706 REl'OJiT OK OFFICE OF EXPKRlMf:NT STATIONS. 



"Wati-r: Cliai)ter VII, Motals; ChapU-r VIII, Nonmetals; Chapter IX, Oxides and 

 Salts, Acids and Alkalies; Chapter X, Carbon Compounds; Chai)tfr XT, The Ash 

 an<l Volatile Portion of IMants; Chapter XII, Soil Food of Plants; Chapter XIII, 

 Seed -Germination; Chapter XIV, (Irowth — Oflice of Leaves; Chapter XV, 

 Growth — Sap Movements; Chajjter XVI, BlossoniH and Theii- Functions; Chapter 

 XVII, Farm Seeds; Chapter XVIII, What Are Soils?; Chai>ter XIX, Lava and 

 Peat Soils; Cliapter XX, Ilinnus and Stones; Chapter XXI, Properties of Soils; 

 Chapter XXII, Conditions of Fertility; Chapter XXIII, Classifieation of Soils; 

 Chapter XXIV, Some Constituents of Soils; Chapter XXV, Soil Physics; Chapter 

 XXVI, What Frost, Water, and Air Do to Rocks; Chapter XXVII, Removed 

 Soils; Chapter XXVIII, Formation of Surface Soil and Subsoil; Chapter XXIX, 

 Soil Chemistry; Chapter XXX, Soil Chemistry — continued; Chapter XXXI, Cul- 

 tivation — A Means of Knricliintr Land; Cliapter XXXII, Cultivation — A Means 

 of Cleanini; the Land; Chapter XXXIII, Cultivation — A Prej)aration for Seed; 

 Chapter XXXIV, Cultivation — An Aid to Root Development; Chai)ter XXXV, 

 Tillage; Chapter XXXVI, Iniplements for Woiking Soils — Plows; Chai)ter 



XXXVII, Iniiilements for Working Soils — Cultivators, Harrows, etc.; Chapter 



XXXVIII, Implements for Sowing Seed; Chapter XXXIX, Implements for 

 Interculture; Chapter XL, Exhaustion and Improvement of Soils; Chapter X LI, 

 Claying and Sanding, Paring and Burning, Marling, Warping, etc.; Chapter XLII, 

 Drainage; Cha])ter XLIII, Drainage Systems and Metliods; Chai)ter XLIV, Irri- 

 gation; Chapter XLV, ISIanure; Chaj)ter XLVI, The Character and I'reparation 

 of Farmyard Manure; Chapter XLVII, C'ompositiiMi and Effect of Farmyard Ma- 

 nure; Chapter XLA'^III, Food in Relation to Manure; Cha^rter XLIX, Other Gen- 

 eral Manures; Chapter L, Phosphatic ^Manures; Chajtter LI, Nitrogenous ^lanures; 

 Chapter LIl, Potash and Other INIanures; Chapter LIII, Lime; Chapter LIV, 

 Rotation of Crops; Chapter LV, Rotation for a Light Soil; Chapter LVI, Rotation 

 for a Clay Soil; Chapter LVII, Rotation for Loams; Chapter LVIII, Distinctive 

 Characteristics of Crops; Chapter LIX, Wheat and Rye; Chapter LX, Barley; 

 Cliapter LXI, Oats; Chapter LXII, Meadow Grass and Meadow Hay; Chapter 

 LXIII, Grass Seeds; Chapter LXIV, Beans and Peas; Chapter LXV, Leguminous 

 Fodder Crops — Vetches, Clovers, Sainfoin, Lucerne; Chapter LXVI, Other Fod- 

 der Crops; Chapter LXVII, Root Crops — ■Mangel- Wurzel, Turnip; Chapter 

 LXVIII, Root Crops— Swede, Potato; Chapter LXIX, Harvesting and Other 

 Machinery; Chapter LXX, Conclusion. 



1895. Our Canadian Prairies. Being- a Description of the Most Nota- 

 ble Plants of Manitoba; the Chief Noxious Weeds and How to 

 Destroy Them; the Trees and Wild Fruits, along with Arbor-Day 

 Exercises and Poems. C. Blackett Robinson/jToronto. Copyright 

 1895. Pp. 162. Manitoba Course of Agriculture, first series. 



Plant life in Manitoba; flowers and gardens; the flower of the heart (poem); 

 how to collect and preserve plants; how to tell the flow^ers; thirty notable plants; 

 the Carmen Hill convention; Shakespeare praises country life; Arl)or Day — its 

 importance to INIanitoba. Appendix: Key for determining plants; explanation of 

 terms; four model schedules; list of thirty notable plants — their common and 

 botanical names and times of flowering; list of eleven noxious weeds of Manitoba; 

 list of fourteen wild fruits of Manitoba; list ..f sixteen forest trees of Manitoba. 



1895 (?). Prairie Agriculture. Containing a List of Chemical Ex- 

 periments; A Series of Experiments on the Growth of Seeds; A 

 Description of How Plants Grow; A Sketch of the Formation of 



