ABSTRACTS OF PUBLICATIONS OF TflE FNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 



AliRlCLLTLKE. 



BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



Farmers' Bulletin Xo. 8. 



Inoculation for the prevention of hog cholera, T). E. 

 Salmon (pp. 40), — A i)opular account of the experiments made by this 

 Department and elsewlicrc with reference to the protection of swine 

 against ho*;- clKih'iii, iiicliidiiiu- :i rcp(»rt on the test conducted in 

 La Salle County, Illinois, in 1S'.»1, under the suitcrvisiun of a committee 

 of farmers. The conclusion is reached that inocuhition as a lueven- 

 tive aji'ainst hou diolera is a faihire frcuu whatever jxtint of view it be 

 regarded, and tlie I'armers are warned aj^ainst tlie use of that method, 

 which is shown to have been in many cases more fatal than the disease 

 it is intended to ]uevent. As an instance of this the fact is stated that 

 whereas the losses following incM-ulation in Xebraska duriri';" ISld were 

 10 per cent the losses amonu uninoculated animals were but t per cent. 



WEATHER BUREAU. 



Circulars 15 and c, Instui mi.nt Uoom, 



Instructions fok tuv. use of maxlmum and minimum ther- 

 mometers AND THE KAIN GAlMiE (J)]). 10 and S, M.trs. and ;?).— 

 Illustrated descri[)tions of these instruments and detailed directions 

 for their use. 



OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



I*:\ri;KiMENT Station Bulletin No. 8. 



Lectures on the investiciAtions at the Eothamsted Experi- 

 mental Station, li. Warington, F. 11. S. (pp, 113, plates 11). — 

 These lectures were delivered under the provisions of the Lawes 

 Ajriicultural Trust before the Associati»m of American Agricultural 

 Colleges and f^xi)eriment Stations, at Washington. 1). C, August 12-ls. 

 1801, and are the lirst of a series to be delivered biennially in the Cnited 

 States, in order that "Americans should feel that 'they have a share' 

 in any benefits wliich may arise from the Kothamsted end<»\vmcnt." 



