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A review of recent investigations on the mineral nutrition of fungi, Dox 426 



The carbon nutrition of plants, Ravin 426 



Formation of anthocyanin in flowers of Cobaea scandens, Rose 427 



Physico-chemical properties of vegetable saps, II, Harris and Gortner 427 



A review of Willstiitter 's researches on chlorophyll, West 427 



Study of the constitution of plastids, Buscalioni 427 



Reply to Kostytschew's articles on respiration of wheat seedlings, Zaleski 427 



The action of anodic and cathodic solutions on germination, Micheels 427 



The application of electricity to plant production, Priestley 428 



FIELD CROPS. 



Irrigation and manuring studies, Harris 428 



Minor dry-land crops at the Nephi Experiment Farm, Cardon 429 



The Clermont County experiment farm 430 



The Miami County experiment farm 430 



The Paulding County experiment farm 430 



Report on grass-seed mixtures, 1907-1913, Findlay 430 



Fodder grasses of Java, III-IX, Backer 431 



The chemical composition of South African maize and other cereals, Juritz 431 



Suppressing the inflorescence and the sugar content of cane and maize, Decock. 431 



Composition of maize at various stages of its growth, Jones, jr., and Huston. . . 431 



Corn culture, Kjmbrough 432 



Corn growing in Washington, Severance 432 



On cotton cultivation, Kimbrough and DeLoach 432 



The feeding of cotton, ^\^lite 433 



A new system of cotton culture and its application, Cook 433 



The classification and grading of cotton, Earle and Dean 433 



HeUanthus, Ran 433 



A rapidly growing new forage plant, Denaiffe and Colle 434 



Oats for New York, Love 434 



Some varieties and strains of oats in South Dakota, Hume and Champlin 435 



Potato growing in Washington, Morris, Hall, and Yothers 435 



Effects of defoliation and application of nitrates on the sugar beet, Headden. . 435 



Sweet potatoes: Culture, storing, and studies in fertilizing, Stuckey 436 



Tobacco seed beds, Olson 437 



Wheat investigation 438 



The culture of winter wheat in the E^astern United States, Leigh ty 438 



The quality of clover and vetch seed in Maryland markets in 1913, Smith 438 



"Weeds, Coo 438 



How to rid our farms of weeds, Stone 438 



HORTICULTURE. 



Vegetable gardening, Stuckey 438 



Truck farming, Ness 439 



Regional distribution of fruits and factors controlling it, Cunningham 439 



South American frtdt production, present and prospective, Wight 439 



Orchard management 439 



Composition oi lime-sulphur solutions, Whittier and Thompson 439 



A new spray rig, Strahan 439 



Some investigations in grafting, Booth 440 



Characteristics of one hvmdred seedlings of the Northern Spy apple, Macoun. . 440 



Effect of pollen on the size and number of seeds. Crow 440 



Some peculiarities of native Georgia apples, McHatton 440 



Factors which determine color and size of peaches, Blake 440 



Effect of pollination on the fruit of Diospyros kaki, Hume 440 



Prune growing in southwestern Washington, Morris 441 



Orchard notes, Thompson 441 



Small fruits for Colorado, Sandsten 441 



State bog report, Franklin 441 



The "little bogs" at Amherst, Morse 441 



Raspberry breeding, Wellington 442 



Strawberries under irrigation in south Texas, Binford 442 



Sterility in the grape, Dorsey 442 



The fertilizing action of sulphur on the vine, Chauzit 442 



How sulphur stimulates plant growth, De Castella 443 



