CONTENTS. Ill 



FIELD CROPS. Page. 



Dry farming investigations ia Montana, Atkinson and Nelson 38 



Grain investigations with wheat, oats, and barley, Atkinson 39 



Top-dressing permanent mowings, Brooks 39 



Top-dressing pastures. Brooks 40 



Alfalfa in Massachusetts, Brooks 40 



A new species of clover resembling white clover, von Weinzierl 40 



Perfect flowers in maize, Montgomery 40 



Results obtained by crossing com and teosinte. Van der Stok 40 



Arrangement of parts in the cotton plant, Cook and Meade 40 



Relation of drought to weevil resistance in cotton. Cook 41 



German colonial cotton-growing enterprises, Supf 41 



[Description of the oat plant], Bohmer 41 



The picking and handling of peanuts, Beattie 41 



Intensive potato culture in Ireland 41 



The assimilation of nitrogen by rice, Kelley 41 



Work in 1909 at the Vercelli Rice Experiment Station, Alice 42 



Seed roots in beet raising, Briem 42 



Use of sea salt as a fertilizer for beets, Mette 43 



The German beet harvest, Bartens 43 



Wheat experiments, Williams and Welton 43 



The lower price of beardless wheats in comparison with bearded wheats 43 



A new method of determining the variety groups of cultivated plants, De Cillis. 43 



German agricultural plant breeding, HilLmann • 43 



The importance of pure seed, Hiltner 44 



The determination of freshness and normal vitality in seed, Hiltner 44 



Seed work, 1910, Stone 44 



Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Seed Testing 44 



Calcium cyanamid as a herbicide for Cuscuta, Wagner 44 



HORTICULTURE. 



[Report of the] asparagus substation. Concord, Brooks 44 



Methods of storing cabbage over winter in Holland, Hayunga 45 



Compilation of analyses of fruits and garden crops, Haskins 45 



A complete handbook of fruit culture, Lucas 45 



Apples and pears, Bimyard 45 



Garden and orchard 45 



Climatic adaptations of apple varieties, Shaw 45 



A peculiar case of bud variation with the peach. Griffon 46 



Directions for grape culture, De Bano AG 



The seeds of Vitis vinifera and their significance as to varieties, Potebnja 46 



California as a wine country, Cluss 46 



Citrus trees in the lower Rio Grande, Griffing 47 



Curing the lemon, Allen 47 



The plantains, edible, ornamental, and fiber-yielding, Lopez y Parra 47 



Cacao; its cultivation and curing. Hart 47 



Garden helps, Hall 47 



Garden planning, Rogers 47 



Lilies, Grove 47 



The modern culture of sweet peas, Stevenson 47 



Sweet pea troubles. Stone 47 



Control of insect pests and fungus diseases, Scholl 48 



Insect pests and diseases of the apple 48 



Lime-sulphur sprays for apple diseases, Scott 48 



Further experience with fungicides and spraying apparatus, Waite 48 



[Spraying experiments in 1910], Reed 48 



The spraying of trees, Stone 48 



A new type of spray nozzle. Stone 49 



FORESTRY. 



The cost of growing timber, Kellogg and Ziegler '. 49 



Practical forestry in the Pacific Northwest, Allen 49 



A review of the forest administration of the Grand Duchy of Baden for 1909. . . 49 



A statistical review of forest conditions in Wurttemberg for the year 1909 49 



