II CONTENTS. 



FERMENTATION — BACTERIOLOGY. 



Page. 

 A preliminary arrangement of the species of the genns Bacterium, F. D. 



Chester 519 



Bacteriological examination of drinking water, F. D. Chester 520 



ZOOLOGY. 



Birds that injure grain, F. E. L. Beal 521 



Further notes on the hirds of Colorado, W. W. Cooke 521 



METEOROLOGY. 



Report of the meteorologist, W. H. Bishop 522 



Rainfall of the crop season, A. J. Henry 522 



AIR — WATER — SOILS. . 



Some interesting soil problems, M. Whitney 523 



Lavas and soils of the Hawaiian Islands, W. Maxwell et al 525 



Tobacco soils, M. Whitney 531 



FERTILIZERS. 



The home-mixing of fertilizers, C. E. Thorne 532 



Bone superphosphate, F. Poquillon 532 



FIELD CROPS. 



Field experiments at the experiment farm at Lauchstiidt in 1895 and 1896, 



M. Maercker 533 



Corn culture in the South, S. M. Tracy 540 



The cost of the production of corn and oats in Illinois in 1896 510 



A report on ilax culture for seed and fiber in Europe and America, C. R. Dodge. 511 



Present status of flax culture in the United States, C. R. Dodge 541 



A report upon the grasses and forage plants and forage conditions of the East- 

 ern Rocky Mountain region, T. A. Williams 541 



Leguminous forage crops, J. G. Smith 542 



Winter and summer pasture in Mississippi, E. R. Lloyd 547 



Some Irish potato experiments, C. L. Newman 542 



Sugar beets, H. Snyder and A. Boss 543 



Sugar-beet investigations of 1897, G. W. Shaw 544 



Irrigation experiments in sugar-beet culture in the Yakima Valley, E. Fulmer. 545 



The culture of tobacco, O. C. Butterweck 547 



Cultivation of tobacco in Sumatra, E. Mulder 545 



Report of the agriculturist, W. H. Bishop 546 



HORTICULTURE. 



Horticulture : Results for 1896-97, W. C. Stubbs et al 547 



Winter forcing of asparagus in the open field, J. C. Whitten 548 



Improvement of the wild carrot by grafting it on the cultivated carrot, 



L. Daniel 549 



Some edible and poisonous fungi, W. G. Farlow 551 



Strawberries, F. S. Earle 552 



The fruit industry and substitution of domestic for foreign-grown fruits, 



W. A. Taylor 549 



A report on damage to fruit trees caused by the severe freeze of November 



26-28, 1896, J. A. Balmer 550 



Lawns and lawn making, F. Lamson-Scribner 551 



The frnifc industry and substitution of domestic for foreign-grown fruits, 



W. A. Tavlor . 552 



