306 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Hog cholera and swine plague, W. E. A. Wymax (South Carolina Sta. But. SI, pp. 

 ,s). — This is a popular summary of the .subject, describing hi>g cholera and swine 

 plague, with remedies and methods of prevention. 



Anthrax- A study of national and of State legislation on this subject, A.T. 

 Neale (Delaware Sta. Bui. 37, pp. 15). — This contains the enactments of Congress 

 relative to anthrax and a discussion of the State legislation on the subject now in 

 force in Delaware. 



Blackleg: Its nature, cause, and prevention, V. A. Norgaard (V. S. Dept. Agr,, 

 Bureau of Animal Industry Circ.2S,pp.l2,fig8. 2). — This is a popular bulletin giving 

 information as to the nature, symptoms, and treatment of the disease. The method 

 of opera ting and the process of vaccination, care of utensils, and what animals should 

 be vaccinated and the dose are brought out. 



Second Annual Report of the State Veterinarian, E. P. Xiles ( Virginia state 

 Veterinarian Bpt. 1897, pp. 15). — The bulletin includes the regulations concerning 

 transportation of cattle in Virginia and the rules and regulations of the board of 

 control of the agricultural experiment station for the extermination of contagious 

 and communicable diseases among domestic animals. A proclamation of the Gov- 

 ernor is quoted authorizing the establishment of live-stock quarantine lines, rules 

 and regulations, and prescribing penalties for violating the same. 



TECHNOLOGY. 



Cane sugar and the process of its manufacture in Java, H. C. Prinsen-Geer- 

 ligs (Manchester: J. Roberts $• Sons, 1898, pp. VI -f- 79+ V,fig. 1). 



Wine making in Russia. III. Eastern Transcaucasus, M. Ballas (St. Peters- 

 burg: Department of Agriculture, 1897, pp. XV-\-403; abs. in SelsJc. Ehoz. i Lyesor., 1S9 

 (1898), Apr., p. 229). — Historical and statistical sketch. 



Report of the Bessarabia Experiment Station for wine making (SeUk. Khoz. i 

 Lyesov., 188 (1S9S), Feb., pp. 327-331). 



Maladies of wine: Their cause and treatment, E. H. Rainford (Queensland 

 Agr. Jour., 3 (1808), Xo. 1, pp. 59-62). 



The preparation of flax in its relation to flax culture, I. Eltrich (Die Flachs- 

 hereitung in Hirer Beziehung sur Flaehsbaufrage. Trautenau: I. Eltrich, 1S9S). — A com- 

 parison of the different methods of preparing flax, with a special consideration of the 

 expense incurred and the results obtained. 



The manufacture of perfumes at Grasse, J. Rouche (Jour. Hyg., 33 (1898), No. 

 1150, pp. 469-473). — This article is condensed from a study of the subject by H. de 

 Parville in La Nature. 



AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING. 



State aid to road building in Minnesota, A. B. Choate ( U. 8. 



Dt})t. Agr., Office of Road Inquiry Give. 3 1 , pp. 12, Jigs. 5). — This circular 

 points out the injustice of the present system of " taxing farm property 

 to improve all country roads, and city property to improve only city 

 roads," and discusses a scheme of road legislation, the essential fea- 

 tures of which are embodied in a proposed amendment to the State 

 constitution, by which — 



"The legislature is authorized to establish a State road and bridge fund and pro- 

 vide for a State highway commission, whose members must serve without compen- 

 sation, and which shall have general supervision of the expenditure of the State 

 road and bridge fund. This amendment does not contemplate that the State shall 

 actually construct any wagon roads, but that it shall contribute not to exceed one- 



