ABSTRACTS OF PDBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 



IGRICULTURE. 



DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY. 



Bulletin ISTo. 28. 



prooeedtnas of the seventh annual convention of the 

 Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (pp. 238, 

 illustrated). — This is edited by Dr. H. W. Wiley, secretary of the Asso- 

 ciation, and includes a full report of the meeting held at Washington, 

 D. C, August 28-30, 1890, together with a statement of the methods 

 of analysis of commercial fertilizers, foods and feeding stuffs, dairy 

 jnodiicts, fermented liquors, and sugars, as adopted by the Association 

 for 1800-01. 



Farmers' Bulletin No. 3. 



Culture of the sugar beet, H. W. Wiley (pp. 24, illus- 

 trated). — This treats of the climatic conditions, soil, fertilizers, and 

 cultivation required by the sugar-beet, cost of growing, time of 

 harvesting, and method of ensiling; describes briefly the process of 

 beet-sugar manufacture ; and gives statistics of sugar production and 

 consumption. 



DIVISION OF STATISTICS. 



Album of Agricultural Graphics. — A series of colored maps 

 each illustrating the average value and yield of a single crop, by States, 

 during a period of 10 consecutive years. The crops are corn, wheat, 

 oats, rye, barley, buckwheat, potatoes, tobacco, cotton, and hay. There 

 is also a brief prefatory discussion of the values of farm crops, with 

 special reference to the differences in the value of the same crop in dif- 

 ferent States. 



[For example], the extremes in value per acre of corn are $24.32 and $6.19. Eighteen 

 States and Territories average above $15. Ilaltof these are east of the Alleghanies and 

 north of Delaware; the other half on the Pacific coast and in the Rucky Mountain 

 region. In the former the cause is found in large yield and high ijrices, both the result 

 of demand for cousutnptiou by a large proportion of the popnhitiou engaged in non- 

 agricultural industries. In the latter the cUuuite is not so well suited to maize, and 

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