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Grasses and forage plants, B. C. Pittuck 838 



Report of the State chemical -control station at Christiania, Norway, for 1897, 



F. H. Werenskiold 838 



The culture of beets on the experimental held at Grignon in> 1895, 1896, and 



1897, P.P. Deherain 839 



Experiments with sugar beets in Norway in 1897, B. Larsen 841 



Experiments at the Dercbchinskoe experiment field of Baron A. A. Mas, 



P. Lynbanski 841 



Experiments with sugar beets at the experiment station of Count Bobrinski 



at Smyela, Kiev Government, Russia, V. Boudiryev 841 



Experiments on sugar beets in the Royal School of Agriculture at l'ortici 842 



Tobacco, J. Craig 842 



Experiments with wheat, J. S.Newman and C. M. Conner 842 



Wheat 842 



Field experiments with wheat, W. C. Latta and W. 1!. Anderson 843 



Sowing field crops at different rates in Russia 843 



The chemistry of the corn kernel, C. G. Hopkins 844 



Clovers as green manures, F. T. Shutt 845 



Experiments in fertilizing meadows 845 



Fertilizer experiments with lime, F. H. Werenskiold 846 



HORTICULTURE. 



Report of the horticulturist, J. Craig 848 



Trial shipments of fruit 819 



Fruits, H. Benton 854 



Report on plums, G. Vestal and F. Garcia 854 



The date palm, J. W. Tourney 851 



Results of experiments in the cross fertilizing of plants, shrubs, and trees, 



\V. Saunders . . . , 851 



Ornamental plants for Maine, W. M. Munson 855 



FORESTRY. 



Report of the foreman of forestry, W. C. Macoun 855 



DISEASES OV PLANTS. 



The effect of aqueous solutions upon the germination of fungus spores, F. L. 



Stevens 857 



Influence of wet weather upon parasitic fungi, B. D. Halsted 858 



Concerning the etiology of some diseases of cultivated plants, F. Carvara 858 



Fungus diseases, J. Craig 860 



Some important wheat diseases, C. O. Townseud 864 



Red rust of wheat, H. Garman 864 



Rust in wheat during the dry season of 1897, D. McAlpine N61 



The treatment of sooty mold (fumagine), L. Degrully 861 



Notes on Stewart's sweet-corn germ (Pscudomonas stewarti), E. F. Smith 862 



The time for treatment of black rot in southeastern France, J. Perraud 862 



The life history and characteristics of the pear-blight germ, M. 13. Waitc 863 



Notes on some diseases of southern pines, H. von Schrenk 863 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Report of the entomologist and botanist, J. Fletcher 866 



Experiments with bees, S. A. Bedford 866 



