496 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Nineteenth Annual Report of North Dakota Station (\orth Dakota Sta. 

 lipt. 190S, pt. J, pp. 59). — This contains the ori^iinization list, a brief report by 

 the director, departmental reports, of which portions of that of the chemist and 

 of that of the botanist are noted on pages 414, 415, and 43G of this issue, and a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908. 



Annual Report of Virginia Station, 1908 {Virginia Sta. Rpt. 1908, pp. 

 loO). — This contains the organization list, a report of the director discu.ssing 

 the finances, work, publications, and changes in personnel of the station, a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended .June .30, 1908, departmental reports, 

 the experimental work which is noted elsewhere in this issue, and numerous 

 si)ecial articles abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Report of the Bureau of Agriculture for the fi.scal year ending June 30, 

 1908, G. PI Nesom {Philippine Agr. Rev. [English Ed.l, 2 {1909), No. 1, pp. 

 3-67, pis. 7). — An account of the work and publications of the Philippine Board 

 of Agriculture for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908. 



Report on the work of the Imperial Institute 1906 and 1907, W. R. 

 DuNSTAN {Colon. Rpts., Ann. [Gt. Brit.], No. o8'i, pp. 76). — In this report brief 

 notes are given on the results of the tests under way of cotton, fiber plants, 

 rubber, timber, oils and oil seeds, coffee, tea, coco, and other foodstuffs, tanning 

 materials, dyestuffs, resins, gums, drugs, poisonous plants, animal products, and 

 miscellaneous materials. 



Development of agricultural experimentation by the Imperial Free Eco- 

 nomic Society {Zap. Novo-Aleksandri. Inst. t<c1sk. Khoz. i Lijcsor., 19 {1908), 

 No. 3, pp. 123-150). — The development of agricultural experimentation by the 

 Imperial Free Economic Society, under the direction of D. I. Mendelyeeva, is 

 traced from the time of the first experiments. 



The report of the National Conservation Commission and a chronological 

 history of the conservation movement (Xal. Coiiserr. Com. Bill. -'/. itp. 52).— 

 This contains the report of the National Conservation Conmiission, a supple- 

 mentary report by the .Joint Conservation Conference, a report of the North 

 American Conservation Conference, the text of the invitation issued for a world 

 conservation conference, and a summary of data as to the progress and develop- 

 ment of the conservation movement. 



Encyclopedia of Agriculture {Edinburgh and London, 1909, vol. //, pp. 638, 

 2j1s. 37). — This is the fourth volume of the general encyclopedia of agriculture. 

 It contains a calendar of farm operations, tables of weights and measures, 

 analyses of feeding stuffs and fertilizers, and other useful data, the text of the 

 more important statutes, orders, etc.. relating to agriculture, colored anatomical 

 plates of domestic animals, and an index to the entire encyclopedia. 



Accessions to the Department Library, January-March, 1909 {L. S. Ucpt. 

 Agr., Lihrary Bill. 77, pp. 81), 



