682 



(2) Compilahon of analyses made at Amherst, Massachusetts, 18G8- 

 1880 (pp. 283-313). — Tliis includes numerous analyses of chemicals, ref- 

 use salts, ashes, guanos, phosphates, refuse substances and animal 

 excrement used for fertilizing purposes ; of green fodders, hay, dry 

 coarse fodders, roots, grain, flour meal, by-})roducts, aud refuse, with 

 reference both to their feeding value and to their fertilizing constituents ; 

 of fruits, as api)les, pears, cranberries, peaches, grapes, strawberries, 

 currants, asparagus, aud onions; of sugar-producing plants, as beets, 

 sorghum, IS^orthern sweet-corn, musk-melons, etc. ; aud of dairy products, 

 including milk, skim-milk, cream, butter, cheese, and dairy salt. 



Meteorology (pp. 314-319). — The tabulated data include a meteo- 

 rological summary for each month of the year (1889), miscellaneous 

 phenomena, and the average temperatures for December, January, and 

 February-, and for June, July, and August iu each year since 1836. 



Massachusetts Hatch Station, Third Annual Report, 1890 (pp. 13). 



An outline is given of the work in the several departments of the 

 station. In meteorology " special study has been made of soh\r and 

 lunar halos and coronte, and their appearance, as precursors of coming 

 storms. A series of experiments has been carried on for some months 

 for the purpose of ascertaining the effect of dynamical electricity on 

 the growth and development of vegetation also the effect of incandes- 

 cent electric light on plant development, the results of which will 

 appear later in the form of a bulletin." 



Theelectrograph recently purchased for the station (See Experiment 

 Station Record, Vol. II, p. 30o), and thought to be the only comi)lete 

 instrument of the kind in this country, is described in detail, with illus- 

 trations. 



Massachusetts Hatch Station, Meteorological Bulletin No. 26, February, 1891 



(pp.4). 



A daily aud monthly summary of observations for February, 1891, 

 made at the meteorological observatory of the station, in charge of C. 

 D. Warner, B. S. 



Michigan Station, Bulletin No. 70, January, 1891 (pp. 41). 



Vegetables, varieties and methods, L. K. Taft, M. S. 

 Beans (pp. 3-7). — Tabulated and descriptive notes on 51 varieties. 



The followiug abort list of varieties will prove satisfactory for home or market 

 use: Wax hearts — Cylinder Black Wax, Yosemite, Mammoth Wax, and Pinkeye Wax. 

 Green-podded beans — Paris Canner, Ne Plus Ultra, Refugee, and Sion House. Field 

 beans — Aroostook, Bnrlingame, Suowliake, and .Jack Hatt No. 1^. 



