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* Xo. 23. Berseem : The Great Forage and Soiling Crop of the Nile 



Valley. By David G. Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer 

 for Seed and Plant Introduction. 1002. 20 pp., 14 pis. 



Contents: Introduction — (ieneral uses — Varieties: Miiscowi ; Faehl ; Saida — 

 Use as a green fodder — Herseeni as a ha3' crop — Conclusion — Description of 

 plates. 



No. 24. The Manufacture and Preservation of Unfermented Grape 

 Must. By George C. Husmann, Expert in Charge of Viti- 

 cultural Investigations, Pomological Investigations. 1902. 

 19 pp., 1 1)1.. 4 figs. Price, 10 cents. 



Contents : Introduction — Historical notes — Composition of the grape — 

 Causes of fermentation — Methods of ]ireventing fermentation — Process used in 

 California — Methods used in the Eastern States — Home manufacture — Uses of 

 imfermented must — A few good recipes — Analyses of grape must — Prices and 

 statistics. 



No. 25. Miscellaneous Papers. I. The Seeds of Rescue Grass and 

 Chess. By F. H. Ilillman, Assistant, Seed Laborator3\ 

 II. Saragolla AVheat. By David G. Fairchild, Agricul- 

 tural Explorer. III. Plant Introduction Notes from 

 South Africa. By David G. Fairchild, Agi'icultural Ex- 

 plorer. IV. Congressional Seed and Plant Distribution 

 Circulars, 1902-1903. 1903. 82 pp., 3 pis., 6 figs. Price, 

 15 cents. 



Contents : The seeds of rescue grass and chess. Saragolla wheat. Plant 

 introduction notes from South Africa : Introduction — Some Cape seedling 

 grape varieties: The Red Hanepoot grajw ; Yitis rupestris metallica ; Vitis 

 rupestris Le Roux — Fruit-bearing hedge plants — Rhodes grass — The Kafir plum 

 as a shade tree — The Rooibloem, a new corn parasite — The Natal pineapple. 

 Congressional Seed and Plant Distribution circulars, 1902-1903: Plan of dis- 

 tribution and allotments — Distribution of novelties and sjiecialties — Directions 

 for planting bailbs — Distribution of cotton seed — Rivers Sea Island cotton — 

 Sea Island cotton No. 224 — Iron cowpea — Kleinwanzleben sugar beet — Distri- 

 bution of tobacco seed and cultural directions. 



* No. 26. Spanish Almonds and Their Introduction into America. 



By David G. Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer, Seed 

 Introduction and Distribution. 1902. 16 pp., frontis- 

 piece, 7 pis. 



Contents: Introduction — The almond industry in Spain: Varieties of 

 Spanish almonds ; method of planting and culture ; gummosis of the alrriond — 

 Possibility of establishing the Jordan almond in America — Description of 

 plates. 



No. 27. Letters on Agriculture in the West Indies, Spain, and the 



Orient. By David G. Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer, 



Seed and Plant Introduction and Distribution. 1902. 40 



pp., 5 pis. Price, 15 cents. 



Contents : Agriculture in the British West Indies — Jamaica yam cultiva- 

 tion — Opportunities for agricultural and botanical research in the Philippine 

 Islands — Agricultural conditions in Spain — Notes on conditions in China — The 

 Persian Gulf region — I'reeds of milch cattle and carabaos for the Philippine 

 Islands — Agriculture in Jajian — Descrij)tion of plates. 



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