CONTENTS. 



Page. 



The strength of South Australian timbers, Cliapman 47 



Forest planting in western Kansas, Kellogg 48 



Forest and reforestation in the Valley of the Ubaye (France), Vincent 48 



Reforestation in the mountains without nurseries, Desconibes and Devaux . 48 



Forest finance, Sc-henck 48 



Report of Commission of Incpiiry, Tax Lands and Forestry 48 



Taxation of forest lands and efficiency of fire laws in New Hampshire, Foster. 48 



Annual report of the woods and forests department, 1907, Broun 49 



French system of turpentming, Brower 49 ' 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Plant physiology and pathology, McCallum 49 



Plant pathology. Kirk and Cockayne 50 



Notes on some fungus diseases of i)lants, Liistner 50 



Some notes on nonparasitic diseases in the summer of 1907, Graebner 50 



Injuries to plants due to hail and frost, INIassee 50 



Infection experiments with Eri/siphe cichoraceurum, Reed 50 



The effect of Ustilago mai/dis on Zea mays tunicata, Chifiiot .-... 51 



Black root disease of cotton in Georgia and its control, Lewis 51 



Potato scab and its eradication, Henderson 51 



A radish disease. Von Tubeuf 51 



8ome results of recent investigations on the diseases of sugar beets, IStormer.. 52 



The blossom bla.<:t or blight of cranberries. Shear 52 



Investigations on black rot of grapes, Soursac 52 



The effect of various fungicides on the flowers of grapes, Molz 52 



Experiments in combating the downy mildew of the grape, Li'i>tner 53 



Is arsenical spraying killing our fruit trees? Ball 53 



A note on one of the cocf)nut diseases. Hart 53 



The oak mildew, Fischer 53 



Some wood-destroying fungi, Bittmann 53 



Some obscure gall diseases, Laubert 53 



Combating plant diseases, Voges 54 



The use of carbolineum in combating apple and i)ear scat), 1 Iul)er 54 



Carbolineum as a fungicide, Schander 54 



Tenax, a fungicide for combating Peronosjxjra 54 



A new product for use in the control of fungus diseases, Buisine 54 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



The Nevada mouse plague of 1907-S, Piper 54 



Twenty-first meeting of the American Association of Economic Entomologists. 55 



[Report of the biologist for 1907], Smith 56 



Note on food habit of Liotropis contam inatits, Osborn 56 



Notes on tF^canthus, Houghton 56 



The Hessian fly in Georgia, Worsham and Lewis 56 



What can be done in destroying the boll weevil during the winter. Hunter 57 



The rose slugs, Chittenden 57 



Experiments with repellents against the corn root-aphis, 1905 and 1906, Forbes. 57 



Habits and behavior of the cornfield ant, Lni^ius ntger ameriranus, Forbes 58 



The wheat strawworm {Itioaoma gravde), Webster and Reeves 59 



Scale insects of the orchards of Missouri, Taylor 60 



Report on experiments for San Jose scale, 1907-8, Worsham and Chase 60 



The San Jose scale and lime-sulphur wash. Hinds 61 



The calyx cup must be filled, Melander 61 



Economic loss to the United States through insects that carry disease, Howard. 61 



Tlie typhoid fly or house Hy, Howard 62 



House fleas, Howard , 62 



Sixth annual report of the State entomologist of Montana, Cooley 62 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Human foods, Snyder 63 



Packing-house chemistry, Schmidt 63 



Adulteration of foods, agricultural products, and drugs, Courcelle and Ricard. 63 



Biocfiemistry, Rohmann 63 



Practical physiological chemistry, Hawk 63 



