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Nevada Station, Bulletin No. 10, July 31, 1890 (pp. 4). 



The PEA.R AND CHERRY SLUG, F. H. HiLLMAN, B. S.— A popular 

 account of the pear aud cherry slug {Selandria cerasl, Peck), with sug- 

 gestious as to remedies, prepared in view of the fact that this insect 

 is at present doing serious injury to fruit-trees in Western Nevada. 



Nevada Station, Bulletin No. 11, September 5, 1890 (pp. 7). 



Plant-lice infesting the apple, F. II. Hillman, B. S. (illus- 

 trated). — Popuhir accounts of Aphis mall, A. malifolkv, and Schizoncura 

 lanigera and their natural enemies, with suggestions as to remedies. 

 The bulletin is iluistrated with eleven figures, some of which are from 

 original drawings. 



New Jersey Stations, Bulletin No. 68, April 30, 1890 (pp. 15). 



EXPERL\1E\TS WITH DIFFERENT BREEDS OF DAIRY COWS, M. E. 



Gates, Pii, 1). — This is a continuation of the experiment })reviously re- 

 ported in Bulletins Nos. 57, 61, and 65 of this station (See Experiment 

 Station Eecord, Vol. I, pp. 258 and 260, and Vol. II, p. 162). This bulle- 

 tin includes tabulated statements under two heads, viz., "(1) monthly 

 re(;ords of the food eaten and the yield of milk for February, March, aud 

 April, 1890 ; (2) the analysis of milk, which includes total solids and 

 fat for February, and the complete analysis for March and April." 



New Jersey Stations, Bulletin No. 69, July 15, 1890 (pp. 15). 



Analyses and valuations of complete fertilizers, E. B. 

 VooRHEES, M. A. — Tabular statement of analyses of eight.y complete 

 fertilizers, with calculated valuations and selling i^rices, and schedule 

 of trade values of fertilizer ingredients for 1890. 



Of the eighty samples esamiued aud published ia this bulletin over 50 per cent 

 coutaiu uiore of each of the plant food eleiueuts thau the uiauufacturers claim; two 

 saiuplesare below in all respects; the remaiuder show evidence of imperfect mixing, 

 though the commercial value of the plant food furnished in many of these brands is 

 greater thau won hi have beeu secured, if the guarantees had been fully reached in' all 

 respects. 



New Jersey Stations, Bulletin No. 70, July 26, 1890 (pp. 15). 



Some fungous diseases of the spinach, B. D. Halsted, U. Sc. 

 (illustrated). — Spinach grown under glass in New Jersey was seriously 

 atiected with fungi during the exceptionally warm aud wet winter of 

 1889-90. In this bulletin are reported the results of an investigation 

 in which four species of parasitic fungi were met with on spinach, 

 namely, spinach mildew {Peronospora effusa, Rabenh.), spinach authrac- 



