518 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Report of work at McNeill Branch Station for 1903, E. B. Ferris (Missis- 

 sippi Sta. Bid. 83, pp. 34)- — A general statement is made regarding the work, stuck, 

 and equipment of the branch station. Physical and chemical analyses of the soil at 

 the station are given, as well as analyses of 9 commercial fertilizers used in compara- 

 tive field tests. The results of experiments with a number of field, garden, and 

 orchard crops, and of feeding experiments with steers are noted elsewhere in this 

 number. The bulletin also contains a summary of the temperature and precipitation 

 during each month of the year. 



Fourteenth Annual Report of Utah Station, 1903 ( Utah Sta. Rpt. 190S, pp. 

 XLII). — An outline is given of the work of the various departments of the station 

 during the year, with a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903, 

 and an index to the annual report and the bulletins published during the year 

 1902-3. An account of cooperative experiments carried on with this Department for 

 the control of sugar-beet disease is noted elsewhere in this number, as is also an 

 account of some plants supposed to be poisonous to stock, and of work in the control 

 of insects. 



Yields of the principal cereals in 1903 (Stat. Jahrb.K. K. Ackerbau Min., 1903, 

 No. 1, pp. 41-54)- — Statistics on the production of wheat, rye, barley, oats, and corn 

 in Austria for the season of 1903 are given. 



Mixed farming at Wagga Experimental Farm, W. H. Clarke (Agr. Gaz. 

 Netv South Wales, 15 (1904), No. 4, pp- 301-312, figs. 9). — Data are given regarding 

 the feeding of sheep, turkeys, and pigs, raising of horses for farm requirements, and 

 the ensiling of natural grasses, herbage, and cultivated crops. 



Memoranda of plans for arid farm investigations ( Utah Sta. Circ. 1, pp. 63, 

 dgms.6). — This circular contains the plans for proposed experiments to determine 

 the possibility of growing crops without irrigation. Appropriations for this purpose 

 were made by the State, and the work was placed under the direction of the experi- 

 ment station. Six farms have been selected in different parts of the State and the 

 work to be done on each one is outlined and indicated upon a plan. General 

 instructions to the foremen and employees of the farm are also given. 



Farmer's cyclopedia of agriculture, E. V. Wilcox and C. B. Smith (New York: 

 Orange Judd Co., 1904, pp. XXIV + 619, figs. 477). — A handbook of agriculture, 

 horticulture, animal husbandry, dairying, and the like, written in popular style, and 

 intended as a reference book for farmers and others interested in agricultural practice. 



The volume is divided into eight parts, treating respectively of field crops, garden 

 crops, fruits and nuts, cattle and dairying, other live stock, poultry, fertilizers, soils, 

 drainage and irrigation, and miscellaneous matters. The articles under each sec- 

 tion are arranged alphabetically on the plan of an encyclopedia, and are short and 

 concise in treatment. While the style is popular, free use has been made of the 

 work of the experiment stations and this Department, and the results have been 

 drawn upon largely in discussing improved methods of agricultural practice. Indeed, 

 the book may be regarded to quite a large extent as a concise summary of the more 

 recent literature of agriculture published by the various agencies for agricultural 

 experiment and investigation in this country. 



The scope of the work is quite broad, including the treatment of plant and animal 

 diseases, the methods of combating injurious insects, various classes of agricultural 

 organizations and institutions, agricultural industries of minor importance, period- 

 ical and other literature relating to agriculture, and other matters of general interest, 

 as well as questions relating to agricultural management. The large number of 

 illustrations add materially to the value and interest of the volume, and the detailed 

 indexes, arranged under both scientific and common names, enable ready reference 

 to any of the topics treated. 



