CONTENTS. TIT 



FIELD CROPS. 



Page. 



Roport of the asricultnrist, Brooks. Fiiltou, aucl Gasliill 226 



The Wobiini field experiineuts. liKi.3-6, Voelcker 226 



Diversitied fanning under the iilantation system, Brodie and McCIelland__ 228 



A siiecessful dairy farm. Dodge 229 



Planning a cropping system. Spillman 229 



The application of vegetative pro])agation to legmiiinous forage plants, 



Westgate and Ollverl ' 229 



Some grasses and for.-ige plants for the gulf coast region, Tracy 2.30 



Notes on agave and furcra'a in India, Drummond and Prain — 230 



Alfalfa culture in (Jrand Isle County, .Jones and Edson 230 



Valuation of brewing barley with reference to nitrogen content, Wahl 230 



Influence of distance between plants on fodder beets, Frolich 231 



Corn-breeding work at the experiment stations, Schulte 231 



Cotton production, 1906 ^31 



Tlie history of the cowpea and its introduction into America, Wight 231 



The panicle as a factor in breeding oats, Fruwirth -o2 



Pis II in iiniritiiiiinn. Becker 232 



Culture tests under humid conditions of ^olauinii cotntiiersoiii, Vincey — 2.32 



Methods of reducing the cost of producing beet sugar, Towuseud 233 



New tobacco varieties, Shamel ! 233 



Effect of climatic conditions on composition of durum wheat, Le Clerc__ 234 



HORTICULTURE. 



Tests of the vitality of vegetable seeds, Jenkins "35 



The use of anesthetics in the forcing of plants, Stuart 235 



Promising new fruits, Taylor 23(5 



An orchard study of the Bitter Root Valley, P^islier 2.36 



Preliminary notes on the seedling a])ples of Maine, Munson 237 



The winterkilling of peach buds. Chandler 2.37 



Experiment station work with peaches. Smith 237 



New citrus and i)ineapi)le productions of the Department, Webber 2.3S 



Pineapple growing in .Tamaica. Lucas ^ y 238 



Tlie olive, Degrully -__ 238 



Olives and olive oil. Butnian 238 



The fermentation of tea, II, Mann 238 



Home-grown tea, Mitcliell 240 



The height at which flower shoots form on grapevines, Hugues 240 



The book of the chrysanthemum, Follwell ; 240 



Report of the horticulturist, Waugh 241 



FORESTRY. 



Report of the forester, Ilawes 241 



Forest administration in Coorg for 1905-(;, McCartliy 242 



National forests and the lumber supply. Sherrard 242 



Lumber and timl)er products, Whelchel and Gannett 242 



Sawmill statistics 243 



Seasoning of tele]ihone and telegraph poles, Grinnell . 2-13 



Brush and tank ]»ole treatments. Crawford 243 



Varieties of chestnuts. P.aglioni 2-14 



White oak in the southern Ai)palachians, Greeley and Ashe 244 



Forest planting leaflet (White oak) 244 



The Duke's osier-bed by the River Thames, Ramaiengar 244 



Evergreens for South Dakota, Hansen 244 



Quinin, camjthor, and ipecac, Rosa 245 



Model shade ti'ee work 245 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Report of the botanist. Stone and Monahan 245 



The occurrence of plant diseases in Vermont in J90(i, Jones and (}iddings_ 246 



Diseases and injuries to econonnc i>lants in 1904, Yachevski 247 



Can ithosphates cause cbloi-osisV Takeuchi 247 



Millet snnit (I'xtihKjo paiiiri inilidcci) and its control, Trzhebinski 247 



The diseases of sugar beets in relation to their culture, Ilollrung 247 



