LITERARY NOTICES. 



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Forest Protection, and the Tariff on 

 Lumber. New York : Spirit of the 

 Tress. Pp. 35. 



The whole country is suffering to an in- 

 creasing extent every year from the disas- 

 trous effects of the removal of the forests ; 

 and the best economical thought of the na- 

 tion is busy with the problem of preventing 

 further destruction, and repairing the dam- 

 age that has already been done. Yet the 

 Government, in imposing a tariff on foreign 

 lumber, is offering a premium for further 

 destruction and a direct encouragement to 

 a continued course of ruin. Vigorous ex- 

 pressions of public opinion against this 

 senseless policy have been made through 

 various journals. The most important of 

 the protests are collected in this pamphlet 

 in aid of a fuller discussion and better un- 

 derstanding of the subject, and for the fur- 

 therance of measures for forest conserva- 

 tion. 



Annual Report of the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station for 1882. 

 Address, New Haven, Conn. Pp. 114. 



The station was removed on the 1st of 

 September last, from the rooms of the Shef- 

 field Scientific School to the property of 

 five acres, which had been bought for it on 

 Suburban Street, nearly a mile and five 

 eighths from the City Hall of New Haven. 

 The analyses were interrupted at that time, 

 yet nearly the usual number of fertilizer 

 analyses were made during the year, and of 

 these a large proportion were on samples of 

 complex composition. In connection with 

 analyses of salt and saltpeter at the request 

 of the Wilton Farmers' Club, the use of 

 those substances as antiseptic or preserva- 

 tive material is discussed. The testing of 

 milk has assumed much prominence ; and in 

 connection with it considerable information 

 of value is furnished respecting the qualities 

 of the specimens examined. In connection 

 with the reports of the analyses of fertiliz- 

 ers, a review of the fertilizer market is 

 given, with notices of the prices of its prin- 

 cipal staples ; and an interesting observa- 

 tion is reported of the value of marine mud 

 as a fertilizer. The reports on the analyses 

 of ensilage go to confirm, generally, the rep- 

 resentations previously made of the value 

 of that preparation. Interesting informa- 

 tion and suggestions are given in connection 



with the seed-tests, of which twenty-four 

 were made, mostly on sweet-corn and onion- 

 seed. 



Seed-Breeding. By E. Lewis Sturtevant, 

 M. D., South Framingham, Mass. 



The art of breeding seeds consists in 

 producing and selecting such variations as 

 may be found desirable, and then of estab- 

 lishing them so that they shall be trans- 

 missible either in their present or in an im- 

 proved condition, by seed. Bceeding may 

 be carried on through the act of selection 

 for several generations under well-consid- 

 ered conditions of environment, by which 

 the heredity of the seed in the desired direc- 

 tion shall be strengthened. Particular at- 

 tention is given in this pamphlet to the 

 means by which the best selections of seed- 

 corn may be developed, and established in 

 character. 



Report on the Development of the Min- 

 eral, Metallurgical, Agricultural, 

 Pastoral, and other Resources of 

 Colorado for 1881 and 1882. By J. 

 Alden Smith, State Geologist. Denver, 

 Col. : Chain & Hardy. Pp. 159. 



The report claims that, by virtue of the 

 largest returns, Colorado is the head of the 

 mining states of the world as a producer of 

 the precious metals. Its mines have also, 

 for the past two years, furnished more than 

 half the total lead product of the United 

 States. The mining field is very large, em- 

 bracing nearly all the mountain-ranges, and 

 is extremely inviting to all persons interest- 

 ed in that pursuit. The report is well ar- 

 ranged, and gives in succession a history 

 and description of the railroads of the State, 

 accounts of the resources of the several 

 counties, more general notices of certain 

 mineral and agricultural staples and indus- 

 tries, and a systematic descriptive catalogue 

 of the principal minerals in Colorado. 



The Manual Training-School of Washing- 

 ton University, St. Louis, 1882-83. C. 

 M. Woodward, Secretary. Pp. 45. 



The managers of this school do not as- 

 sume that in other schools there is too much 

 intellectual and moral training, but that 

 there is too little manual training for ordi- 

 nary American boys. They exact cfose and 

 thoughtful study with books, as well as with 



