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The porphyrite soils of the Southern Harz region, Gruner 223 



Chemical analyses of some Benadir soils, Rossi 223 



Note on the soils of Bengal, Mookerjee 223 



The law of minimum and the law of diminishing soil yields, Mitscherlich 223 



Soil fertility, Hunt 223 



Various smaller experiments with fertilizers and soils, Shulov 223 



Vegetation and laboratory experiments, Prianishnikov et al 224 



Experiments on the fertilizer requirements of soils, Doyarenko 224 



Report of the chemist, Gile 224 



An analysis of nitrate of soda, Schulze 224 



Precautions to be taken in employing nitrate of soda as a top-dressing, Hitier. . 224 



The great guano deposits of Peru 225 



The development of the ammonia industry in gas works, Hilgenstock 225 



Brief statistical notes on sulphate of ammonia, Siemssen 225 



Ammonia from Boot, Steely 225 



On the electrochemical fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, Zammarchi 225 



Manufacture of lime nitrogen, II, Foerster and Jacoby 225 



The industry related to atmospheric nitrogen, Manueili, trans, by Quesneville. 225 



The cyanamid industry of France, Pluvinage 225 



The new nitrogenous fertilizers in our agriculture, De Cillis 226 



Various experiments with calcium cyanamid, De Cillis 226 



Fertilizer experiments with lime nitrogen, Behrens 226 



The influence of calcium carbonate on transformations of cyanamid, Verevkin. 226 



The agricultural value of lime nitrogen, Frear 226 



German potash industry, Thackara 226 



The use of potash in German agriculture in 1908, Krische 227 



Different forms of phosphoric acid in commercial fertilizers, Ravent6.=i 227 



Drying of superphosphates, Pierron 227 



The world's production of mineral superphosphate in 1908, Maiziferes 227 



The phosphate deposits of the United States, Van Horn 227 



Production of phosphate rock in Florida, Sellards 227 



' ' Humifera " as a fertilizer, De Cillis 227 



Report of the fertilizer division, Haskins 228 



The inspection of commercial fertilizers in 1907 228 



Analyses and valuation of commercial fertilizers, Cathcart et al 228 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers, Frear 228 



AGRICULTUKAL BOTANY. 



The influence of various salts on the germination of corn, Chudinuki 228 



Influence of electricity on micro-organisms, St(me 228 



The efiect of colored lights on carbon dioxid assimilation, Kniep and Minder. . 229 



The transpiration current in submerged water plants, Thoday and Sykes 229 



Investigations of Phaseolus vulgaris at different stages, Pfenninger 229 



The concentration of asparagin in seedlings of Viciafaba, Krestovnikova. 229 



Alleged utilization of atmospheric nitrogen by special trichomes, Kovessi 230 



The presence of a cyanogenetic glucosid in Linaria striata, Bourquelot. ... 230 



Investigations on the effect of formaldehyde on green plants, Grafe and Vieser. 230 



Smoke injury from steam engines, Herbig 230 



Studies in heredity of Juglans, (Enothera, Papaver, and Solanum, Cannon 230 



Variation in peas, Waugh and Shaw 230 



On self-sterility in red clover, Witte 231 



FIELD CROPS. 



Report of the agriculturist. Brooks, Fulton, and Gaskill 231 



Report of the agronomist. Ten Eyck 232 



Report of the cooperative experiment station, McPherson, Cory 232 



First report of the agricultural college farm, Poona, Knight 232 



Oil-yielding grasses grown at Bandarawela, Jowitt - - 232 



Experiments on the manuring and inoculation of the bean crop, Wright 232 



The cost of a bushel of corn. Brooks 232 



Corn judging, Moore 233 



Annual report of the Ontario Corn Growers' Association, 1908 233 



Cotton breeding for farmers, De Loach 233 



Observations on the effects of storage on cotton seed, Tempany 233 



Report of the flax supply association for 1908-- - 233 



