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materiiils ami chemicals, as agreed upon by the statious in Connecticut, 

 Massachusetts, and New Jersey; and reports of analyses of nitrate of 

 soda,suli)hate of ammonia, dried blood, cotton-seed meal, castor pomace, 

 sulphate of potash, muriate of potash, cotton-hull ashes, precipitated 

 ])hosphate, dissolved bone-black, ground bone, tankage, sea-weeds, 

 sponge, i)igeon manure, and fish guanos. 



Florida Station, Bulletin No. 9, April, 1890 (pp. 16). 



Entomological notes, J. C. Neal, M. D. — Brief notes compiled 

 from different sources, including the author's observations, on the root 

 knot worm {Jleterodcra radieicoJa), cut-worms, cotton worm {Aletia 

 arnillaced), boll-worm {Heliothis urmigera), cotton stainer {Dysdercus 

 fiufurellus), leaf,v-legged plant bug {Lepfoglossus phyllopus), locust cos- 

 sus {Cossus [Xylcntes] rohmia\ Peck), auisota worm {Anisota senato- 

 ri/(), stinging slug {Lngoa operci(J<tris), rascal leaf-crumpler (Acrobasis 

 [Phyccta] nchulo), twig girdler {Oncideres cingtdatus, Say.), flea beetle 

 {Graptodera \JIaltica\ chalyhea), strawberry beetle (Haltica ignita), pro- 

 cris worm {Procris americana), imported cabbage butterfly {Pieris 

 rapa'), and orange scale insects. Directions for preparing various in- 

 secticides are also given. 



Iowa Station, Bulletin No. 9, May, 1890 (pp. 50). 



Comparative value of fodder plants and other feeding 

 STUFFS, 11. P. Speer (pp. 343-354). — In this article attention is called 

 to the close competition now existing in the business of farming and to 

 the necessity of skill in breeding and feeding animals if satisfactory 

 l)rofits are to be obtained. To aid the farmers of Iowa in the adoption 

 of better systems of feeding, explanations of the technical terms used 

 in the statement of analyses of feeding stuffs are given, together with 

 compiled tables showing the percentages of digestible nutrients, and 

 pounds of each group of these nutrients per ton for the forage plants 

 and other feeding stuffs commonly used in Iowa, and for a few others 

 that promise to be of value there; and a table of feeding standards 

 (German), with explanations of the utility of such tables and advice re- 

 garding the relative value of the different feeding stuffs. 



Iowa Station milk test. — A correction, G. E. Patrick, M. S. 

 (p. 355). — A correction of some minor errors of statement which had 

 crept into an article in Bulletin No. 8 (p. 307) of this station. 



The relative value plan at creameries, G. E. Patrick, M. S. 

 (pp. 35G-3G9). 



Preserving milk samples for testing. — "The pooling system of purchas- 

 ing milk, now universally practiced at separator creameries, is defensible 

 only on grounds of expediency, as a makeshift to be endured only until 

 a better system shall be developed. It makes no pretense to justice 

 jn its treatment of the individual patron; it places a premium on quantity 



