CONTENTS. Ill 



Page. 



Home-grown grapes in Vermont, F. A. Waugh 440 



New Hampshire fruit calendar for 1897, F. W. Rane 440 



Fourth report upon chrysanthemums, W. Miller 438 



FORESTRY. 



The hald cypress, F. Roth 441 



Increasing the durability of timber, B. E. Femow 442 



Forestry experiments at the Mustiala experiment stations, 1894-95, T. Cannelin . 442 

 Practical assistance to farmers, lumbermen, and others in handling forest 



lands, (1. Pinch ot 443 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Report of the botanist, B. D. Halsted 443 



Some important pear diseases, B. M. Duggar 450 



Studies on beau anthracnose, E. Gain 451 



A cure for the lily disease, H. Byatt 451 



Septoria graminum, a parasite of wheat, L. Mangiu • 452 



Wood ashes and apple scab, S. A. Beach 452 



The communicability of potato-stem blight, F. C. Stewart 452 



The effect of plowing under green rye to prevent potato scab, F. C. Stewart.. 453 



Department of bacteriology, H. H. Lamson 453 



Effects of common salt on the growth of carnations and carnation rust, F. C. 



Stewart 453 



Further experiments on spraying cucumbers, F. C. Stewart 454 



Suggestions on spraying, H. P. Gould 455 



Spraying for the destruction of fungi and insects, S. T. Maynard 457 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Report of the entomologist, J. B. Smith 457 



Report of the department of entomology, ('. M. Weed 459 



Insects of the year, G. H. Perkins 459 



Four injurious insects, D. A. Saunders 460 



The codling moth, M. V. Slingerland 460 



Observations on the codling moth, F. W. Card 463 



The periodical cicada in 1898, E. A. Schwarz 469 



The Orthoptera of Minnesota, O. Lugger 466 



Cotton wood-leaf beetle ; green arsenite, V. H. Lowe 467 



Plant lice — descriptions, enemies, and treatment, V. H. Lowe 467 



Brief notes on the San Jose scale, H. P. Gould 468 



Inspection of nurseries and treatment of infested nursery stock, V. H. Lowe.. 468 

 Legislation relating to insects and diseases of fruit trees, and preliminary 



report of the State inspector of nurseries and orchards, L. R. Taft and D. W. 



Trine 470 



The peach-tree borer, C. F. Baker 469 



The fruit-bark beetle, C.F.Baker 469 



The fruit-tree bark beetle, F. H. Chittenden 469 



Bibliography of the more important contributions to American economic 



entomology, VI, N. Banks 470 



Spraying calendar for 1898, L. R. Taft 470 



FOODS— ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



A calorimeter for the human body, W. Marcet 470 



An experimental inquiry into the heat given out by the human body, W. Marcet 



and R. B. Floris . r 471 



