CONTENTS. Ill 



rage. 



Beet sugar production 976 



Cooperative sugar beet tests q-jq 



Sugar beet experiments lor 1S97 976 



Tobacco: Test of fertilizers, M. A. Scovcll and K. .1. >Spurr 976 



Fertilizer tests with wheat, 11. J. Waters 972 



Report of exi)erinu>nt8 conducted at the Provincial Exi)eriment (Jarden at 



Ghent in 1891-95, P. de Caluwe 974 



Third annual report of field experiments carried out during 1896, IJ. A.(iil- 



christ and F. H. Foulkes 974 



Climate and crops in Oklahoma: Field experiments with Kafir corn, 189(), (i. 



E. Morrow 976 



Report of the agriculturist of Ohio Station, J. F.Hickman 976 



HORTICULTURE. 



Vegetable gardening 976 



The utilization of unmerchantable apples, W. B. Alwood 977 



Apples of Tennessee origin, R. L. Watts 984 



The pineapple at Myers, O. Clute and W. A. Marsh 978 



Causes of frogging and bloating of prunes, F. T. Bioletti 979 



The cultivated blackberries and dewberries, H. N. Starnes 980 



The composition and classification of grapes, musts, and wines, E. \V. Hilgard. 981 

 Investigations of various types of grapes, their adaptability to difierent local- 

 ities, and their value for wine making and other purposes, made during the 



seasons of 1887-'94, F. T. Bioletti 982 



Preservation of fresh grapes, F. T. Bioletti ,.. 982 



Resistant vines — their selection, adaptation, and grafting, A. P. llayue 983 



Lilium harrisii and the electric light 984 



SEEDS — WEEDS. 



The effect of cold on seeds, C. de Candolle 986 



Additional tests of garden seeds, L. F. Kinney and G. E. Adiinis 987 



The hawkweed, L. R. Jones 987 



The orange hawkweed, L. R. .Jones and W. A. Orton 987 



Wild garlic, L.H.Dewey 988 



Report on practical work of the professor of biology, .J. H. I'anton 988 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Sunstroke of the vine, F. T. Bioletti 989 



Investigations of plant diseases in the forcing house and garden, A. D. Selby .. 989 



White spots on stored tobacco, H. (larnian 991 



Report of the botanist, A. G. Selby 996 



Report of the botanist, L. R. .Jones 992 



A new Micrococcus of potatoes and the jtarasites of potato starch grains, E. Rozc 991 

 Action of certain chemicals on the germination of spores of black rot, I.. Ravaz 



andG. Guirand 994 



Notes on certain plant diseases in Tennessee, S. M. Bain . .• 996 



Report on practical work of the professor of biology, J. 11. Panton 995 



ENTOMOLOliY. 



Experiments in beekeeping, O. .J. Lowrey 996 



Report of the apiculturist, R. F. Holtermann 997 



Notes on tobacco worms from observations made in 1896, H. Gariiian 997 



Notes on several tobacco insects and on two imperfectly known diseases of 



tobacco, H. Garman 998 



