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[Fertilizer tests on meadows], Bredemann 835 



Cooperative experiments with alfalfa, Miller and Hutchison 835 



Alfalfa seed production, Thatcher 836 



The development of the grain of barley, Brenchley 836 



[Clover tests in Denmark], Lindhard. '. . . . 836 



Increasing the yield of a strain of Reid yellow dent, Hall 836 



Mendelian inheritance in cotton hybrids, McLendon 837 



Fertilizer tests of oats, Gaul 837 



Influence of different amounts of water on sugar beets, Herke 837 



The composition of sugar beets of different sizes, Herke 838 



Soaking beet seed, Kock 838 



The germination of hulled timothy seed, Kajanus 838 



Tobacco: Breeding cigar filler in Ohio, Selby and Houser 838 



The influence of superphosphates on the germination of wheat, Ewart 840 



Wheat experiments, season 1911, Ross et al 840 



Seed laboratory report for 1910 and 1911, Oswald 840 



I Seed analyses and experiment station results], Stevbler 841 



Period of germinability of the seed of Cuscuta epilinum, Herzog 841 



HORTICULTUKE. 



Report (jf the horticulturist, Kinman 841 



Report of experimental fields in South Holland for 1911, Claassen et al 842 



Note on the dipping or warm bath method of forcing plants, Parkinson 842 



The kitchen garden, Pichenaud 842 



The production of mushrooms in quarries by a new process, Boyer 842 



Effect of manganese on pineapple plants and the ripening, Wilcox and Kelley . 842 



The thirty years' record of a grass orchard, Hooper 843 



An experiment in breeding apples, Hedrick and Wellington 843 



Some new apples from known parents, Hall 844 



Apples of Missouri, Chenoweth 844 



Artificial cross-fertilization of the mango, Brooks 844 



Report of the assistant horticulturist, McClelland 844 



Fertilizers for carnations, Lumsden 844 



Spraying calendar for 1912, Beattie and Melander 845 



Rules and regulations for carrying out the Plant Quarantine Act 845 



FORESTRY. 



The profession of forestry, Graves 845 



Important happenings in forestry, hunting, and fishing for 1911, Weber 845 



Forestry and forest resoiu-ces in New York, Gay lord 845 



Results of the Saxony state forest administration in 1911 845 



On the influence of removing forest litter, Schwappach 845 



The woodsman's handbook, Graves and Ziegler 846 



The Bradlev bibliography, II. — Dendrology, Part II, Rehder , 846 



Silvical leaflets 346 



Mechanical properties of redwood, Heim 846 



The absorption of creosote by the cell walls of wood, Teesdale 846 



Condition of chestnut poles after 5 and 8 years' service, W^inslow 846 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Report of the pathologist, Fawcett 847 



New diseases of cultivated plants, Puttemans 848 



Plant diseases, 1909-10, Osterwalder and Schneider-Orelli 848 



The influence of nutrition and weather upon plant diseases, Hiltner 848 



The action of some acid salts upon Aspergillus niger, Kiesel 848 



Contribution to the study of the sooty molds, Arnaud 848 



Studies in Chinese fungi, Miyake 848 



A review of grain diseases, 1911, Riehm 848 



Control of loose smut of barley and wheat, Schander 848 



A rust-resistant hybrid wheat, Schribaux 849 



Dry spot of oats, Zimmermann 849 



Studies on canker in clover, Hiltner and Gentner 849 



Prevalence of disease among varieties of sugar cane, Harrison and Stockdale. . 849 



Canker or rot of Solanaceaj : Eggplant, peppers, and tomato, Voglino 849 



