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definite effect on the quantity of fi-uit produced resultiug froui resanding or 

 the laclc thereof. The author concludes that the advantages gained by resand- 

 ing are of such a general nature — a certain amount of frost protection and 

 help in the control of the tip worm and girdler being the most evident — that 

 they are not definitely determinable by means of plat experiments. 



A resume is given of the results secured from fertilizers with reference to 

 the effect on quantity and keeping quality of cranberries from 1911, when the 

 experiments were started, up to the present time. The data given indicate a 

 moderate average increase in the quantity of fruit obtained during the five-year 

 period from the fertilized areas as compared with that from the checks. 

 Nitrate of soda appears to have impaired the keeping quality of the fruit 

 somewhat, while no effect in this respect connected with the use of acid phos- 

 phate and sulphate of potash is apparent. Results on one of the limed plats 

 suggest the inference that lime favors the development of some disease that 

 is peculiar to the Early Black variety of cranberry. Experiments with fer- 

 tilizers to determine the possibility of stimulating and increasing the setting 

 of cranberry blossoms were continued, no very distinct advantage in quantity 

 of fruit being shown by the fertilized areas. The berries from three of these 

 plats were put in storage tests, and all showed an impaired keeping quality in 

 comparison with the fruit from the checks. 



With experience gained from the cranberry investigations as a basis, the 

 author here presents and discusses for the consideration of Massachusetts 

 growers a number of ideas relative to changes in bog management looking to 

 moi'e successful culture and marketing practices. The season's work with 

 plant diseases and insects is noted on pages 51 and 54. 



FORESTRY, 



Annual report of the director of forestry of the Philippine Islands for 

 the fiscal year ended December 31, 1915, W. F. Sherfesee (Ann. Rpt. Dir. 

 Forestry P. I., 1915, pp. 91, pis. 2). — This is the usual progress report relative to 

 the administration, investigation, management, and reconnoissance work for the 

 year ended December 31, 1915. Data relative to applications for homesteads, 

 purchases, and leases of public lands, timber cut by species, revenues, timber 

 licenses, utilization of forest products from the public forests, and exports and 

 imports of major and minor forest products are appended. 



Report on state nurseries and plantations, T. N. Bkodrick et al. {New 

 Zeal. Dept. Lands, Rpt. State Nurseries and Plantations, 1915, pp. 32). — A report 

 of forest operations on the various state nurseries and plantations in New 

 Zealand for the year ended March 31, 1916. 



Report of the chief forest fire warden for the year 1915, G. H. Wirt (Penn. 

 Dept. Forestry Bui. IS (1916), pp. 182). — This includes a report on forest fires 

 in Pennsylvania in 1915, activities dealing with forest protection, and a review 

 of forest-fire legislation in the State by I. C. Williams. 



Grass and woodland fires in Texas, J. H. Foster {Bui. Agr. and Mech. Col. 

 Tex., 3. ser., 2 {1916), No. 5, pp. 16, figs. 5). — In this bulletin the author calls 

 attention to the serious damage done, both to the agricultural and forestal 

 industries of Texas, through grass and woodland fires, and gives the text of the 

 laws of the State dealing with forestry and forest protection. 



Importance of soil aeration in forestry, R. S. Hole {Agr. Jour. India, Spec. 

 Indian Sci. Cong. No., 1916, pp. 2nf-32, pis. 5). — In this paper the author dis- 

 cusses the damage that may be done to the seedlings of forest trees by in- 

 sufllcient soil aeration when the physical condition of the soil is apparently 



