194 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Cotton: Its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of 

 the cotton world, C. W. Bukkett and C. H. Poe CNetv YorJc: Douhlcday, Page 

 d- Co., 1906, pp. XII + 331, pis. 58, figs. 4). — A popular discussion of the subject 

 of cotton, in all its economic aspects, from the preparation of the land to the 

 final disposition of manufactured cotton fabrics. The authors point out the 

 possibilities of the South to provide the world's chief markets not only with 

 raw cotton, but with manufactured cotton goods and cotton-seed by-products. 

 The value and importance of the cotton crop to the future agricultural and 

 economic development of the South is especially emphasized. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Annual Report of Nevada Station, 1905 (Nevada Sta. Rpt. 1905, pp. 45). — 

 This contains reports of the director and heads of depai-tments. The director 

 discusses reclamation and irrigation work in Nevada, farmers' Institutes, etc., 

 and gives a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1905. The 

 departmental reports contain notes on forage plants, orchard, and small fruits ; 

 spraying for the San Jose scale ; meteorological conditions ; experiments with 

 field crops, etc. 



Seventeenth Annual Report of South Carolina Station, 1904 {South Caro- 

 lina »S7fl. Rpt. I'.iii'i. pp. 26). — This contains the organization list of the station, a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904, and reports of the 

 vice-director and members of the station staff on the different lines of work 

 during the year. The report of the chemist contains averages of analyses of 

 different classes of fertilizers from 1891 to 1904. 



Eighteenth Annual Report of Tennessee Station, 1905 (Tennessee Sta. Rpt. 

 1905, pp. 47-63). — This contains the organization list of the station, reports of 

 the director and members of the station staff, and a financial statement for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1905. A preliminary note on clover diseases in Ten- 

 nessee has been abstracted from another source (E. S. R., 17, p. 567). 



Experiment Station Work, XXXV ( ['. .S'. Dept. Agr., Formers' Bui. 259, pp. 

 32, figs. 3). — This number contains articles on the following subjects: Use of 

 commercial fertilizers, weight of lime per bushel, spreading lime, soil steriliza- 

 tion, weights per bushel of seeds, disease resistant crops, corn billbugs and root- 

 louse, asparagus rust and its control, alfalfa meal as a feeding stuff, singed 

 cacti as forage, cattle feeding in the South, milk fever, nail wounds in horses' 

 feet, and use of a cheap canning outfit. 



Press Bulletins Nos. 125-151 (Kansas 8ta. Bill. 136, pp. 143-206, fig. 1).— 

 Reprints of press liulletins on the following subjects : Meadow fescue, corn en- 

 silage for steers, rabies or hydrophobia, preventive work against the Hessian 

 fly, Bromus inerniis, poison for prairie dogs and other rodents, warbles or grubs 

 in cattle, the common garden mole, grasshopper poisons, baby beef, ringbone 

 and spavin, contagious abortion in cattle, some troubles of swine, testing seed 

 corn for vitality, garget (congestion of the udder), Kansas Experiment Station 

 egg-laying contests, swine feeding test with sorghum-seed meal, Kafir-corn meal, 

 soy-bean meal, and corn meal, summer pruning, preparing fruits for exhibition, 

 the garden webworm, a shade-tree pest (the fall webworm), testing winter 

 wheat varieties for western Kansas, a troublesome parasite of the horse, swine 

 feeding tests (Armour's deodorized meat meal and alfalfa hay as supplemen- 

 tary feeds to corn), the San Jose scale in Kansas, and baby beef production with 

 western feeds. 



Bulletins of Alabama College Station ( Alalia ma College f^ta. Index to Vol. 

 XII, Bids. 127-129, and Ann. Rpt. 1904, PP- 105-112; Vol. XIII. Bills. 130-134, 

 and Ann. Rpt, 1905, pp. 205-214). 



