CONTENTS. V 



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The control of the loose smuts of barley and wheat, Stormer et al 246 



Grain smuts and their control, Broz 246 



The leaf spot of oats, Tacke 246 



Flower infection with cotton boll rots, Edgerton 246 



Sderotinia panads n. ep. the cause of a root rot of ginseng, Rankin 247 



Infection experiments with potato fungi, Wollenweber and Schlumberger 247 



The natural distribution of Fusaria on the potato plant, Wollenweber 247 



Leaf roll of potatoes, Appel and Schlumberger 247 



Bacterial rot of potato, Appel 248 



Investigations with potato scab, Bernhard 248 



Rice blight, Hewitt 248 



The beet nematode, Fulmek 248 



Further notes on the sooty mold of tobacco, Inglese 248 



Some means for the control of Thielavia on tobacco, Aielli-Donnarmnma 249 



Diseases of cabbage and related crops and their control, Harter 249 



Tomato leaf rust 249 



The enzymatic activity of some fruit fungi, Bruschi 249 



Gummosis, Wolf 249 



Apple tree antlu-acnose, Jackson 249 



The rasi)berry cane blight and how to control it, O'Gara 250 



Remedy for court nou6 250 



Combating leaf spot of grape {Pseudopeziza tracheiphila), Bretschneider 250 



The mildew fungi and protection therefrom, Broz 250 



Experiments on the prevention of olive bacteriosis, Bellini 251 



Gloeosporiose of the Japanese persimmon, Ito 251 



The cause of mottled leaf, Snowden 251 



The bud rot of the cocoiuit in Ceylon, Patouillard 251 



A new disease of lily of the valley, Politis 252 



Loranthns spurocarpus parasitic on Dractena, Arena 252 



The mycoplasm theory, Eriksson 252 



Notes on some western Uredineie which attack forest trees, Iledgcock 252 



The chestnut bark disease, Giddings 252 



The progi-css of the fight against the chestnut blight 252 



The wintering and combating of the oak mildew, Neger 253 



Preliminary notes on three rots of Juniper, Iledgcock and Long 253 



The nature of witches' brooms on Piniis sylvestris, Zach and von Tiibeuf 253 



The blister rust of white pine, Selby 253 



A disease of eucalyptus, Averna-Saccd 253 



A new paint-destroying fungus, Massee 253 



Experiments with lime-sulpliur against some fungus fliseases, Savastano 253 



Notes on the preparation of copper fungicides, Chappaz 254 



The inllueuce of tobacco smoke on plants, Molisch 254 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



The fruit-eating habits of the sage thrasher in the Yakima Valley, Kennedy. . . 254 



The English sparrow as a pest, Dearborn 254 



Starling {Sturnus vulgaris) in Chester County, Pa., Jackson 254 



State of Washington laws relating to fish, oysters, and game, 1911 254 



Methods in insect photogi-aphy, O' Kane 255 



Some recent new importations, Marlatt 255 



The insect enemies of trees and herljaceous plants in Uruguay, Bouyat 255 



Some apple insects of Connecticut, Lamson 255 



What is the matter with the elms in Illinois? Forbes 255 



The cotton stainer (Dysdercus sutw'ellus), Hunter 256 



Observations on the life history of Enchenopa binolata, Matausch 256 



Studies on a new species of Toxoptera, Phillips and Davis 256 



The life history of the alder blight aphis, Pergande 257 



Flour mill fumigation, Goodwin 258 



Larvae of a saturniid moth used as food by California Indians, Aldrich 258 



Observations on the relations of ants and lyc^nid caterpillars, Newcomer 258 



Thhd report of director of fruit fly control, Giffard 259 



On the rearing of a Dennatobia hominis, Busck 259 



The horse botflies in Argentina, Lahille 259 



The genera Hypera and Phytonomus north of Mexico, Titiis 259 



A revision of the genus Lasconotus, Kraus 259 



The sugar cane beetle in Mauritius 259 



