CONTENTS. Ill 



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Soil test with Jield corn at Dover, W. II. Bisliop 486 



Fertilizer test ou sweet corn, W. H. Bishop 186 



Maize, A. A. Brigham 486 



Cotton, S. M. Tracy 487 



Cowjieas at Dover, W. H. Bishop 490 



Grasses and forage plants, 8. M. Tracy 491 



Experiments with oats, J. F. Hickman 487 



Oats, fertilizer test, C. F. Curtiss 491 



Varieties of oats, C. F. Curtiss 491 



Eestoring pasture, C. F. Cnrtiss 488 



Tests of sorghum varieties, C. L. Penny 488 



P'ield experiments with wheat, W. C. Latta and W. B. Anderson 489 



Winter wlieat, C. F. Curtiss 490 



Miscellaneous crops, S. JI. Tracy 492 



Silos and silage, D. 0. Nourse 492 



Experiments in rotation of crops, W, H, Bishop 492 



HOHTICULTURK. 



Experiments with caulillower in the greenhouse, M. H. Beckwith 492 



Tomatoes, M. H. Beckwith 493 



Apple culture, L. F. Kinney 493 



Varieties of apples, T. . I. Burrill and G. W. McCluer 494 



Apples of Tennessee origin, R. L. Watts 496 



Varieties of apples for Delaware, M. H. Beckwith 496 



Preliminary investigation of the eft'ect of the overtlowof salt water upon the 



health and fruitfnlness of peach trees. M. H. Beckwith 494 



Raspberries, M. H. Beckwith 496 



Strawberries, M. H. Beckwith 496 



Grapes, M. H, Beckwith 496 



Chestnut culture for fruit, W. A. Buckhout 497 



Some advances in breeding fruits and shrubs, .J. L. Budd and X. E. Hansen 495 



Suggestions for the planting of shrubbery, L. H. Bailey 495 



Horticultural work at Mississippi Station 497 



SEEDS — WEEDS, 



Germination of hulled and unhulled timothy seed, W. H. Bishop 497 



Copper sulphate and geriiiiuation, W. H. Evans 497 



Etfect of bisulphid of carbon on the vitality of seed and plants, M. H. Beck- 

 with 497 



Experiments to destroy horse nettle, M. H. Beckwith 498 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Ammoniacal solutions of copper carbonate, C, L, Penny 498 



Rust in wheat conference, D. McAlpine and W. Lowrie 498 



A leaf blight of the tomato, F. D. Chester 499 



Blight ;i fleeting the body of pear and iipple trees, M. H. Beckwith 499 



Experiments in spraying, F. D. Chester 500 



ENT(»MOL(>(iV. 



The chinch bug, F. M. Webster 500 



Tile San .losd scale, L. 0. Howard and C. L. Marlatt 500 



Insects injurious to the seed and root of Indian corn, S. A. ForVies 501 



Pests of grain crops, G. McCarthy 507 



