CONTENTS. Ill 



HORTICULTURE. 



Page. 



Report of the horticulturist, L. R. Taft 151 



Vegetable growing, S. C. Mason and W. L. Hall 148 



Horse-radish, M. G. Kains 151 



Watermelons, H. N. Starnes 149 



The apple orchard, L. R. Taft 151 



Strawberries : Cultural notes and variety tests, W. J. Green 150 



Strawberries, L. C. Corbett 152 



Practical advice on the hybridization of the grape, P. Castel 150 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Notes on some peach diseases, L. R. Taft 153 



The grain smuts : How they are caused and how to prevent them, W. T. 



Swingle 154 



A bacterial rot of cabbage and allied plants, H. L. Russell 155 



Fungicides, insecticides, and spraying, J. Troop 157 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Keport of the apiarist, R L. Taylor 157 



Pests of house and ornamental plants, G. C. Davis 168 



Tbe Mexican cotton-boll weevil in 1897, L. O. Howard 159 



The San Jose and other scales in Georgia, II. N. Starnes 160 



The San Jose scale and how it may be controlled, J. B. Smith 161 



The San Jose scale, L. R. Taft 169 



The periodical cicada in West Virginia, A. D. Hopkins 162 



Some common injurious insects of western Nevada, F. H. Hillman 163 



Insect injuries to Ontario crops in 1896, J. Fletcher 164 



Injurious insects, etc 165 



Natural history of the genus Chrysopa, Leach, M. Lurie 166 



The black peach aphis, L. R. Taft 169 



The box-elder plant bug, L. O. Howard 169 



Report of the consulting entomologist, G. C. Davis 169 



Spraying — why and how, L. R. Taft 169 



White arsenic as a substitute for Paris green, L. R. Taft 169 



FOODS — ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



Milk as food 181 



Silage, C.D.Smith -- 182 



Food preservatives, H. Leffmann 170 



Vinegar, C. D. Smith 181 



Analyses of feeding stuffs, E. F. Ladd 171 



Nutrition investigations at the University of Tennessee in 1896 and 1897, C. E. 



Wait 171 



Nutrition investigations in Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, 1894-1896, Isabel Bevier. 173 



A comparison of Utah feeding stuffs, L. Foster and L. A. Merrill 175 



Wheat and corn as food for pigs, C. S. Plumb and W. B. Anderson 176 



Montana swine feeding, F. Beach 177 



Some essentials of beef production, C. F. Curtiss 179 



Digestion experiments, J. A. Widtsoe 179 



Poultry, C.D.Smith 180 



DAIRY FARMING — DAIRYING. 



The college herd, C. D. Smith 188 



Some points in the physiological chemistry and coagulation of milk, D. F. 



Harris 185 



Some investigations concerning separator slime, Barthel 186 



Skimming and churning in Swedish creameries, N. Engstrom 187 



Butter fat in cheese * - 188 



