131 Goodwin's Imperial.Thorbun 108 Improved Rattlesnake Thorburn 248 Icing................ Thorburn 7914 Ice Cream ... .... Thorburn 14434 Johnson's Christina .. Ala. Dept 1n5 Cuban 20.3- 20 24.7-36 Deep gr -en .. Round.. .. Very distinct Very distinct 6-8 Pale red.. Black............None. Poor. ... 8-a Sickly red Black ....... 7 None. Deep green, hard streaks. ......... Light green stripe. Round G9ood.................... 14.6-8 12. 13. 21 91 Y8 Distinct... . Green........ ... Rouiid . Mottled..........Oblong... . Very slight.. Round. . . Slight..... Gre,-n . ........ Green stripe Striped .... :. .5,-6 13.1 17.5-7 Oblong. ... Slight ... Distinct. .. Light green..Round green ... .. Very distinct Very (ibig. Wide, irr'glar Round .. Pink..Black............ /~ Red .... . White, bl'ck edges sY Deep red Small and white.. s Deep red White........... ... 8-8 Pale red. Black ........ 1/4 None. V'y insip. Very inferior None. Good .... Flesh stringy. None. Very good Grain fine and tender. None Best..Grain fine tender; choice melon ...... ............ . None Good .. None Very good Superior Red . .. White, black tips. None Very good Flesh tender-good. 16./4 22.1-12 Green ......... i'/ Red .... Black ..... ..... Light grey....Oblong... None....... . .Y Jordan's Gray Munch. Thorburn None... .16-8 1 9-4 -13 Striped......... ... Round .. :. Ferry .... 251 ... Kolb Gem ....... 1 IX, Light grey...Oblong..Slight. Landreth i'ng lig't ri'd Landreth 10514 17.?/ 664 13.4-2o Dark green...Oblong.... andreth's Boss..... Landreth. Mammoth Iron Clad. Thorburn 186%~23.%A Stnip'd or Rattles'k Oblong...Very slight..88 Slight,..... 615 Mountain Sweet .. . Dreer ... 17914 16.1-44 Dark Green...Oblong.... Distinct .. 8-8 l.ike Kolb Round .. New Round Excelsior Thorburn 102 20.3-obl'g. Slight...4-8 Orange.......Dreer .... 28f4 9.1-12 D~ark . 48 Round . ... 15.3-io Deep green .... 1714 Pride Georgia..Dreer .... .... 7934 13.4-I0 Mottled .......... Oblong .. . None. Phinney's Early...Ferry 6-8 Ala. 48 24. Peerless........Dept Dark green.....Very oblongl None .. 8-8 Oblong. 4Wide,distinct Scaly Bark.......... Dept Ala. 146 24., .1o Mottled 'i/ 29. % Mottled........ .. Rouind . .. (Distinct ... White Seed'd .Ice-cr'm Thorburn 1304 I Distinct... 1 Deep red. White... .. Red..Black.......... White.......... Red .. Red .... None Best .................... ... ....... None good Meat tough, and stringy. ................ None. Good.... Very Black ....... None. Good. ... .... ... ...... of Gem. green...Sli'tly Distinct. brown.. Red .Yellowish Pale red. Black ........... Pale red. Black ........... ....... Red ."Brown .... Deep red. White, bl'k border Red .. Red . Red... White. ...... Light brown.,, .. White ..... None. None. None. None. Solid. Poor..Very Good. ............ Very good............. Very good Very good melon; sweettendet Good..Same much like rattlesnake. .. ............ as Kolb Gem. Pale red. White, bl'k border None. Poor 14541 green..,, 6-8 None Very None. Poor .Flesh Small Good....... good IA ... . Mottled grey with slight lines very goodX melon. stringy and course. ..... ....... .. Iepor' of f. T.Lupon, helit During the quarter ending October Ist, fifteen specimens of fertilizers, containing Nitrogen and Potash, besides Phosphoric Acid, usually denominated "Complete Fertilizers," have been analyzed in the Chemical Laboratory ; also, one containing Potash, five Acid Phosphates, and four specimens of Natural Phosphates from Geneva, Alabama. In addition to these, nine specimens of Irish Potatoes raised on the Experimental Farm, ten soils and sub-soils from various parts of the State, and several other substances have been analyzed, the details of which are as follows': 43 12 0 " 011-e "o 00 0 1A L P~T.