MISCELLANEOUS. 821 



Granaries of the General Transportation Company of Paris, F. Main {Jour. 

 Agr. Prat., n. ser., 5 {1903), No. 4, PP- 118-120, figs. 2). — Describes granaries arranged 

 so as to secure mechanical stirring of the grain, constructed on the same principle as 

 those previously noted (E. S. R., 14, p. 196). 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Thirteenth. Annual Report of Arizona Station, 1902 {Arizona Sta. Rpt. 1902, 

 pp. 233-270). — This includes the organization list, a financial statement for the fiscal 

 year ended June 30, 1902, and reports of the director and heads of departments noted 

 in part elsewhere. 



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

 pp. 24)- — This contains the organization list and reports of the director and members 

 of the station staff. A list of station publications issued during the year, acknowl- 

 edgments, and a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902, are 

 included. 



Fifteenth Annual Report of New York Cornell Station, 1902 {New York 

 Cornell Sta. Rpt. 1902, pp. XLIII-f-433). — The report proper includes the organi- 

 zation list of the station, brief reports of the director and heads of departments, 

 and a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902. Appendix I con- 

 tains reprints of Bulletins 194-202 of the station on the following subjects: The 

 Hessian fiy — its ravages in New York in 1901 (E. S. R., 13, p. 572), further observa- 

 tions upon ropiness in milk and cream (E. S. R., 13, p. 686), fourth report on potato 

 culture (E. S. R., 13, p. 734), investigations concerning the germicidal action in 

 cow's milk (E. S. R., 13, p. 783), orchard cover crops (E. S. R., 13, p. 951), sepa- 

 rator skimmed milk as food for pigs (E. S. R., 13, p. 1079), muskmelons (E.S. R., 

 14, p. 40), buying and using commercial fertilizers (E. S. R., 14, p. 23), and trajj 

 lanterns, or "moth-catchers" (E. S. R., 14, p. 272). Appendix II contains a detailed 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901. Apjiendix III contains 

 a circular of information on the reading course for farmers; reprints of Reading 

 Lessons for Farmers' Wives Nos. 3-5; Home Nature Study Course Nos. 16-24; 

 nine numbers of the Junior Naturalist ^Monthly issued during 1901 and 1902; and 

 a syllabus of lectures on nature study. 



Annual report of the director, H. P. Armsby {Pennsylvania Sta. Bui. 61, pp. 

 12). — -The different lines of station work are briefly outlined, mention is made of 

 needed equipment, and the income of the station from different sources is compared 

 with that of a number of other stations. 



Fifteenth Annual Report of South Carolina Station, 1902 [Soutli Carolina 

 xSta. Rpt. 1902, pp. 20). — This includes the organization list of the station, a financial 

 statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902, departmental reports, and a brief 

 synopsis of the bulletins issued during the year. The report of the chemist contains 

 a summary of the analyses of fertilizers inspected during 1901 and 1902. 



Crop Reporter {U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of Statistics Crop Reporter, 4 {1902), Nos.. 

 7, 8; 4 {190S), No. 9, pp. 8 each) . — These numbers contain statistical information on 

 the condition of crops in the United States and foreign countries. No. 7 includes a 

 report on crop conditions in the different States and Territories on November 1, 1902. 

 No. 9 includes a letter from the Secretary of Agriculture to Congress upon the advis- 

 ability of consolidating with the Weather Bureau the work of gathering reports and 

 statistics of crops. Consolidation is considered inadvisable. 



Statistics of agriculture {Twelfth Census United States, Census Rj)ts., vols. 5 {Agri- 

 culture, pt. 1), pp. r('XXXVI+767, pis. 19; 6 {Agriculture, pt. 2), pp.880; pis. 19).— 

 Part 1 deals with farms, live stock, and animal products, and part 2 with crops and 

 irrigation. The statistics relating to special lines of agriculture are noted elsewhere 

 in this issue. The agricultural progress in the United States during the last 50 years 



