II CONTENTS. 



WATER — SOILS. 



Page. 



Analyses of waters , 228 



Alkali and alkali soils, K. H. Loughridge 225 



A chemical study of some typical soils of the Florida peninsula, A. A. Persons. 226 



Soils of San Joaquin Valley Substation, California, C. H. Shinn 229 



Physical effects of lime on soils, J. B. Reynolds 228 



Experiments in capillarity with long tubes, J. B. Reynolds 228 



Soil temperatures 229 



Rocks, clays, coals, plants, and miscellaneous substances • 229 



Examination of soils 229 



FERTILIZERS. 



Improvement and fertilization of land, E. W. Hilgard 235 



Commercial fertilizers 229 



Composition of the ashes of different woods, R. Harcourt 232 



Experiments on the availability of fertilizer nitrogen, S. W. Johnson, E. H. 



Jenkins, and W. E. Britton 232 



Alkali, C. H. Shinn 235 



FIELD CROPS. 



Report of the agricultural department, W. C. Latta 236 



Chicory growing as an addition to the resources of the American farmer, 



M.G.Kains 236 



Analyses of cafiaigre or tanners' dock, G. E. Colby 244 



Experiments with field roots, silage, and forage crops, C. A. Zavitz 237 



Report of grasses and fodder plants, A. B. Leckenby 244 



Report on grasses and forage plants, E. J. Wickson 245 



Notes on hay growing, C. H. Shinn 245 



Some economic plants, C. H. Shinn 244 



Small culture plats, C. H. Shinn 244 



Notes on small cultures, A. V. Stubenrauch 245 



The cultivated vetches, J. G. Smith 245 



Experiments with varieties of grain, C. A. Zavitz 238 



Sugar beets in Colorado in 1897, W. W. Cooke and W. P. Headden 240 



Sugar-beet growing in Iowa, 1897, C. F. Curtiss and J. Atkinson 241 



Sugar beets, M.E.Jaffa 246 



Growing sugar beets for factories, G. H. West 246 



Cooperative sugar-beet work 246 



Sugar beets, C. T. Jordan 246 



Experiments in the fertilizing and curing of tobacco, 1897, E. H. Jenkins 242 



Experiments in growing tobacco with different fertilizers. Report on the fer- 

 mented crops of 1896, E. H. Jenkins 242 



Results of the experiments with tobacco fertilizers for the years 1892 to 1896, 



E. H. Jenkins 242 



HORTICULTURE. 



Horticulture at the Southern Coast Range Culture Substation, C. H. Shinn. .. 254 



Report of the horticultural department, J. Troop 254 



Outline of the work of the horticultural department, S. A. Beach 254 



Report of the horticulturist, H. L. Hutt 252 



On the use of commercial fertilizers for forcing-house crops, E. H. Jenkins and 



W. E. Britton 246 



Distribution of seeds, plants, cuttings, etc., E. J. Wickson 253 



Fruits of the Foothill Culture Substation, C. H. Shinn 254 