~- UOD 0 O: In N o Ma NHM C-I t-*MN't C--ON I N NN N01-N 1--0 NCNN CN N 'LS'Od NCC- N-No o N 0 n N Od" 6co\,o t"-I"- OcooN0NN0 N o tn N C- ON-C-C-t-. n HH00 MN O N O O C-N-N00N 1" - 2 °O t-01 U) 10N O N-H C0 "t Mcc- M M- o -O 1V 0-. -- OC-N 00 ON 0 U UN t N co 01 N-NNN NO '0-00 O -O-H CC-1-CN ON on -ON U)° ' 5 "I~~d'I I B O O N d- N MOM U H M M O>n )O 2 Ud(, N Nt o , L ctN Ncor r J rO I oN ICU v mO r. 0 I * NI ' 0 w ONO~ J Sa; NNN 0 +-+0H N: td- c; y N 00000 000N Sn) N O 101el 0 00 c HHH oH HH NN00 00 0 HH H . M t'0 mco M-0 HH 00N HH .ON UOTW1S Special attention is called to Nos. i,oob, 1,007 and 1012. The first mentioned was labled "Fertilizer," the other two, " McLaiarin's Am naniated Lime Phosphate," and are practically worthless to the planter as fertilizers. They are not, properly speaki,)g, "'phosphates," nor are they "ammoniated." Thel chief constituent is carbonate of lime. 44 13 MISCELLANEOUS SUBSTANCES. Station No. Mineral water from Petite, Kennedy Ala. This sample of water was examined qualitatively and found to contain 12.13 grains of solid matter in one U. 5. gallon. This consists of oxide of iron and salts ofdime and magnesia, in the form of chloiides, sulphates, and a little carbonate. The water may be classed as chalybeate, and will doubtless act as a mild tonic. Station No. 1o16. clay, supposed to be suitable for use in painting. Insoluble matter (silica and white clay.).......83.70 per cent. Oxide of iron...........................7.04 The remainder consists of water of combination, a little line and magnesia. It has too much clay for a good pigment. Station Nos. ioi8, 1019, 1020, 1028. Natural phosphates from J. C. 1cDougald, Geneva, Ala. In these phosphates, phosphoric acid alone was determined with the following results: No. ioi ... : Phosphoric acid.............19.17 per cent. 1014. James Red No. 1019 No.10200 .... cc c .. . 20.46 i. No. 1021.. . .74 0.48i i Two of the above were fragments of fossil bones, the others were fossil shells and rotten limestone. Station No. 1022. Iron ore, limonite from Messrs. McCall and Paine, Calera, Ala. Moisture...............................I 40 per cent. Water of combination ...................... 10.40 50 Silica.................................7 *Oxide of iron .......................... .. 74.50 Oxide of aluminium....................... . 1.92 +Phosphoric acid... ............. 2.96 Sulphur................................ a trace. *Equiv, lent to metallic iron ........... 52. 15 per cent. 1.29 <82.4 Mobile. ... 53.5 56.0a 1 573.5 78.3 80-.0 Monroeville.. 4 47.9 56. 62.8 65.6. Moulton...... 40.4 48.4 52.4 62.2 a68.8 75.0 77.9 Mt. Veriion.. 52.5 54.1 59.9 66.9 X74.3 78.6 80.2 368.9 77.7 8o.2 Opelika...... 45.8 50.7 56.9 62.81 Selma........... 49.3 52.0 55.8 64.01 )73.5 79.0 82.0 8o-.82.2 Troy...... ..... . JA 46.9 51,3 58.3 65.21 Auburn .... Carlowville .. 42.4 49.2 ,iz 51; z 8 30 274.4 -P 78.4 74.9 64.3 54.7 44.4 62.5 99 56.4 48.9 60.3 .103 47.2 49.0 82.0 73.4 66.2 52.4 43.8 62.7 98 78.5 72.5 62.2 52.7 47.5 203 79.0 73.8 62 7 52.2 47.9 62.9 78.0 72.0 5.8 50.0 42.9 6o.5 . 8r 8 77.1 68.o 59.2 53.5 65.9 8o. 2 76.2 69.5 5.4 52.7 66.6 77.4 70 7 59.2 48.4 42.9 6o .o "92 79.8 76.2 66 .o 56.8 52.3 66.2 204 62.3 52.2 46.9 63.2 205 78.4 74.8 81.o 74.4 66.6C 55.7 49.3 65.7 98 76.6 65.51 8o0.4 57.12 78.5 68.o.. 5 4 9 3 5 5 54