CONTENTS. Ill 



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Sorghum as a forage crop, T. A. Williams 348 



Fertilizer analyses of castor-bean plant, G. L. Holler ami . I. Fields 343 



Potato culture, I. P. Roberts and L. A. Clinton 343 



The si mar beet : Culture, seed development, manufacture, anil si a lis ties, li. \V. 



Wiley 344 



Sugar beets, X. E. Wilson 319 



Report of field experiments with tobacco in Massachusetts, 1893-96, ('. A. 



(ioessiiianii 345 



Experiments with wheat, 1896-'97, G. E. Morrow and J. II. Bone . 346 



Loss by exposure of corn stover and teosinte, G. L. Holter and J. Fields 31b' 



HORTICULTURE. 



Experiments with fertilizers on celery, B. M. Duggar and L..H. Bailey 350 



Suggestions for chicory culture, T. L. Lyon 357 



Vegetables, old and new, L. R. Taffc, ILL. Gladden, andM. L. Dean 350 



Garden crops, C. V. Fox 357 



How to grow mushrooms, W. Falconer -• 357 



Experiments with fertilizers on garden crops, C. A. Gocssmann 357 



Compilation of analyses of fruits and garden crops, 11. D. Haskins 357 



The peach industry in Pennsylvania, G. ('. Butz 351 



Notes upon plums for western New York, S. D. Willard and L. II. Bailey 351 



Report of the horticultural depart meat. . I. Troop 352 



Fruit tests at South Haven, T. T. Lyon 353 



The Loganberry, L. F. Kinney 353 



Strawberries under glass, C. E. Hunn and L. II. Ba i ley 353 



Small fruit trials at the college, L. R. Taft and II. P. Gladden 351 



Wind-breaks, F. W. Card 354 



Report of the horticulturist, S. M. Finery 355 



Chrysanthemums in 1896, L. II. Bailey and W. Miller 356 



A talk about dahlias. W. Miller 356 



A second account of sweet peas, A. P. Wyman and M. G. Kaina 356 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Two destructive celery blights, 15 M. Duggar 358 



A disease of currant canes, E. J. Durand 359 



Scab of potatoes, W. P. Brooks 360 



Report of the horticulturist, S. T. Maynard 360 



Fungiroid, W. P. Brooks 360 



Corrosive sublimate for potato scab 363 



Treatment for smut in wheat, barley, and oats 363 



ENTOMOLOI.Y. 



The currant stem girdler and the raspberry cane maggot, M. V. Slingerland. . . 363 



The army worm in New York, M. V. Slingerland 365 



The pine geometer moth (Fidonia piniaria), R. S. MacDougall 366 



The pistol case bearer in western New York, M. V. Slingerland 367 



The spruce gall louse. C. H. Fernald 368 



Some insects injurious to stored grain, F. II. Chittenden 369 



Insects affecting the cotton plant, L. O. Howard 370 



Sonic injurious orchard insects, E. E. Bogue 371 



Notes on scale insects, T. D. A. Cockerel! 3C9 



On a new Myxosporidium of the family of Glugeideae, L. Leger 369 



Report of the entomologist, C. H. Fernald 371 



Analyses of insecticides, H. D, Haskins ... 372 



Bug Heath, W. P. Brooks .,..,..,..,, . . , 372 



