CONTENTS. Ill 



FIELD CROPS. 



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 Experiments with different kinds of fertilizers in 1896 on the Kazan Experi- 

 mental Farm : 337 



Practical chemistry of soils and crops, G. L. Holter and J. Fields 318 



Experiments with field crops, 1897, Gs E. Morrow and J. H. Bone 340 



Report of the agriculturist. J. H. Shepperd 340 



A study of the castor-oil plant, G. L. Holter and J. Fields :;i l 



Crimson clover, F. E. Finery 348 



Cotton and corn experiments, 1897, B. C. Pittuck 342 



A variety test of cotton, 1893, F. E. Emery :;|n 



A small variety test of cowpeas, F. E. Emery 348 



Report upon the grasses and forage plants of central Texas, H. L. Bentley 342 



Experiments with oats, C. C. Georgeson, F. C. Burtis, and D. H. Otis 343 



Potatoes : Tests with fertilizers, M. A. Scovell 314 



Some experiments with potatoes, F. E. Emery 349 



Sorghum : Its development as a commercial source of sugar, C. L. Penny 345 



Sugar beets, J. T.Willard 346 



Sugar-beet investigations in 1897, A. D. Selby and L. M. Bloomfield 346 



Wyoming sugar beets, E. E. Slosson and B. C. Buffnm 346 



Cane, sirup, and sugar, H. F. Stockbridge 347 



Test of effect of chemical manure and cotton-seed meal on the germination of 



wheat, F. E. Emery 349 



Cooperative experiments made by the Ohio Agricultural Students' Union in 



1896, L. M. Bloomfield and J. S.Hine 350 



HORTICULTURE. 



Report of horticultural department, C. B. Waldron 353 



Asparagus, F. W. Card 350 



Sweet corn for New Hampshire, F. W. Rane 354 



A study of lettuces, W. F. Massey 354 



Growing melons in the North, F. W. Rane 350 



Tomatoes, J. S. Robinson 350 



Tomato growing, E. B. Yoorhees 354 



Some principles in Delaware apple culture, G. H. Powell 354 



Miscellaneous fruit notes, S. C. Mason and W. L. Hall 351 



Varieties of pears and peaches, G. Coote : 352 



Strawberries, C. W. Matthews 355 



Marketing fruit, M. Craig 353 



The cultivation of the hazelnut, G. Coote 355 



Ornamenting home grounds, W. M. Munson 355 



Flower-seed growing in America, W. YV. Tracy 352 



Adherence to type of seed breeding, W. W. Tracy 353 



FORESTRY. 



Woods adapted for the manufacture of paper pulp, F. Roth 356 



The sustained yield of spruce lands, G. Pinchot - 357 



Financial returns of forest administration in Bavaria 357 



SEEDS — WEEDS. 



Heat of imbibition by seeds, G. Macloskie - 358 



The influence of X-rays on germiuation, Maldiney and Thouvenin 358 



Effect of different temperatures of water on the germination of olive seeds, 



N. Passerini. :; "' !l 



Exchange seed list, W. A. Setcholl and J. B. Davy 361 



The woolly mullein, H. Ganuan 359 



