MISCELLANEOUS. 411 



and drawings of a large number of wheels now in use in California, Colorado,. 

 Idaho, Utah, and Washington, with notes on their good and bad features. 



The importance of the water supply in agriculture, Strecker (Fiihling's 

 Landw. Ztg., 53 {1904), Nos. 10, pp. 357-300; 11, pp. 398-407). — A general discussion 

 of the importance of a water supply for power purposes, domestic uses and watering 

 stock, ami irrigation. 



Machinery at the general agricultural exposition of Paris, M. Ringelmann 

 (Jour. Agr. Prat., n. ser., 7 {1904), Nos. 11, pp. 856-359, figs. 6; 12, pp. 388-392, figs. 12; 

 13, pp. 421-426, figs. 9; 14, pp. 448-452, figs. 9). — Accounts are given of traction motors, 

 cultivators, seed and fertilizer distributors, weeders, spray machines, harvesting and 

 thrashing machines, mills for grinding, pasteurizers, pumps, centrifuges, hail protec- 

 tion cannon, and miscellaneous implements and machines. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Thirteenth Annual Report of Oklahoma Station, 1904 {Oklahoma Sta. Rpt. 

 1904, PP- 15-68). — This includes a report of the director; a summary of the press 

 bulletins issued during the year, meteorological data noted elsewhere, and a financial 

 statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904. 



The press bulletins are to a certain extent a repetition of matter printed in the 

 regular bulletins of the station and deal with a variety of subjects, including the fol- 

 lowing: Wheat experiments, pasturing wheat, delayed germination of wheat, the oat 

 crop, seed for spring crops, choosing seed corn, comparative yields of Karir corn 

 and Indian corn, forage rape, Bermuda grass, ponds for stock water, steer-feeding 

 experiments, preventing blackleg, cattle mange or Texas itch, lumpy jaw, hog chol- 

 era, plant windbreaks, fruit varieties, planting red cedar seed, Arbor Day, methods 

 of combating the Hessian fly, checks for migrating caterpillars, the webworm on 

 cotton and alfalfa, and a disease of the privet. New matter contained on the above 

 subjects has been noted elsewhere in this issue. 



Sixteenth Annual Report of Massachusetts Station, 1903 {Massachusetts Sta. 

 Rpt. 1903, pp. 175). — This contains the organization list of the station; a financial 

 statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903; reports of heads of departments; 

 and miscellaneous articles abstracted elsewhere. 



Australia as a food-producing country, C. C. Lance {Jour. Dept. Agr. West. 

 Australia, 9 {1904), No. 4, PP- 255-272). — The resources of Australia are described 

 and discussed. 



Wages and cost of living ( U. S. Dept. Coin, ami Latmr, Bureau of Labor Bui. 53, 

 pp. 703-932). — As shown by data regarding the incomes and expenditures of 2,567 

 families, collected in 33 States during the year 1901, the average expenditure for food 

 was $326.90 per family, or 42.54 per cent of the expenditure for all purposes. Among 

 other data the article contains statistics of retail prices of the more important foods,, 

 wages, hours of labor, etc. 



