CONTENTS, V 



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Fungus diseases of vegetables, Eastham and Howitt 342 



Report, of assistant in botany, Winters 342 



[Notes on diseases of cabbage, lettuce, roselle, rose, and water oak J, Fawcett. . 342 



Report of assistant plant physiologist, Floyd 343 



Winter stage of Sdcrotinia fructigena, Dandeno 343 



Citrous diseases, Fawcett 343 



A disease of the cacao. Griffon and Maublanc 343 



Tea root diseases, Fetch 343 



Physiological diseases of the vine, Bioletti 344 



The coulure of the vine, Bioletti 344 



The black rot of the grape and its control. Second report, Wilson and Roddick . 344 



Lathnva clandestina, a parasite of the vine. Col 345 



Carnation root knot, Garman 345 



Mycorrhizse on Michigan trees, Duthie and Matthews 345 



Mycorrhiza-producing Basidiomycetes, Pennington 345 



Diseases of chestnuts in the United States and Europe, Henry 345 



The oak mildew. Griffon and Maublanc 346 



A disease of Zizyphtis ftacZei, Hariot and Patouillard 346 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



The brown rat in the United States, Lantz 346 



Key to animals on which wolf and coyote bounties are often paid, Bailey 347 



The blue foxes of the Pribilof Islands, Judge 347 



Proceedings of twenty-first meeting of American Economic Entomologists 347 



Report of the entomologist, Berger 349 



Report of the entomologist and botanist, 1907-8, Fletcher 349 



[Report of] the professor of entomology and zoology, Bethune 350 



The gipsy and brown-tail moths, Stuart 350 



The life history of the Argentine ant, Newell "■ 350 



On certain seed-infesting chalcis flies, Crosby 351 



Fighting insect pests and diseases of orchard, field, and garden crops, Price 351 



Insects affecting vegetables, Bethune 352 



The cranberry situation in Wisconsin as regards insect attack, Franklin 352 



Summary of annual report of field entomologist, Weldon 352 



A])ple spraying in 1908, Gossard 352 



Coiitrol of brown ant and mealy bug in pineapple plantations. Tower 353 



The fight against phylloxera in Algiers, Trabut 353 



[Tests of scale remedies and summer sprays], Taft and Wilken 353 



Lime-sulphur washes, Harcourt 353 



Fumigation with cyanid of potassium, Hutt and Hunt 354 



Fumigation investigations in California, Woglum : 354 



Parasitic fungi of the white fly, Fawcett 356 



Insect pests of cacao, Ballou 356 



Cryptorhynchus lapathi, Vanhoudenhove 356 



Occurrence of larvae of Protocalliphora chrysoirhcea in bird nests. Miller 356 



Bee keeping in Massachusetts, Gates 357 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Wheat and flour testing, Harcourt 357 



Experiments with flours for milk biscuits made with baking powder, Watson. . 358 



Milling and baking tests, Saunders 358 



Poulard wheat and its value for bread making, Lolli 359 



Difference in flour grades and the cause. Teller 359 



Sugar in white flour dough and diastasic value of white flour, von Liebig 359 



A new tvpe of peasant bread, Gibelli and Griiner 359 



Table sirups, McGill 359 



The occurrence of oidium fungi on preserved fruits, Kiihl 3()0 



Cashew nuts as a substitute for walnuts or almonds, Theopold 360 



Baking powders, McGill 360 



Ground cloves, McGill 361 



Mustard, McGill 361 



Studies'on cider and perry. I , Sulpnite preservatives, Durham 361 



Analytical studies of wine from the province of Caltanissetta, Carpentieri 361 



Roman wine. Vintage of 1 907, Maggiacomo and Corso 361 



Boric acid in genuine Sicilian wines, Azzarello : . 361 



The dead meat trade 361 



