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Directions for making local fertilizer experiments, K. Hansen 648 



The use of plaster in agriculture, L. Grandeau 648 



Commercial fertilizers, E. H. Jenkins et al 649 



Fertilizer inspection, C. U. Woods and J. M. Bartlett 649 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers and manurial substances, C. A. Goessmann. 649 



Composition of waste materials of farm, orchard, and vineyard, ( ;. E. Colby. . 649 



Use of commercial fertilizers, ( i. M. Tucker 649 



Fraud in phosphatic slags, IMaizieres - - 649 



The phosphate industry in 1902, C. C. Schnatterbeck 649 



FIELD CROPS. 



Report of the North Louisiana Experiment Station, 1901, D. N. Barrow 650 



Fixation of atmospheric nitrogen ))y alfalfa on prairie soil, C. G. Hopkins ... 650 



Experiments with barley, Remy 650 



Berseem, 1). (i. Fairchild 651 



ExiH-riments with white clover, P. P. Dehcrain and E. Demoussy 651 



Varieties of wliite clover, C. Fruwirth 652 



INlanual of corn judging, A. I). Shamel 652 



Analyses of hop cones and hop vines, G. E. Colby 652 



Experiments with yellow lui)ines, P. P. Deherain and E. Demoussy 652 



^'ariety tests of oats and i)otatoes, G. C. Watson and E. H. Hess 652 



Saltbushes in the Southern Coast Range, C. H. Shinn 653 



Analyses of sugar beets, M. E. Jaffa 653 



The beet sugar industry in Victoria, A. N. Pearson 653 



Localization of phosphates in the sugar cane, C. H. G. Sprankling 653 



Seedling and other canes in the Leeward Islands, 1901-2 653 



Seedling and other canes at Barl)ados, 1902 653 



Report of agricultural work, 1900-1902, J. P. d'Allniqueniue and J. R. Bovell. 654 



Origin of starch in the wheat grain, P. P. Deherain and C. Dupont 654 



HORTICULTURE. 



Specific variation in the graft of asexual hybridization, L. Daniel 654 



Curious results obtained in grafting, L. Daniel 656 



Specific variations in the graft, G. T. Grignan - 656 



Specific variations caused by grafting 656 



Increase in yield of crops obtained by electrical treatment, S. Lemstn'uii 656 



(xrowing vegetables under cloth ^ 656 



Sewage and night soil or stable manure and commercial fertilizers for vege- 

 tables, J. P. Wagner 657 



List of American varieties of vegetables, 1901 and 1902, W. W\ Tracy, jr 657 



The fog fruit or Lippia iiodiflura as an economic j^lant, J. J. Thornber 657 



Ginger, ( 4 . Landes 658 



Propagation of the mango, G. W. ( )liver 658 



The culture of onions in Holland, A. l^'ion 658 



Peas put to the test, E. S. Brown 658 



IVIanurial exi)eriments with peas - 658 



Cultivation of pepper, V. Sebastian 658 



Forcing tomatoes, A. C. Beal 658 



Aggregate atavic mutation of the tomato, C. A. White 660 



1^/lible native bulbs, E. Braunton 660 



Orchard studies. — I. The fruit plantation. Pome fruits, W. B. Alwood 660 



Climatic influences on chemical composition of apples, R. Otto 660 



Astrakhans exported successfully - . 660 



The book of pears and plums, E. Bartrum 660 



Fruiting of the hardy orange 661 



( 'omparative examination of shipping navel oranges, G. E. Colby 661 



Diagrams for packing citrus fruits, H. H. Hume 661 



Smyrna tigs, G. E. Collty 662 



Culture and preparation of cai-ao in Trinidad, A. Elot 662 



The tea plant, F. Coulombier 662 



Tests of potash fertilizers on vines, E. Marre 662 



The preparation of Malaga raisins, V. Sebastian 662 



Expedition to Central and South America, P. Preuss 662 



First year in tropical agriculture, G . Saussine 663 



