CONTENTS. HI 



Pacre. 



Report on horticulture at the Rain Belt Substation. J. E. Payne 246 



Report of horticulturist, P. II. Knit's 247 



Some horticultural suggestions, F. S. Earle 247 



Report of the horticulturist, C. S. Crandall 244 



FORESTRT. 



Forestry in South Dakota. L. C. Corbett 247 



DISEASKS OF PLANTS. 



Antliraniosr of the bean, P. It. Rolfs 251 



Celery blight, P. II. Rolfa - 251 



flu' downy mildew of the cucumber; what it is and how to prevent it. I'. ('. 



Stewart 248 



On the development of the white rot fungus of grapes, P. Viala 249 



On the use of sulphate of iron for the destruction of the fungus parasites of 



the grape, <J. Croquevielle 250 



I'omato blight, P. II. Wolfs 250 



Experiments on the treatment of the potato rot, I'. Bondrin 251 



Spraying, F. C. Sears 252 



ENTOMOLOGY . 



The influence of environment on the life history of in>-eets. .). B. Smith 252 



Insects affecting domestic animals. II. Osborn 252 



flic San Jos< or pernicious scale, \Y. I!. Alwood 255 



Food plants of the San Jose - scale in Ohio, exclusive of fruit trees. F. M. Web- 



ster 255 



The San Jose" scale in Kentucky. II. Garland 261 



Notes on the codling moth, F. W. Card 255 



The clover mite, ('. L. Marlatt 260 



The periodical cicada in 1807, E. A. Schwarz - 260 



The woolly aphis of the apple, ( '. L. Marlatt 261 



A few insect enemies of the orchard. ('. P. (iillette 261 



The beet beetle and other enemies of sugar beets, A. Silantyev 256 



The strawberry weevil. F. H. Chittenden 261 



The pistol case bearer, V. H. Lowe 257 



A practical method of lighting cutworms in onion fields, F. A. Sirrine 257 



A study in insect parasitism, L. <). Howard 258 



A few facts about insects, R. W. Doane 260 



Report of the entomological section, C. P. (iillette 261 



Spray pumps aud spraying, W. Paddock 262 



FOODS — ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



Investigations of the potato as food, II. Condon and L. Bnssard 263 



A study of the digestibility of cocoauut butter and cream butter, Bourot and 



F.Jean 263 



I (ietary studies in New Mexico iu 1805, A. Goss 264 



The food of Italian university students. A. Serafini 265 



Explanation of the terms used in reporting the analysis of a feed stuff, A. A. 



Persons 274 



Analysis of the velvet bean (fruit), A. A. Persons 275 



Analyses of feeding stuffs, M. Weibull 266 



Analyses of spnrry hay and seed, B. Boggild 267 



Molasses pulp, a new feeding stuff, L. F. Nilsou 267 



