1132 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Briinn; experiment station uf the Lower Austrian aujricultural, horticultural, and 

 viticultural school, Feldsberg; agricultural chemical experiment and seed control 

 station, Gratz; seed control station of tlie agricultural secondary school, Kaaden; 

 agricultural chemical experiment station of the Royal Imperial Agricultural Society 

 of Carnithia, Klagenfurt; agricultural chemical experiment station for Carniola, 

 Laibach; agricultui-al experiment station, Lobositz; agricultural chemical experi- 

 ment station, St. ilichael-on-the-Etsch, Tyrol; agricultural chemical experiment 

 station of the agricultural council for Upper Austria, Otterbach, near Schiirding; 

 agricultural physiological experiment station of the Bohemian section of the agri- 

 cultural council for the Kingdom of Bohemia at the Royal Imperial Bohemian 

 Technical High School, Prague; experiment station for the brewing industry in 

 Bohemia, Prague; experiment station for the sugar industry, Prague; Royal Bohe- 

 mian Agricultural Academy, Tetschen-Liebwerd; experiment station for flax culture 

 and the manufacture of flax products, Trautenau; agricultural botanical experiment 

 and seed control station, Troppau, and agricultural botanical experiment station. 

 Tabor. 



Crop Reporter {U. S. Dept. Ar/r., Division of , Statistics Crop Reporter, Vol. 4, ^os. 

 10-12, pp. S each). — These numbers are made up as usual of statistical information 

 on the condition of crops in the United States and foreign countries, and are the 

 issues for February, March, and April, 1903. 



Our foreign trade in agricultural products, 1902, F. 11. Hitchcock ( U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., Dirisioii of Foreign Marki'l-'< C'ii-c. ..'■'>, pji. 24). — This is issued as a supple- 

 ment to Bulletin 27 (E. S. R., 14, p. 304), and gives statistics on the imports and 

 exports of the United States during 1902. As compared with 1901 the agricultural 

 imports increased from $391,931,051 to §413,744,557 and the agricultural exports 

 dei-reased from $951,628,331 to 8857,113,533. 



The cotton-oil industry in America, D. A. Tompkins {Cassier's Mag., 24 {190S), 

 Xo. 1, pp. 4^-34, figs. 10). — The history and the jn-esent status and importance of the 

 industry are discussed. The article contains a tliagram showing the cycle of produc- 

 tion, consumption, and land restoration in case of cotton. 



Utilization of wood waste, E. Hubbard, trans, by ]VI. J. Salter {^London: Scott, 

 Greemcood ct Co., 1902, pp. XVI^192, figs. 50). — This is a translation of the second, 

 revised and enlarged, German edition of this work, which contains, besides general 

 remarks on the utilization of sawdust, chapters dealing with the use of sawdust as 

 fuel with and without simultaneous recoverv of charcoal and the products of distilla- 

 tion; the manufacture of oxalic acid, ethyl alcohol, dyes (organic sulphids and mer- 

 capto dyes); artificial wood and plastic compositions and wood compositions for 

 molded decorations from wood waste; the employment of sawdust in the preparation 

 of blasting powders and gunpowders, in briquettes, in the ceramic industry as an 

 addition to mortar; the manufacture of paper pulp from wood; the production of 

 wood wool, and miscellaneous applications of sawdust and wood refuse. 



TJnirrigated lands of eastern Colorado, J. E. Payn'e( Colorado Sla. Bid. 77, pp. 16, 

 figs. 4). — The results of observations made by the author during 7 years' study of the 

 soil, climate, natural vegetation, water supply, settlement, cultivated crops, and live 

 stock industry of the Great Plains of eastern Colorado are recorded. "Stock raising 

 must be the basis of all successful agricultural efforts in this region, and crop raising 

 should be generally attempted as an aid to stock raising." 



The Bermuda Islands; an account of their scenery, climate, productions, 

 physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discov- 

 ery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man, 

 A. E. Verrill {Xew Haven, Conn.: Autlior, 1903, pp. X-\-54S, pis. 40, figs. 280).— The 

 purpose of this volume is to give a convenient and comprehensive account ot the 

 history, natural features, and productions of the islands. It is intended for the use 

 of tourists, students, and the inhabitants of the islands. The subjects considered 



