IV 



Page. 



AhstractK of reports of foreign iuvestigations 550 



Titles of artielos in recent foreign publications 578 



Experiment station notes 5S0 



List of publications of the United States Department of Agriculture issued 



during Feltriiary, 1892 582 



List of station publications received by the Office of Experiment Stations dur- 

 ing February, 1892 Ct'3 



SUBJECT LIST OF ABSTRACTS. 



CHEMISTRY. 



The use of animal charcoal in the determination of fat in feeding stulfr;, II. J. 



Patterson 510 



BOTANY — .MYCOLOGY. 



Grasses of the f^onthwest. Part ii, G. Vasey ji48 



The formation and oxidation of nitrites during nitrification, S. Winogradsky. 550 



The formation of nitrates in the process of nitriticatiim, S. Winogradsky 551 



On the fixation of free nitrogen by plants, T. Schlosing, jr., and K. Laurent 551 



On the fixation of nitrogen by the soil, A. Gauticr and K. Drouin 552 



Soil inoculation for yellow Inpine, Salfeld 5.5;{ 



Conditions most favorable to the beneficial action of fluorides on yeast feniien- 



tation, J. Effront '. .")5;^ 



Wheat scab, J. C. Arthur 512 



Observations on strawberry leaf blight and blackberry rust at Maryland 



Station, T. L. Brunk .">15 



C<>nil»inations of fungicides and insecticides, and some new fungicides, E. (;. 



LoiU-mann .">21 



Experinu-nts with Bordeaux mixture for iiotat<» rot at Khode Island Statinn, 



L. F. Kinney 5o2 



KNTOMOI.OGY — AriClLTLUi:. 



Insect Life, Vol. iv, Nos. 5 and ti. December. 1891 5 It? 



Kcport (d apiarist i>f K'liodc Island ."station fur 1890, S. Cushman .";!2 



MKTEOKor.OGY. 



Meteorological record at Maryland Station for 1890 517 



Meteorological observations at Massacliust-tt-s Hatch Station, December. 1S91, 



with annual summary, V. D. Warner 520 



Meteorological record at lihode Island St.it ion (or 180O 5;?2 



Meteorology in relation to tiie crops of the liiited .'States in 1891 '>\'.i 



Monthly Weather Review of United States Weatlur Bureau, Vol. xix, No. 10, 



October, 1891 519 



IKUTU.IZKUS. 



Sodium as a plant nutrient, A. Atterlierg .551 



Analyses of marls, muck, and marsli mud at Maiylaiul .>>tal iou, II. .1. Patterson. . 515 



Analyses of groiiiul bonc^ and miscellaneous fertilizers, E. M. A'oorhees 523 



Analy.ses of fertilizers at Rhode Island Station, II. .1. Wheeler 5I!0 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers at Kliode Island Station. II. .1. Whi ebr and 



B. L. Hartwell 5:« 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers at South Carcdina Station 53ti 



