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Apparent loss of nitrogen from lime nitrogen, Riecke 1125 



Calcium cyanamid 1125 



The problem of potash salts in Italy, Ceruti 1125 



Phosphate jnining in Tennessee, Rnhm 112(i 



Limestones available for fertilizers, Van Horn 1 1 2(5 



Tomato refuse, Harcourt 1 1 28 



Composition of different kinds of sugar factory clarification refuse, Gabel 112(5 



Ash constituents of [sugar beets and] beet pulp, Gamble 1 126 



Dried meat, IVIarsais 1 1 2(j 



The utilization of abattoir by-products at Islington 1 12(> 



Connuercial fertilizers, Burd 1127 



Insjiei-tion and analyses of commercial fertilizers. Hand et al 1127 



Inspection of commercial fertilizers, Waters 1127 



Inspection of commercial fertilizers, Trowbridge 1127 



The inspection of commercial fertilizers in 1907, Morse and Curry 1127 



The calculation of equivalent manurial values, Phillips ' 1 127 



AGRICULTURAL BOTANY. 



Heredity and environic forces, MacDougal 1127 



Mutation and traumatisms, Blaringhem 1128 



Influence of form of carbon upon morphology of Penicillium cultures, Thom. . 1128 



Hydrocyanic acid and nitrogen assimilation, Ravenna and Peli 1128 



Effect of exposing germ cells to the rays of radium, Gager 112S 



Effects of radium rays on mitoses, Gager 11 28 



The toxic action of certain organic plant constituents, Schreiner and Reed . . . 1129 



The antitoxic action of magnesium and potassium, Osterhout 1129 



Effect of fungicides upon assimilation of carbon dioxid by green leaves, Amos. 1129 



Experiments on the effect of flue dust on soils and plants, Haselhoff 1130 



FIELD CROPS. 



Experimental work in field husbandry, Zavitz 1130 



[Field crops] , Fox 1133 



Experiments with cotton and corn in 1906, Duggar and Richeson 1133 



Experiments with cotton and oats in 1907, Stevens 1134 



Report of the chemical division, Withers 1134 



Range conditions, Thornber 1134 



Cultivation of small grains, Montgomery 1135 



Alfalfa or lucern, Zavitz 1135 



Alfalfa breeding: Materials and methods, Roberts and Freeman 1136 



Buckwheat crops of the United States, 1866-1906, Clark 1136 



Clover farming on tRe sandy jack-pine lands of the North, Smith 1136 



Seed corn for the season of 1908, Williams 1137 



Coo])erative corn work for 1908, Williams and Goddard 1 137 



[Experiments with cotton], Ward 1137 



The wild an<l cultivated cotton plants of the world, AVatt 1 137 



Shrinkage of hay in the stack, Wilson 1137 



Milo as a dry-land grain crop, Ball and Leidigh 1 137 



Fertilizer experiments with calcium nitrate for potatoes, Stutzer 1138 



Fertilizers for potatoes, Brooks 1 138 



Potato crops of the United States, 1 866-1906, Clark 1 1 38 



Rye crops of the United States, 1866-1906, Clark 1 138 



Sorgl mm for silage and forage, Scott 11 38 



The is( )lation of mother beets, Frolich 1 1 38 



Fertilizers for sugar beets, Harcourt 1138 



Progress in the culture of sugar beets and sugar-beet seed, Briem 1 138 



Russia's wheat trade, Rubinow : 1 138 



Russian wheat and wheat flour in Euro])ean markets, Rubinow 1139 



Theuscof the fanning mill for selecting seed wheat and seed oats, Montgomery. 1139 



Method of separating buckhorn from red clover and alfalfa seeds, Shaw 1140 



Troublesome weeds of the year, McCready 1140 



Practical farming, Massey 1140 



HORTICULTURE. 



[Report of] the professor of lK)rticulture, Hutt 1140 



Mushroom and truffle culture, Blanchon 1141 



