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PUBLICATIONS. 



The year has been productive of numerous American text-books, 

 manuals, and Morks of reference suitable for use in college classes in 

 agriculture. Among books of this kind received at the Office of 

 Experiment Stations are the following: 

 Cotton: Its Cultivation, Marketing, Manufacture, and the Problems 



of the Cotton World. By C. W. Burkett and C. H. Poe. 



A popular discussion of the subject of cotton in all its economic aspects from the 

 preparation of the land to the final disposition of manufactured cotton fabrics. 



Clovers and How to Grow Them. By T. Shaw. 



A general description of the clover plant and popular directions for the growing of 

 clovers, with an entire chapter devoted to each of the more important varieties and 

 •species. 



How to Make a Fruit Garden. By S. W. Fletcher. 



The planting, care, harvesting, and storing of common orchard small fruits; meth- 

 ods of treating insect pests and fungus diseases. Formulas for spraying material and 

 grafting wax, and rules for the exhibition of fruits are among the topics treated in this 

 work. 



The Seed Grower. By C. Johnson. 



Gives detailed directions for the production of all different kinds of vegetable and 

 flower seeds commcjuly grown in the United States. 



Soil Physics and Laboratory Guide. By W. II. Stevenson and I. O. 

 Schaub. 



This book, which is the outgrowth of the laljoralory instruction given at the Iowa 

 Agricultural College, presents a series of carefully outlined experiments in soil physics. 



Soils. By E. W. Hilgard. 



This is a volume of over 600 pages embodying the matured fruits of a long and 

 varied experience, generally under pioneer conditions, in lioth liumid and arid regions. 

 The book includes a discussion both of the methods and results of direct physical, 

 chemical, and botanical investigations, as well as the subject-matter relating to the 

 origin, foi'mation, classification, and })hysical and chemical nature of soils. 



Soils and Fertilizers. By H. Snyder. 



This is the second edition of ''The Chemistry ol' Soils and Fertilizers," which lias 

 been entirely rewritten, new material added, and the laboratory practices made more 

 prominent. 



Profitable Stock Feeding. By H. R. Smith. 



Presents the results of investigations and experience in stock feeding in such a 

 way that they may be of use to the studcTit and investigator as well as to the stock 

 raiser. Not only stock feeding, but stock raising, milk jtroduction. the care and man- 

 agement of beef cattle, sheep, pigs, I'arni poultry, ami horses are discussed. 



The American Standard of Perfection. 



A manual for judginsj; domestic poiilliy, incliuling chicUen.s. duck.-^, turkeys, and 

 geese, published liy llie American rouilry Association. 



