CONTENTS. Ill 



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Analyses of fertilizers, C. A. Goessmann 1033 



Virginia marls, W. B. Ellett and A. T. Eskridge 1032 



Investigations on the fertilizing value of carbon bisulphid, E. Wollny 1032 



Experiments to determine the fertilizer requirements of soils, (i. Liebscher 



et al 1033 



FIELD CROPS. 



Results obtained in 1808 from trial plats of grain, fodder corn, and roots, W. 



Saunders „■ 1034 



The effect of different methods of culture on the yield of mangel-wurzels, E. 



Wollny 1035 



A report of the cultural experiments at the agricultural college at Carlsburg. 1036 

 Distance experiments with sugar beets and fertilizer tests with potatoes, 



C. von Seelhorst 1036 



The composition of sugar beets rich in sugar 1036 



The influence of different rates of fertilization on the yields of cultivated 



plants, E. Wollny 1036 



Report of field experiments, 1897-98, A. Damseaux 1036 



Test of fertilizers on wheat, D. O. Nourse 1037 



A contribution to the question of how kainit affects the potato when applied 



to the preceding crop, O. Lemmermann 1038 



Researches on the quantities of fertilizing materials necessary iu the intensive 



culture of the potato, A. Girard 1038 



On the eousumption of water in rice fields, I. Inagaki 1038 



HORTICULTURE. 



The Stringfellow root-pruning theory, H. N. Starnes 1040 



Orchard cultivation, J. T. Stinson 1044 



Orchard notes, F. S. Earle 1041 



Apples in Pennsylvania, G. C. Butz 1042 



Tests of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and grapes, J. Troop 1042 



Strawberry culture — notes on varieties, L. R. Taft and H. P. Gladden 1043 



A native white bedding plant, J. C. Arthur 1043 



FORESTRY. 



A sketch of the original distribution of white pine in the lower peninsula, 



C.F.Wheeler • 1045 



The present condition of Michigan forests and stump lands, with suggestions 



as to their care, F. C. Skeels 1045 



Forestry legislation, C. D. Smith 1046 



Methods of reforesting pine stump lands, W. J. Beal 1046 



SEEDS — WEEDS. 



Seed-testing regulations 1046 



On the salt-water method of the selection of seeds, T. Yokoi 1047 



On the selection of rape seed, C. Kobayashi 1047 



On the effect of soaking rice seeds, T. Yokoi 1047 



The influence of ether upon the germination of seeds and spores, C. O. 



Townsend 1048 



Weeds of cornfields, L. H. Pammel 1048 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Mycological notes, B. D. Halsted 1049 ,- 105 ° 



Cotton rust, F. S. Earle 105 _ l 



The potato disease, H. M. Ward ltU>2 



