MISCELLANEOUS. 509 



the average value for the 5 years covered by this report was $827,566,147. A similar 

 statistical report for the years 1896-1900 was published as F5ulletin 25 of the Section 

 (E. S. R., 13, p. 494). 



Agricultural returns for Great Britain for 1901 (London: Board of Agriculture, 

 pp. 27). — Tables showing the estimated total jiroduce and average yield per acre of 

 the principal crops, with particulars for each county of Great Britain and a summary 

 for the United Kingdom. 



Crop statistics for the Northwest Territories in 1901 {Rpt. Dept. Agr. North- 

 u'est Territories, 1902, pp. 25-32). — A full account is given of the manner in which 

 crop statistics are obtained. A table shows the total and average yield and the 

 acreage of wheat, oats, and barley for 1898-1901, inclusive. 



By-products of the starch industry in the United States {Jour. Soc. Arts, 50 

 {1902), No. 2592, pp. 737, 738). — A brief note on by-products obtained in the manu- 

 facture of starch from cassava, potatoes, corn, wheat, and rice. 



The utilization of wastes and by-products, H. G. Kittredge {Twelfth Census 

 United States, Census Bui. 190, lyp. 26). — A general discussion of the uses made of the 

 by-products and wastes of various industries, as follows: Iron and steel, lumber and 

 timber, paper making, slaughterhouse products, woolen and cotton industries, cotton 

 oil, leather, dyeing, silk, starch, old rubber, breweries, tin, mussel shells, glass, ashes^ 

 corn pith, glycerin, printers' ink rollers, powdered milk, and corn oil. 



Notes on miscellaneous work, P. Boxame {Rap. An. Sta. Agron. [Mauritius'], 

 1901, pp. 25-37). — Brief notes are given on the character of the season of 1901-2 in 

 Mauritius as affecting the yield and quality of crops, especially sugar cane; the ferti- 

 lizing value of organic nitrogen from different sources; the composition and food value 

 of corn meal; the composition of twigs of Typhonodorum lendleyanum ; and the damage 

 caused by rats on sugar plantations with means of prevention. 



Index to the yearbooks of the TJ. S. Department of Agriculture, 1894- 

 1900, C. H. Greathouse ( V. S. Dept. Agr. Division <f Fuhllc-ations Bui. 7,i^p. 196). — 

 This is a combined subject and author index and is essentially a continuation of an 

 index to the annual reports of the Secretary of Agriculture for 1837 to 1893 published 

 as Bulletin 1 of the Division. 



