CONTENTS. Ill 



SEEDS — WEEDS. 



Pago 



Wind distribution of seeds, E. M. Hussong 553 



An investigation of various germination media, B. Jonsson 554 



Report of Swedish seed-control stations for 1896 554 



Additional notes on seed testing, G. H. Hicks and S. Key 555 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Peach yellows in nursery stock, G. H. Powell 556 



A preliminary report upon the diseases of the peach, A. D. Selby 557 



Smuts and rusts of grain in Idaho and the most approved methods of dealing 



with them, L. F. Henderson 559 



Concerning the red rust of the currant, J. Eriksson 559 



The effect of benzolin and sulfuriu on potato plants, K. Thiele 560 



Danger of introducing a Central American coffee disease into Hawaii, YV. T. 



Swingle 560 



Phy topathological notes, F. Sitensky 560 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



The Buffalo gnats, or black flies, of the United States, D. W. Coquillett 508 



Further notes on the house fly, L. O. Howard : 568 



Preliminary notes on the codling moth, T. D. A. Cockerell 562 



Two Japanese insects injurious to fruit, M. Matsumura 569 



A new orchard pest — the friuged-wing apple-bud moth, J. M. Stedman 564 



The peach-twig borer, C. L. Marlatt 565 



The quince curculio, M. V. Slingerland 565 



Notes on the strawberry weevil: Its injuries and bibliography, F. H. Chit- 

 tenden 569 



The fig-eater, or green June beetle, L. O. Howard 569 



The San Jose scale in Missouri, J. M. Stedman 566 



Destructive locusts in 1897, W. D. Hunter 569 



The tobacco flea-beetle, F. H. Chittenden 569 



On the habits of the Oscinida? and Agromyzidse reared at the United States 



Department of Agriculture, D. W. Coquillett 570 



Notes on cucumber beetles, F. H. Chitteuden 570 



Insects that affect asparagus, F. H. Chittenden 570 



The sugar-cane borers of Java, L. Zehntner 570 



Digestion in the larva? of the gypsy moth, A. H. Kirkland and F. J. Smith ' 566 



Arsenate of lead : Its manufacture aud chemical composition, F. J. Smith 567 



Danger from the use of arsenate of lead, A. H. Kirkland 567 



Concerning the direct combating of phylloxera on stock, C. Mohr 567 



Experiments with insecticides, A. H. Kirkland and A. F. Burgess 567 



Some spraying mixtures, G. W. Cavanaugh 568 



Danger of importing insect pests, L. O. Howard 570 



Notes from correspondence 570 



General notes 571 



Report of the entomologist, G. H. Powell 571 



FOODS — ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



Fresh and refrigerated meats, A. Gautier 571 



Nutrition investigations in New Mexico in 1897, A. Goss 573 



The needs aud requirements of a control of feeding stuffs, E. W. Allen 582 



Utilization of by-products of the dairy, II. E. Alvord 582 



The principles of stock feeding, W. J. Spillman 583 



Deep stalls and ordinary stalls for steers, together with feeding experiments 



with molasses peat and molasses bran, F. Albert 573 



Feeding experiment No. 2 with steers, F. Albert 574 



