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62 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD [Vol. 89
Full-time buyers should be established in counties that produce 300 tons or
more of nuts.
The value of organic matter and irrigation in the production of potatoes
in Alabama, L. M. WARE. (Ala. Expt. Sta.). (Amer. Potato Jour., 20 (1943),
No. 1, pp. 12-23).-Experiments with potatoes at Auburn and Fairhope, Ala.,
1938-42, indicated that the values of irrigation and of organic material are
affected greatly by the time of the year applied, amount of fertilizer used,
climatic factors for a given year, level of organic matter in the soil, and by the
concurrent use or omission of the one or other practice. Both practices benefited
yield, with organic matter, as sericea lespedeza, vetch, or cowpeas, of the greater
importance to the spring crop and irrigation to the fall crop, although the full
value of each practice was obtained only in combination. See an earlier note
(E. S. R., 87, p. 513).
Nutrient value of some new phosphatic materials used on potatoes,
G. V. C. HOUGHLAND, K. G. CLARK, A. HAWKINS, and J. C. CAMPBELL. (U. S.
D. A. and Maine and N. J. Expt. Stas.). (Amer. Fert., 97 (1942), No. 7, pp. 5-8,
24, 26).-Potato fertilizers, each with P supplied by one of the ordinary and
triple superphosphates, calcined, fused, and dicalcium phosphates, monocalcium
chlorophosphate, and calcium and potassium metaphosphates, were compared
in Maine, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania from 2 to 4 yr., none of the materials
being injurious to potatoes. Yields did not always equal those with ordinary
superphosphate, but responses appeared satisfactory. Potatoes grown on acid
soils apparently could utilize P readily from the new phosphatic materials.
Effect of fertilizer on potato yields, B. E. BROWN. (U. S. D. A. coop.
Maine, Mich., N. J., N. Y., Ohio, Pa., and Va. Truck Expt. Stas.). (Amer. Fert.,
98 (1943), No. 1, pp. 7-8, 26, illus. 2).-Potatoes receiving fertilizer in 171 field
experiments over different periods in 7 States made an over-all average yield of
247 bu. per acre and unfertilized 174 bu. This was an increase of 42 percent,
or if results were weighted according to number of tests in each area the increase
averaged 91.5 bu. or 52 percent. Irish Cobblers grown 1917-38 on Caribou
loam in Aroostook County, Maine, averaged 334 bu. fertilized and 194 bu. unfertilized,
an increase of about 72 percent.
The Pawnee potato, W. C. EDMUNDSON, L. A. SCHAAL, and A. M. BINKLEY.
(Coop. Colo. Expt. Sta.). (U. S. Dept. Agr. Cir. 665 (1943), pp. 6, illus. 2).Pawnee,
developed by crossing Rural New Yorker and Katahdin potatoes, is a
rapid-growing variety with smooth, short elliptical to roundish uniform tubers
having very few and shallow eyes and relatively tough skin; has good cooking
and keeping qualities; and is very promising for both the early and late crop in
the Greeley (Colo.) district.
Registration of improved sorghum varieties, III, R. E. KARPER. (Tex.
Expt. Sta.). (Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron., 34 (1942), No. 3, p. 280).-Norkan, selected
from Atlas X Early Sumac and approved for registration (E. S. R., 86,
p. 185), is a white-seeded, early-maturing sorgo adapted for areas north of the
latitude where Atlas is grown.
The effects of soil structure on sugar beet growth, R. B. FARNSWORTH
(Ohio State Univ., Abs. Doctoral Diss., No. 35 (1941), pp. 167-183, illus. 7).The
main conclusion from the research has essentially been noted from another
source (E. S. R., 88, p. 16).
Sulfur and nitrogen deficiency relationships in sugar beets grown for
seed in Oregon, B. TOLMAN and G. L. STOKER. (U. S. D. A. et al.). (Jour.
Amer. Soc. Agron., 33 (1941), No. 12, pp. 1072-1079, illus. 4).-On sugar beets
grown for seed in the Willamette Valley, N deficiency was shown by retarded,
spindly growth, yellowish green color, and fewer plants entering into seed pro
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