616 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



publications received and statistics relative to organization, expenditures, etc. ; reports 

 of the experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, noted elsewhere; and a 

 review of the irrigation and nutrition investigations of this Office, also noted else- 

 where. 



Fifteenth Annual Report of Kansas Station, 1902 (A'a».s».v ,Sta. Rpt. 1902, 'pj). 

 XXX 111^^5 1-356). — This contains the organization list of the station; a financial 

 statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902; a list of station publications; a 

 review of the work of the different departments during the year; an account of the 

 establishment of the Fort Hays branch station, with a statement of the lines of work 

 in progress; text of the State law relating to the destruction of gophers and prairie 

 dogs, with notes on the work done along this line; and an account of cooperative 

 experiments in range improvements. 



Fifteenth Annual Report of Mississippi Station, 1902 {Mississippi Sta. Rpt. 

 1902, jyp. 35). — This contains the organization list of the station, a financial state- 

 ment for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902, and reports of the director and heads 

 of departments. Reprints of l>ulletins 69-77 of the station on the following subjects 

 are appended: Texas fever (E. S. R., 13, p. 995); records of station cows, feeding 

 dairy cows (E. S. R., 13, p. 984); milk fever (E. S. R., 13, p. 995); anthrax (E. S. R., 

 13, p. 994); tick fever or murrain in Southern cattle (E. S. R., 14, p. 397); some 

 mosquitoes of Mississippi and how to deal with them (E. S. R., 14, p. 375); straw- 

 berry culture in Mississippi (E. S. R., 14, p. 356); beef cattle (E. S. R., 14, p. 483); 

 and analyses of commercial fertilizers (E. S. R., 14, p. 558). 



Annual Report of New Jersey Stations, 1901 {Neio Jersey Bias. Rpt. 1901, pp. 

 Xl-^587) . — This includes the organization lists of the stations, a financial state- 

 ment of the State Station for the year ended October 31, 1901, and of the College 

 Station for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901; a report of the director reviewing 

 the different lines of station work; and reports of the chemists, assistant in soil 

 chemistry and bacteriology, assistant in horticulture, assistant in dairy husbandry, 

 biologist, botanist, and entomologist noted elsewhere. 



Sixth, report of extension work, J. Craig {New York Cornell Sta. Bui. 206, pp. 

 125-156, figs. 10). — This report covers the period from January, 1900, to July, 1902, 

 and is in continuation of the report published as Bulletin 159 of the station (E. S. 

 R., 10, p. 1098). It deals with the work of instruction and investigation carried on 

 by the college of agriculture and the experiment station under the provisions of the 

 State law relating to the promotion of agricultural knowledge. Special reports by 

 those cooperating in the work are included as follows: The Nature Study Movement, 

 by L. H. Bailey; Junior Naturalists — the Work with the Children, by J. W. Spencer; 

 Lectures in Nature Study, by Anna B. Comstock; Home Nature Study Course, by 

 Mary R. Miller; Cooperative Experiments in General Agriculture, by J. L. Stone; 

 Work of the Entomological Division, by M. V. Slingerland; and Dairying and 

 Animal Industry, by H. H. Wing. 



A review of the foreign literature relating to agriculture, soil manage- 

 ment, and plant culture for the year 1900, T. Westerm.\xn {Separate from 

 Tidsshr. Landbr. Planteavl, 8 {1902), pp. 147). — References, extracts, and summaries 

 are given of a large amount of the literature relating to the topics indicated in the 

 title. The titles are arranged alphabetically by authors under the different chapters, 

 the principal ones being air and soil, soil improvement and management, chemical 

 composition, nutrition, and improvement of agricultural plants, plant culture arranged 

 by crops, agricultural education, experiment stations, etc. 



Yearbook of the natural sciences, 1901-02, M. Wildermann {Jahrb. Naturiv., 

 17 {1901-2), pp. 533, figs. ,5i') .—This volume contains brief abstracts of the more 

 important literature published during the past year on physics, chemistry, applied 

 mechanics, meteorology, physical geography, astronomy, mathematical geography, 

 zoology, botany, forestry, agriculture, mineralogy, geology, anthropology, ethnology, 

 sanitation, medicine, physiology, and industrial technology. 



