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prcYions. While "it is of course too early as yet to expect results," 

 atteiitiou is called to the following points: 



(1) Thus far peas along witli the cotton, oats sowed among the cotton plants in the 

 fall and turned under in the spring, and the return of the [cotton] seed of the pre- 

 ceding year alone or in connection with the pea or oat crop, have been of but slight 

 henefit to the cotton. 



(2) The difference between the effects of peas and oats is slight. 



(3) As remarked under the head of the rotations for corn, the pea and oat crops 

 were certainly grown witliout injury to the cotton crop of the same year. 



I Miscellaneous crops (pp. 342-344). — This includes brief remarks on 

 tobacco, sorghum, sugar cane, and soja beans raised at the station, and 

 a statement of the yields and in some cases of the estimated financial 

 results. 



Report op Treasurer, I. H. Means (p. 345).— An exhibit of the 

 receipts and expenditures of the station for the fiscal year ending June 

 30, 1889. 



Tennessee Station, Bulletin Vol. IV, No. 3, July, 1891 (pp. 22). 



The Heteroptera of Tennessee, H. E. Summers (pp. 75-9G, 

 plate 1, figs. 12). — This includes an illustrated account of the terms 

 used iu describing insects, a key to the families of Hete^-ojHera, and 

 classified accounts of insects of this order which are found in Ten- 

 nessee, together with suggestions as to remedies for these insects, and 

 a description of spraying apparatus. 



Texas Station, Bulletin No. 17, August, 1891 (pp. 16). 



General information REaARDiNa the station, G. W. Curtis, 

 M. S. A. (pp. 109-122).— The acts of CongTess and of the State legis- 

 lature under which the station was established, a brief account of the 

 organization of the station, with lists of officers, a summary of the 

 results of experiments, an outline of the work iu progress, an inventory 

 of station property, and a financial statement for each year during 

 which the station has been in operation. 



