rV CONTENTS. 



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Flax growing in Montana, Atkinson and Swingle 133 



Nitrate of soda and ammonium sulphate as fertilizers for oats, Svoboda 133 



Winter oats for the South, Warbiulou 133 



Potatoes, Parsons 133 



Ramie (llhea), China grass. Carter 134 



A contribution on the breeding of rape and tui'nips, Hummel 134 



The wild rice of tropical Africa, Chevalier 134 



Influence of climate on the sugar content of the modern sugar beet, Strohner. . 134 



Correlation between weight and sugar content in beets, Plahn 134 



Methods of making germination tests of sugar-beet seed, Plahn 136 



Test of treated and untreated beet seed, Giinther 136 



Fifteen years' practical experience in beet-seed production, Schmidt 136 



Tests of six varieties of wheat, Compain 136 



The heating of seeds, Miege 136 



Weeds and how to eradicate them, Shaw 136 



HORTICULTURE. 



The fruit gi'owers' guidebook, Favor 136 



Fruit growing at Weraroa Experimental Farm, Boucher 136 



Suggestions on commercial muskmelon growing, Walker 136 



Spraj-ing cucumbers and cantaloupe, Johnson 136 



Orchard and garden spraying, Rugglcs and Stakman 137 



Spray and practice outline for fruit growers, 1911, Eustace and Pettit 137 



Spraying the apple orchard, Dickens and Headlee 137 



How to control the scab and blotch of the ap])le, Hewitt 138 



Self-boiled lime-sulphur wash and its use, Williams and Price 138 



The reserve materials of the vine, Vidal 138 



Preparing citrus fruits for market. Temple 139 



Experimental tea plats, Peradeniya, Bamber and Holmes .* 139 



Home floriculture. Page 139 



The gladiolus, Crawford 139 



FORESTRY. 



The taxation of forest lands in Wisconsin, Chittenden and Irion 139 



Shall States regulate the management of private forests? ('hapman 140 



The National Forest manual. — Special uses 140 



Fifth annual report of the Forest Park Reservation Commission of New Jersey . 140 



[Forestry in North Carolina], Pratt and Holmes 140 



Forestry in Russia, W^ood 140 



Climatic differences upon northern and southern slopes in their relation to the 



water content of clean-cut and forest-covered soils, Wallenbock 140 



A critical discussion of forest manm-ing experiments, Elirenberg 141 



The utilization of machinery in the cultine of pines, Schenk von Schmittburg. 141 



Harvesting the annual seed crop, Moore 141 



The growth and management of Douglas fir in the Pacific Northwest, Munger.. 141 



Trees of the Tasmanian forests of the order Myrtacea?, Rodway 142 



The tree species of Java: Contribution No. 12, Koorders and Vale ton 142 



The \di'gin forests of Kamerun, Jentsch 142 



A study of the wood-using industries of Kentucky, Simmons l42 



W'ooden and fiber boxes. Maxwell and Sackett 142 



Rubber: Production and utilization of the raw product, Beadle and Stevens. . 143 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Methods of keeping bacteria from growing plants, W'ileon and Harding 143 



The dissemination of microscopic spores in the atmosphere. Bonnier et al 143 



New or rare species of fungi in the environs of Palermo, Mattel 143 



A method of developing ClaAdceps, Whetzel and Reddick 143 



The smuts of grain crops, Freeman and Stakman 144 



Studies of the life history of the head smut of sorghum, Potter 144 



Infection experiments with legumes, Brux 144 



Studies in disinfection of alfalfa seeds, Wilson 144 



The morphology and life history of Puccinia malvacearum, Taubenhaus 144 



Disease-resisting potatoes, Taylor 144 



