1032 EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Twenty-fourth Annual Report of North. Carolina Station, 1901 iXorfh 

 Carolina Sta. Rpt. 1901, pp. XX+12S). — This includes the organization list of the 

 station, general reports on the different lines of station work, a financial statement 

 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, and reprints of Bulletins 175-180 of the station, 

 on the following suljjects: Some new species of the genus Crataegus and notes on 

 some dichotomous Panicums (E. S. R., 12, p. 827), the relative values of some nitrog- 

 enous fertilizers (E. S. R., 13, p. 122), edible mushrooms of North Carolina (E. S. 

 E., 13, p. 225), the nature of pentosoids and their determination (E. S. R., 13, p. 321), 

 the composition of cotton-seed meal (E. S. R., 13, p. 479), and the sugar beet in 

 North Carolina (E. S. R., 13, p. 446). 



Fifteenth Annual Report of Tennessee Station, 1902 (Tennessee Sia. Rpt. 

 1902, pj). 16, fvjti ..'). — This includes the organization list <if tlie station, departmental 

 reports upon the work of the station during the year, a list of available station pub- 

 lications, and a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902. 



Nineteenth Annual Report of Wisconsin Station, 1902 ( Wisconsin Sta. Itpt. 

 1902, pp. 302). — This includes the organization list of the station; a report of the 

 director containing a brief description of the new agricultural building, notes on 

 changes in the station staff, brief statements concerning the control of fertilizers and 

 feeding stuffs and other lines of station work, and a list of available station publica- 

 tions; a brief biographical sketch of the late Prof. E. S. Goff; numerous articles 

 abstracted elsewhere; lists of exchanges and acknowledgments; and a financial 

 statement for the liscal year ended June 30, 1902. 



Proceedings of the sixteenth annual convention of the Association of 

 American Ag-ricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, held at Atlanta, 

 Ga., October 7-9, 1902, edited by A. C. Tkue, W. U. Be.vl, and 11. C. White 

 ( U. tS. Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Stations Bui. 128, pp. 144, pis. 2). — For a sum- 

 mary of the proceedings see E. S. R., 14, p. 313. 



On the establishment of agricultural experiment stations in Mexico, 

 S. BoNANSEA [Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Anto7iio Alzate," 17 {1902), No. 6, pp. 23-5- 

 249). — An argument in favor of the establishment of such stations and a statement 

 of lines of work they might usefully undertake. 



The promotion of agricultural science, W. H. Jordan {Proc. Soc. Prom. Agr. 

 Set. 1902, pp. 22-33). — This is the presidential address delivered at the twenty-third 

 annual meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, held at 

 Pittsburg, 1902. 



General agriculture, P. Diffloth {Agriculture gaurale. Paris: J. B. Bailliere 

 & Son, 1903, pp. Xll-r 416, figs. 102) . — This is one volume of the agricultural encyclo- 

 pedia published under the direction of G. Wery. The subjects discussed are agrol- 

 ogy, including study and analysis of the soil and the relation of the soil to plants; 

 cultivation of the soil, including reclamation, preparation, improvement, distribution 

 of fertilizers and soil amendments, seeding, maintenance, destruction of weeds, har- 

 vesMng, and preservation of crops; and rotation. 



Practical farming and gardening ( CJdcago and Xeic York: Rand, JlcXally X- 

 Co., 1902, pp. 500, figs. 223, chart 1). — This book consists of a series of chapters by 

 different authors, to which are appended extensive lists of publications bearing on 

 the special subjects discussed. In the several articles an attempt has been made to 

 present "a brief but sufficiently comprehensive introduction to modei'u agricultural 

 practice . . . . to give so clear an insight into the essentials of farming under uKjdern 

 conditions as will simplify and illuminate all future reading . . . and to tell the 

 man who wants to read on any given farm topic where he may find the book he 

 wants." The articles included are: Modern Ideas in Soil Treatment and Tillage, by 

 J. J. Edgerton ; Field Crops — Their Adaptations and Economic Relations, with Specific 

 Cultural Directions, by J. J. Edgerton; Vegetable Garden and Trucking Crops, by 

 A. T. Erwin; Fruit Culture and Forestry, by L. R. Taft; Important Injurious In- 



