CONTENTS. Ill 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



Page. 



A bacterial disease of sweet corn, F. C. Stewart 1056 



Notes on Ophibolus graminis 1057 



Smut and, bunt, F. Maddox 1057 



A bacterial disease of the grape {La maladie d'Oleron , L. Ravaz 1057 



Description of Bacillus phaseoli, with some remarks on related species, K. F. 



Smith 1058 



Note on a tomato disease, S. A. Beach 1058 



Investigations concerning potato 6cab, Frank and Kriiger 1059 



A lily bulb disease, G. A. Massee 1059 



Eesults of oat smut in 1897, C. P. ( Hose •. 1060 



Conclusions of the Official Black Rot Commission of France, L. Degrully 1000 



Potato blights, I. P. Roberts and L. A. Clinton 1060 



Au experiment with apple rot in 1896, H. Garman 1062 



Spraying in 1897 to prevent gooseberry mildew, C. P. Close 1061 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Food habits of North American Sesihhe, W. BeutenmulleT 1063 



Two insect pests of 1896, J. H. Panton 1064 



Insect enemies of potatoes, I. P. Roberts and L. A. Clinton 1072 



Report of the entomological section, C. G. Gillette 1001 



Report of the entomologist, H. Carman 1072 



Report of the entomologist, II. A. .Morgan 1065 



The San Jose" scale in Ohio, F. M. "Webster 1066 



Notes on the treatment of the San Jose scale, with directions for winter work, 



W. 15. Alwood 1067 



A fungus disease of the San Josd scale. P H. Rolfs 1068 



Analyses of Paris green, W. C. Stubbs. 1072 



Notesonsome European hymenopterous parasites of the Hessian fly (Cecidomyia 



destructor) and other iusects, W. H. Ash mead 1068 



FOODS — ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



A digest of metabolism experiments, in Avhich the balance of income ami outgo 



was determined, W. O. At water and C. F. Langworthy 1073 



Dietary studies in New York City, W. O. Atwater and C. D. Woods 1074 



Report on the dietaries in nine institutions of the city of Boston, Ellen H. 



Richards and Sarah E. Wentworth 1075 



Experiments in fattening sheep, J. Crude 1075 



Feeding experiments with chicks and capons, W. P. Wheeler 1076 



DAIRY FARMING — DAIRYING. 



Feeding dairy cows, C. D. Smith 1081 



Further investigations on the milk production of goats, Kohlschmidt 1083 



The source of milk fat, W. II. Jordan and C. G. Jenter 1083 



Investigations on the composition of colostrum and the change to normal 



milk, F. G. Deissmann 1085 



Some conditions affecting churning with churns of different construction, E. J. 



von Stockhausen 1087 



VETERINARY SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 



Report on the results of the investigations by the commission for the study of 

 the foot and mouth disease ;it the Institute for Infectious Diseases at Berlin, 



Loerller and Frosch 1089 



