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Bulletin: Volume 3, Issue 36

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Hybrid roses, gooseberries and strawberries.
( 2017-07-25) Budd, J. ; Extension and Experiment Station Publications

In Bulletins No. 22 and 32 a brief history is given of our work in crossing the Russian wild rose (rosa rugosa) and our Iowa wild rose (Rosa Arkansana) with pollen of some of our best garden varieties.

The purpose at present is to give some brief notes on the thrift and relative hardiness of varieties, character of flowers and habits of flowering. Cut No. 1, appended, gives a view of the hybrid plantation on June 15, 1897.

The vigorous and thrifty plants of the plantation are all supposed to be hybrids, as the work of crossing was done with great care and every bush is varied in habit, leaf or flower from the mother type. Over ninety per cent of the plants bear single flowers, with only live petals, but they are singularly varied in size and color of flower, size and color of the hips, and size, shape, and net veining of leaf.

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Some botanical notes on corn.
( 2017-07-25) Pammel, L. ; Combs, Robert ; Extension and Experiment Station Publications

Corn is one of the chief crops of the Iowa farmer. In point of importance it is exceeded in value only by the hay crop, thus the tenth United States census records the yield of corn for Iowa at 275,014,247 bushels, and the eleventh census gives the yield of corn for Iowa at 313,130,782 bushels. Mr. Sage, of the Iowa Weather Service, reports the total yield of corn for Iowa in 1895 at 313,092,210 bushels, having a value of $43,916,909.40, and that last year’s hay and pasturage was valued at $57,866.480.

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The San Jose scale.
( 2017-07-25) Osborn, Herbert ; Extension and Experiment Station Publications

Although this dreaded pest is not known to occur at any point in Iowa, it seems essential to bring it to the attention of all interested in fruit trees, forest and ornamental shrubs.

Early in the season we issued a press circular calling attention to the imminent danger of its introduction (if not indeed already present but unnoticed) especially since it has been found in very serious abundance in the adjacent states of Illinois and Missouri.

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Seed testing.
( 2017-07-25) Ball, C. ; Extension and Experiment Station Publications

The economic importance of seed testing cannot be over-estimated. If the farmer or gardener sows seed which has lost its vitality he loses not only the original cost of the seed, but also the time and labor of sowing and the immediate use of the land on which it was planted. If he sows impure seed he suffers similar loss in proportion to the amount of adulteration and at the same time introduces noxious weeds which require a prolonged and expensive effort for their extermination.

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