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MISCELLANEOUS. 



Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, 1908 ( U. S. Dcpt. Agr. Year- 

 hook lUOS, i)p. ,s'JJ. i)ls. .;.-,, fi(js. ^'.'M.— The Yearbook for IDOS contains a report 

 by the Secretary on the work of the Department aurinj; the year. 23 special 

 articles abstracteil elsewhere in this issue, and an appendix consisting' of the 

 usual agricultural directory, a review of weather and crop conditions during 

 the year, the principal injurious insects and plant diseases of the year, progress 

 in food and drug inspection and other chemical work, in forestry, and in game 

 protection, soil areas surveyed and mapped, road laws enacted in 1908, and 

 agricultural statistics. 



Annual Report of Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations, 1908 {Alaska 

 Stas. lipt. i;)OS. mi. .sr^).— This contains a re])ort of the chief lines of work car- 

 ried on during the fiscal year ended June .30, lOOS, at the Sitka, Rampart, Fair- 

 banks, Copiier Center, and Kodiak stations, an account of the closing of the 

 Kenai Station, brief notes on the maturing of melons and other vegetables at 

 Hot Springs Farm, and on live stock operations at a ranch at Kodiak, a list of 

 plants collected in Alaska during 190S by C. W. H. Heideman, and reports from 

 the seQd distribution. Meteorological data and accounts of the extensive tests 

 with field and garden crops and of the live stock operations are abstracted else- 

 where in this issue. 



Thirty-first and Thirty-second Annual Reports of Connecticut State Sta- 

 tion, 1907-8 (Coiinccticiit State Sta. Rpt. JD07-S, pt. 12. pp. XXIV). — These 

 pages include the organization list, a report of the board of control, in which 

 are embodied resolutions adopted regarding the life and work of the late W. O. 

 Atwater and E. H. Hoyt, former members of the board, a financial statement for 

 the fiscal years ended September 30, 1907, and September 30, 1908, and a list of 

 corrections and additions to the report. 



Nineteenth and Twentieth Annual Reports of New Hampshire Station, 

 1907-8 (Xciv Hampshire Sta. Rpts. 1907-S, pp. 2.'i6-680+IIl ) .—This contains 

 the organization list; a report of the director for the biennial period ended 

 October 31, 1908; financial statements for the fiscal years ended June 30, 1907, 

 and June 30, 1908 ; departmental reports, the experimental work of which is ab- 

 stracted elsewhere in this issue; brief notes on sheep breeding experiments for 

 early lamb production ; a list of insects received for identification ; reprints 

 of Press Circulars 1-12, entitled alfalfa for New Hampshire, spraying for the 

 brown-tail moth and orchard caterpillars, early lamb production, low grade 

 cotton-seed meal, herd testing, poultry manure, good grass seed, some points 

 about fertilizers, buying and selling a cow on one test, cotton-.seed meal and 

 mixed feed, an outbreak of forest caterpillars, and keeping apples in a cool 

 place ; a list of the publications of the station from 1888 to 1908, and an index 

 to these publications. 



Suitable paper for permanent records, F. P. Veitch ( U. S. Dept. Agr. Year- 

 book 1908, pp. 261-266). — This article, which supplements others previously 

 noted (B. S. R., 20, p. 875; 21, p. 295), enumerates the factors that determine 

 the durability of papers, describes the methods of determining the quality, 

 and discusses the proper care of important publications and records. 



Index for Bulletins 69-83 of the North Dakota Station (XortJi Dakota Sta. 

 Index to Bills. 69-83, pp. 3-11).— In addition to tlie index for liulletins G9-83, 

 inclusive, this contains lists of these bulletins and of the pi-ess bulletins and 

 special bulletins published during the same period. 



