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clovers; Kentiicky bluegrass ; redtop; side-oats grama; whcat-f^rasses ; grasses 

 and legunies of less impoi'tauce — Pastures and meadows: Native grasses: care 

 of native pastures and meadows ; tame pastures at the Xebraslva Experiment 

 Station ; the seed bed for grasses and clovers — Annual forage croj)s : fiorgliuni ; 

 millet; cowpea ; small gi'ains; corn; soy bean; rape; Canada field ])ea ; 

 vetch — Plants vvhii-h can not be recommended — Index of grasses and forage 

 plants — Description of plates. 



* No. 60. A Soft Rot of the Calla Lily. By C. O. Townseiul, Pathol- 

 ogist. 1904. 47 pp., 9 pis., T figs. Price, 10 cents. 



Contents: Introduction — Cause of the calla rot — General apju-arance of the 

 disease — Effect of the organism on the calla — ^^lorphological characters of the 

 organism — I'hysiological characters of the organism : Nutrient media ; beef 

 broth ; agar plate cultures ; agar streak cultures ; agar stab cultures ; beef 

 agar, witli iron sulphate; gelatin stab cultures; i_^<xg albumen; milk; litmus 

 milk; litmus milk in nitrogen; Uschinsky's solution; Dunham's solution; 

 IJunham's solution, with acid f uchsin ; Dunham's solution, with indigo- 

 carmine; peptone solution, with rosolic acid; Dunham's solution, with methy- 

 lene blue; steamed potato cylinders; raw potato; raw egg])lant; raw cauli- 

 flower; raw radish; raw cucumbers, sliced; raw cucumbers, whole; raw 

 green peppers; raw mature onions bulbs; raw young- onions; raw pieplant; 

 raw cabbage ; raw parsnips ; raw carrots ; raw turnii)s ; raw salsify ; raAV 

 tomatoes, ripe ; raw tomatoes, green ; raw apples (York Imperial) ; raw pine- 

 apples ; raw yellow^ bananas; g'as; action on lead acetate; indol ; nitrates 

 reduced to nitrites; nuixliuum temperature; minimum temperature; opti- 

 mum temjjerature ; thermal death jioint ; diffused light; direc-t sunlight; 

 effect of nitrogen; effect of carbon dioxid ; effect of hydrogen — Comparison 

 of calla-rot germ with similar organisms : Bacillus carotovorus Jones ; Bacil- 

 lus oleracea? Harrison ; lleinz's hyacinth germ (Bacillus hyacinthi sejrticus) ; 

 Potter's Pseudomouas destructans — Origin and spread of the disease — lieme- 

 dies — Summary — Description of plates. 



No. 61. The Avocado in Florida ; Its Propagation, CidtiA^ation, and 



Marketing. By P. H. Rolfs, Pathologist, in Charge of 



Subtropical Laboratory. 1904. 3G ])i)., 4 pis., 9 figs. 



Price, 5 cents. 



Contents : Introduction — The name avocado — Literature — Distribution and 

 time of blooming — The avocado for wind-breaks and shade trees — Methods of 

 starting- an orchard: The seed bed; the nursery; cultivation in the nursery; 

 budding; grafting; transplanting to the field; top-working trees; cultiva- 

 tion ; fertilizers — Superiority of budded trees — Variation of fruit from seed- 

 ling trees: Description of variations — Marketing: Picking; grading and 

 sizing ; packing- — The fruit : The edible portion ; seed and seed cavity — Shape 

 of the tree — Forms and varieties : The Mexican avocado ; the West Indian- 

 South ^Vmerican avocado ; the ideal avocado — Uses of the fruit — Diseases : 

 Leaf disease ; remedy ; fruit disease ; remedy — Summary — Description of 

 plates. 



No. 62. Notes on Egyptian Agriculture. By George P. Foaden, 



B. Sc, Secretary of the Khedivial Agricultural Society, 



Cairo, Egypt. 1904. 61 pp., 6 pis., 3 figs. Price, 10 



cents. 



Contents : Introduction — Composition of Nile mud during flood — Irrigation 

 and fertilizers — Soils — Labor — Value of land — Animal labor — Seasons — Cotton: 

 Distance between the cotton beds ; date of planting cotton ; sowing cotton ; 

 watering cotton ; manuring cotton ; suminary — Varities of cotton grown in 

 Egypt : Ashmouni ; lower Egypt cottons ; Mit Afifi ; Abbasi ; Jannovitch — 

 Seed selection — Picking cotton — Marketing- cotton — Cotton and cotton-seed 

 exports — Sugar cane — Beets — Berseem, or Eg-yptian clover — Lucern (alfalfa) — 

 Corn — Wheat and barley — Beans — Rice — Onions — Millets and sorghums — 

 Minor crops : Lentils ; earth nuts, or peanuts ; chick-peas ; lupines ; fenu- 

 greek ; flax. 



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