IV CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Fruit luevities, L. H. Bailey 311 



The cultivated poplars, L. H. Bailey 314 



Notes on ornameutal trees and shrubs, E. S. t;off 314 



FORESTRY. 



Native shrubs and trees of South Dakota, T. A. ^^"illialU8 315 



Forestry, L. C . Corbett 315 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Grain smuts and potato scab, A. Nelson 318 



Peach yellows, L. H. Bailey 318 



Leaf curl and plum pockets, G. F. Atkinson 318 



Leaf blight of the strawberry, L. H. Bailey - 318 



Black knot of plums and cherries and methods of treatment, E. G. Lodeman.. 318 



Some grape troubles of western New York, E. G. Lodeman 318 



Bordeaux mixture, its chemistry, physical properties, and toxic effects on fungi 



and algaj, W. T. Swingle 315 



Why, when, what, and how to spray, L. C. Corbett 318 



Eeport of the botanical department, J. C. Arthur 316 



Report of the Tiacterioiogist, H. H. Lamson 318 



KeiJort of the botanist, A. D. Selby 317 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Forms of the so-called potato scab caused by insects, A. D. Hopkins 320 



On certain grass-eating insects, a synopsis of the si>ecies of Crambus of the 



Ithaca fauna, E. W. Felt 320 



Cabbage root maggot, with notes on the onion maggot and allied sjjeeies . 320 



A plum scale in western New York, M. V. Slingerland 320 



Some dangerous fruit insects, C. M. Weed 321 



Two shade-tree pests, C. M. Weed 318 



Insects of the year, J. Troop 321 



The insect record for 1895, C. M. Weed 321 



Insect pests of the garden, farm, and orchard, C. V. Piper 321 



The use of arsenites on tobacco, H. Garman 319 



Analyses of iiisectici<les. F. W. Morse 321 



FOODS — ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



The influence of the addition of fat and starch to a ration upon the digesti- 

 bility of the nutrients of the food and upon the metabolism of nitrogen, A. 



Wicke and H. Weiske 321 



The use of sugar in feeding animals, MalT)eaux 323 



On the coiniiarative digestibility of whole oats, rolled oats, and crushed oats, 



P. Gay ". 323 



Principles of stock feeding and some New Mexico feeding stuffs, A. Goss 331 



Feeding wheat to hogs, E. C. Chilcott 332 



Experiments in swine feeding, \V. A. Henry 324 



Rape for feeding sheep, J. A. Craig 327 



Breeding early lambs. J. A. Craig 328 



Fall shearing lambs before fattening, J. A. Cra ig 329 



Breeding experiments, E. C. Chilcott 329 



Grain feeding lambs for market, J. A. Craig .* 332 



Food and diet, W. O. Atwater 329 



Analyses of feeding stuffs, F. W. Morse 331 



Tuberculosis in relation to animal iudoetry and public health, J. Law 335 



