IV CONTENTS. 



FORESTRY . 



Report of forest circles in Bombay Presidency, 1904-5 241 



Reports on forest administration in Burma, 1904-5 241 



Forestry conditions in Canada, Scheck 242 



How to grow young trees for forest planting, Sterling 242 



Woodlot thinning, Bogue 242 



The nascent forest of the Miscou beach plain, Ganong 242 



Sugar ])ine and western yellow pine in California, Cooper 242 



AVaste in logging southern yellow pine, Peters 243 



Notes on the Benguet pine, Maule 243 



Ornamental and sliade trees, Kennedy 243 



Prolonging the life of telephone poles, Grinnell 243 



Memorandum on mechanical tests of S(ime Indian timbers, F.verett 243 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Plant diseases prevalent in Nebraska during 1905, lleald 244 



Infection experiments with Erysiphe graminis, Reed 244 



A preliminary report on the blast of rice, Metcalf 244 



Diseases of sweet potatoes in Alabama, Wilcox 245 



New bacterial disease of pods of some leguminous plants. Von ( )ven 246 



Apple scab in eastern Washington, Lawrence 246 



Black rot of apples due to Sclerotinia fructigemi, Heald 246 



Pear blight 247 



The ripe rot or mummy disease of guavas, Sheldon 247 



The presence of copper in olive oil, Passerini 247 



Combined treatment of powdery and downy mildew, Hugounenq 247 



Experiments in combating downy mildew of grapes, Passerini 247 



American gooseberry mildew 248 



A disease of cotton wood due to Elfving'm wegalorna, Heald 248 



Peridermium cerebrum and Cronartium quercuimi, Shear 248 



The adherence of copper fungicides, Gastine 248 



Use of dilute solutions of sulphuric acid as a fungicide, Kraemer 249 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY'. 



Federal game protection. A five years' retrospect. Palmer 250 



Directory of officials and organizations concerned with protection of liirds 



and game, 1906, Palmer 250 



The zoological record, Sharp 250 



Meadow mice in relation to agriculture and horticulture, Lantz 250 



Requirements in interstate shipments of nursery stock. Burgess 250 



Report of the entomologist. Van Dine 250 



Report of the entomologists, C. H. and H. T. Fernald 250 



Fifth report of State entomologist and plant pathologist of Virginia, Phillips. 251 



Report of the entomological division, Dewar 251 



Farm practice in the control of field-crop insects, Webster 251 



Proliferation as factor in control of boll weevil, Hinds 251 



Destroying weevils in cowpeas 252 



A locust campaign, Sawer 252 



Locust birds and locust poisons, Lounsbury 252 



Codling moth work in 1904, Ball and Peterson 252 



Codling moth in Yakima Valley, Melander and Jenne 253 



Gypsy and brown-tail moths and their European parasites, Howard 254 



Test of sprays for San Jose scale, Rumsey and Brooks 254 



Checking cottony scale and report of State nursery inspection, Bues 254 



The peach-tree borer, Starnes 254 



The principal insect enemies of the peach, Quaintance 254 



Insects injurious to forests. Western pine-destroying bark beetle, Webb 254 



Insect enemies of forest reproduction, Hopkins 255 



Two insect pests of the elm, Melander 255 



The mosquito, Symons, Coffin, and Gahan 255 



Mosquito control, Quayle 255 



Report on horseflies of Louisiana, with remedies and natural enemies, Hine. . 256 



Natural history of Tabanidee, especially Tabanus quatuornotatus, Lecaillon 256 



