Within the last two or three years the attention of the agricultural world has been directed to the importance of the correlation of the chemical and physical properties of soils with the crops and systems of agriculture which farmers have found most suitable to them.

Kernel volume, because of its relation to the ratio of endosperm to non-endosperm structures, varies directly with the potential flour yield when comparisons are restricted to the same type or variety of wheat.

Accurate determination of kernel density must include the complete removal of all mechanically held air.

In the early part of the present year the suggestion was made to me by my friend Mr J. C. F. Fryer that I should carry out a series of experiments designed to test the fly-breeding capacity of the open farm manure heap as distinguished from heaps in close proximity to dwellings.

Most of the soil investigations in this country have been conducted at Rothamsted or other parts of South Britain and the soils examined have been chiefly those overlying the stratified rocks of the southern half of England. These, however, are by no means typical of the whole of Britain and research is needed into soils found extensively in Scotland and other parts of Britain which differ greatly in their origin, nature and properties from those which have hitherto been the chief subjects to which British investigators have devoted attention. The various agricultural colleges are taking up the study of the soils of their respective districts, and when the Farm of Craibstone was acquired as an Experiment Station by the North of Scotland College, a series of soil investigations was immediately commenced.

One of the most common complaints of users of palm nut kernel cake is that it is liable to become rancid on keeping. Rancidity developing in an oil-seed residue like palm nut kernel cake is likely to be due to splitting of the fats of the cake by a fat-splitting ferment or enzyme— a lipase—formed under certain conditions. The resting seeds do not contain lipase, but they are likely to contain a zymogen from which under suitable conditions lipase is formed.

The object of the experiments described below was to establish, more clearly to what the fungicidal value of alkaline sulphide solutions is to be attributed.

On January 3rd, 1915, the Little Ouse burst its right bank not far from the Feltwell 2nd District Pumping Station, and as a result thousands of acres of fenland became flooded. The portion of the flooded land on which the following observations were made is a part of Southery fen situated near Southery, Norfolk. It lies between Peckett's Farm and Turf Fen Farm, and belongs to the Norfolk County Council. This land is some distance from the place where the burst occurred, and as a consequence there was no deposit of silt. The height of the flood here was about nine feet. The water was gradually pumped off and the land cleared by September, 1915.