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It can only be expected that a sngar beet socd wliicli is liigb biod will be able to 

 reproduce its kind when it has become Ailly acclimated and has received in its new 

 condition the same scientific treatment and selection wliicli it bad in its original 

 home. The <i;reat hope, therefore, of uniform production in the United States of 

 engar-beets high in sugar-producing power must be found in the establishment of 

 culture stations where ditferent varieties of beets can become fully acclimated, and 

 where they can receive the same careful scientific culture and selection which have 

 1)rought them up to their present state of excellence in Europe. 



DIVISION OF STATISTICS. 



Report No. 84 (new series), May, 1891 (pp. 159-238).— This 

 includes articles on the condition of winter wheat, rye, barley, and 

 mowing and pasture hinds; progress of cotton planting; spring plow- 

 ing; changes in cultivated area; effect of May frosts; temperature and 

 rain-fall; reports of State agents; better times for fanners; recent 

 facts regarding ramie; agriculture in Brazil: European crop report for 

 May ; notes on foreign agriculture ; and transportation rates for May. 



DIVISION OF VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY. 



Journal of Mycology, Vol. VI, No. 4 (pp. 136-207, illustrated). — 

 This number includes the following articles: Experiments in the 

 treatment of plant diseases, Part II — treatment of pear-leaf blight and 

 scab in the orchard, by B. T. Galloway and D. G. Fairchild; the peach 

 rosette, by E. F. Smith; tuberculosis of the olive, by N, B. Pierce; 

 recent investigations of smut fungi and smut diseases (concluded), by 

 Dr. Oskar Brefeld; ripe rot of grapes and apples, by E. A. South- 

 worth; anthracnose of cotton, by G. F. Atkinson; mycological notes. 

 II, by G. Massee; index to North American mycological literature 

 (continued), by D. G. Fairchild ; indexes to Yol. VI of Journal of 

 Mycology. 



DIVISION OF POMOLOGY. 



Bulletin No. 4. 



Relative merit of various stocks for the orange, H. E. Van 

 DemAN (pp. 21). — This bulletin is based on replies to a circular of inquiry 

 sent to orange growers in Florida and Louisiana, and contains a brief 

 discussion of the relative merits of sweet, sour, rough lemon, pomelo, 

 and other stocks for the orange; recommendations regarding the use 

 of orange stocks in Florida, Louisiana, and California; a description 

 of mal di Goma (foot rot, gum disease, sore shin, etc.), with suggestions 

 as to treatment; and a discussion of the mutual intiuence of stock and 

 scion. 



For Florida the rough lemon stock is especially recommended on 



