II CONTENTS. 



METEOROLOGY. 



Page. 



Monthly Weather Review, Vol. XXVI, Nos. 1-3 124 



Arizona weather and climate, E. M. Boggs and N. H. Barnes 124 



Meteorological observations at Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, 



1895, R. C. Kedzie 124 



Forecasts of frosts, R. C. Kedzie 125 



Monthly reports of the River and Flood Service, W. L. Moore and P. Morrill. 125 

 Wrecks and casualties on the Great Lakes during 1895, 1896, and 1897, W. L. 



Moore and N. B. Conger 125 



WATER — SOILS. 



Drinking waters, E. F. Ladd 129 



The Beeville Station: Soils, climate, water supply, and irrigation equipment, 



J. H. Connelland S. A. McHenry 125 



Investigations on the influence of the physical properties of soils on the growth 



of crops, E. Wollny 128 



Relative sensitiveness of plants to acidity in soils, \V. Maxwell 128 



Soil humus, E. F. Ladd 129 



The objects and methods of soil analysis, E. W. Hilgard 129 



FERTILIZERS. 



The fertilizer industry, J. Hyde and G. K. Holmes 130 



Investigations on manure at Lauchstadt, 1896-97, M. Maercker aud W. 



Schneidewind 132 



On the losses of ammonia which take place in the preparation of barnyard 



manure, P. P. Dehorain 133 



Potash: Its commercial and agricultural relations and a chemical method for 



its accurate estimation in soil, A. T. Neale, W. H. Bishop, and C. L. Penny.. 134 



Analyses of licensed commercial fertilizers, F. W. Woll 136 



Composition of commercial fertilizers, H. B. McDonnell et al 136 



Commercial fertilizers, H. A. Huston aud W. J. Jones, jr 136 



Commercial fertilizers, B. H. Hite 136 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers, B. W. Kilgore 136 



Fertilizers, J. H. Stewart and B. H. Hite 136 



FIELD CROPS. 



Some experiments in corn raising, C. D. Smith 136 



Fertilizer, culture, and variety experiments on corn, R. J. Redding 138 



Fertilizer, culture, and variety experiments on cotton, R. J. Redding 139 



Hops, R. H. McDowell - 147 



The effect of various potash salts on the composition and yield of potatoes^ 



T. Pfeiffer, E. Franke, O. Lemmermann, and H. Schillbach 140 



Experiments with wheat, C. C. Georgeson, F. C. Burtis, and D. H. Otis 142 



The sugar beet in Illinois, P. G. Holden and C, G. Hopkins 142 



The sugar beet in Indiana, H. A. Huston and J. M. Barrett 143 



,Sugar-beet investigations, J. L. Stone et al 143 



The composition and production of sugar beets, L. L. Van Slyke, W. H. 



Jordan, and G. W. Churchill 145 



Sugar beets iu South Dakota, J. H. Shepard 145 



Utah sugar beets, 1897, J. A. Widtsoe 146 



Field experiments, C. D. Smith 146 



Cattle ranges of the Southwest: A history of the exhaustion of the pastur- 

 age and suggestions for its restoration, H, L, Bentley , , , „, ., -,„ 147 



