MISCELLANEOUS. 391 



Local weather signs, J. W. Smith {Agr. Col. Ext. Bui. [Ohio State Univ.]. 

 2 {Iii(>7). yo. 9. pp. 11-13). — The following subjects are considered: Clouds, 

 barometer chanses, humidity, sun spots aud the weather, and the moon antl the 

 weatlior. 



Mosquitoes, II. Oshokn {Agr. Vol. Ext. Bui. [Ohio iitatc Unic], J {1907), 

 No. 10, pp. -^-12, figs. 8). — An account of where mosquitoes lay eggs, what changes 

 take place before they can fly, how the number may be diminished, and how 

 malaria may be spread' by mosquitoes. 



Drainage, A. G. McCall {Agr. Col. Ext. Bui. [Ohio State Lnii;.], 3 {1907), 

 Xo. 1, pp. .'i-lO, figs. 9). — An elementary lesson in drainage, with illustrations to 

 suggest experiments in drainage. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twentieth. Annual Report of Maryland Station, 1907 {Maryland Sta. Rpt. 

 1907, pp. XX-\-318). — This contains the organization list, a report by the 

 director on the work and expenditures of the station, a financial statement for 

 tlie fiscal year ended .June 30, 1!)07, and reprints of Bulletins 110-118. 



Thirteenth Annual Report of Montana Station, 1906 {Montana Sta. Rpt. 

 1906, pp. 99-lS^). — This contains the organization list and financial statement 

 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, a report of the director on the general 

 work of the station during the year, lists of station publications, donations, 

 loans, and exchanges, and departmental reports, the experimental work of which 

 is noted elsewhere in this issue. 



Seventeenth Annual Report of New Mexico Station, 1906 {New Mexico Sta. 

 lipt. 1906. pp. 66). — Tills includ<'s tlie t)rganization list, a report of the director 

 on the worlv and publications of the station, a list of station publications avail- 

 able for distribution, departmental reports on the various lines of station work 

 conducted during the year, and a financial statement for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1900. Reports of the work in horticulture, irrigation, -and animal 

 husbandry are noted elsewhere in this issue. 



Sixteenth Annual Report of Oklahoma Station, 1907 {Oklahoma Sta. 

 Rpt. 19(17. pp. 6-'i). — This contains a report of the director, a list of station pub- 

 lications available for distribution, a summary of the press bulletins issued dur- 

 ing the year, meteorological observations noted elsewhere in this issue, and a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1907. The press bulletins 

 are in part a repetition of matter published in the regular bulletins of the 

 station. Those not abstracted elsewhere in this issue treat of Oklahoma wheat 

 experiments, wheat pasture experiments, dairy work at the college and station, 

 and summer forage crops. 



Experiment Station Work, XLII {U. S. Dept. Agr.. Farmers' Bui. 305, 

 ])l). 3.i). — This mmibcr contains articles on the following subjects: Extension of 

 rice culture, growing seed potatoes under mulch, manure as a sunnuer mulch in 

 forcing houses, renewal of old orchards, injury by Bordeaux mixture, gluten 

 flours and similar foods, laxative properties of wheat bran, emmer as a feeding 

 stuff, roots for farm animals, cabbage as stock feed, pasturing hogs, cull beans 

 as a feed for hogs, and healthy poultry. 



Accessions to the Department Library, April-June, 1907 ( U. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Library Bui. 6.'/, pp. 75). 



Annals of the royal agricultural high school of Portici {Ann. R. Scuola 

 Sup. Agr. Portici. 2. scr.. 6 (1906). pp. .',02, pis. 9, figs. .',9. map i).— The first 

 series of these annals cover the period 1875 to 1898. The second series brings 



