II CONTENTS. 



FERTILIZERS. 



Page, 

 Report of analyses of commercial fertilizers for the fall ot 1896, L. L. Van 



Slyke 122 



Fertilizer analyses, H. 1>. Battle 123 



A warning in regard to compost peddlers 123 



FIELD CROPS. 



Alfalfa, W. P. Wheeler 133 



Fertilizer, culture, and variety experiments on corn, R. J. Redding 124 



Experiments with corn, C. C. Georgeson, F. C. Burtis, and D. II. Otis 125 



Cooperative fertilizer experiments with cotton in 1896, J. F. Duggar 126 



Fertilizer, culture, and variety experiments on cotton, R. J. Redding 127 



Economy in using fertilizers for raising potatoes, L. L. Van Slyke 128 



Potatoes; variety tests in 1896; potatoe implements, S. B. Green 128 



Seedling canes, G. S. Jenmau and J. B. Harrison 128 



Beet-sugar production: Possibilities for a new industry in Wisconsin, W. A. 



Henry 133 



Sngai beets, W. S. 1 >evol 134 



Fertilizer experiments with sugar beets at Alnarp. Sweden, 1896, S. Forsberg. 129 

 Progress of the several experimental farms in L896, W. M. Hayes, T. A. Hover- 



stadt, W. W. Pendergast, and A. ISoss 131 



Forage crops and wheat, A. A. Crozier 131 



Experimental crop notes, 1896, C. 1". (urtiss 132 



HORTICULTURE. 



Celery, L. F. Kinney 135 



Fig culture 135 



A contribution to the physiology of the graft : influence of stock upon scion, 



G. Riviere and G. Bailhache 136 



Homo propagation, J. L. Budd 



Blackberries, dewberries, and raspberries, W.Paddock 137 



Gooseberries, S. A. Beach 138 



FORESTRY. 



Rate of increase on the cut-over timber lauds of Minnesota, S. 15. Green and 



II. B. Ayers 141 



SEEDS — WEEDS. 



Rules and apparatus for seed testing 143 



Some I king aboul weeds, .1. \V. Tourney 142 



Some weeds <>f tlie mustard family, L, H. Pammel 112 



Three troublesome weeds, ]'. L. Harvey 143 



DISEASES «>r PLANTS. 



Studies upon the smut of wheat, oats, and barley, with a resume of treatment 



, experiments conducted during the past three years. II, L. Ho] ley 1 1:'> 



Broom-corn smut, G. P. Clinton 145 



Notes on celery diseases, L. 1". Kinney 146 



The treatment of plant diseases in 1896, P.D.Chester 147 



Treatment of leaf spot in plum and cherry orchards in 1896, S. A. Beach 148 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Insects injurious in 1896, <>. Lugger 149 



Studies of the life histories of grass-feeding Jassidac, H. Osborn .and E. I>. Ball. 152 



The eaiikerworm, ('. M. Weed 160 



