CONTENTS. Ill 



Monthly Weather Review, Vol. XXIX, Nos. 1-8 117 



Kepcirt of iiiete<)r()l(ijiic'iil oonncil for year ending March Ml, l!H)(), London 118 



The application of nieteorolo^n' to aj^yculture, J. Vandervaeren 118 



INIeteoroloudcal ol)servati(.ns, I'lKM), L. (;. Carpenter, R. E. Trimble, ct al 118 



INIeteorologiral rei>ort, I'tah, J. Drydcii 118 



Barometers ami the measurement of atmospheric pressure, C. F. Marvin 118 



The mean diurnal variation of temperature at Tacuhaya, M. INloreno y Anda . 119 



Protection against hail, J. Roberts 119 



Agronomic charts and agricultural situation, Canton of Redon, G. V. Lechartier. 119 



A IK WATEK SOILS. 



On the elimination of methane in the atmosphere, M. Urbaiu 119 



Evaporatii m from water surfaces, L. (1. Carpenter 119 



]\lineral- water imUistry , 119 



Chemical comi)osition of soils of Cape Colony, C. F. Juritz 119 



Humus and carbon in cidti vated soils, A. Pagnoul 121 



Investigations on the cohesiveness of soils, etc., S. von Piedzicki 121 



Soil temperatures, L. (4. ('arpenter 121 



Value of the incidental increment of plant food in soils 121 



FKKTILIZEKS. 



Sul)stitution of soda f()r potash in plant growtli, W. H. Jordan, C. G. Jenter.. 121 



Relative values of some nitrogenous fertilizers, W. A. Withers, G. S. Fraps .. 122 



The assimilation of free nitrogen by soil bacteria, etc., J. Kiihn 123 



Pot experiments in 1899, J. llanamann 123 



Comparative tests of fertilizing value of two new phosphates, Grinnn 123 



Green manure and phosphorite as a fertilizer, A. N. Englehart 124 



Fertilizing value of steamed bone meal, F. W. Dafert 124 



Fish scrap fertilizers, W. H. Heileman 124 



Commercial fertilizers, M. A. Scovell, A. M. Peter, and H. E. Curtis 124 



AnaU'ses of commercial fertilizers, H. B. McDonnell et al 124 



Ana^'ses of fertilizers, C. A . tToessmann 124 



Registration and analyses of fertiUzers, B. W. Kilgore 124 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers, J. Hamilton and W. Frear 124 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers, J. L. Hills, C. H. Jones, et al 124 



FIELD CROPS. 



Agricultural investigations in Alaska, 1900, C. C. Georgeson 125 



Influence of water content of soil on plants, C. von Seelhorst 125 



Influence of Avater content of soil and fertilizers on yield and composition of 



Italian rye grass and red clover, C. von Seelhorst et al 126 



Mixed herl)age of permanent grass lands, J. B. Lawes and J. H. Gilbert 127 



Alfalfa; methods of culture, etc., E. B. Voorhees and C. B. Lane 128 



Bro)nns inermis, F. L. Watrons, II. II. Gritfin, and J. E. Payne 128 



Culture tests of cereals, Edler 128 



Corn culture, J. F. Duggar 128 



Cooperative experiments with cotton in 1899 and 1900, J. F. Duggar 129 



Linseed and flax 129 



Crop and forage notes, 1900, F. C. Burtis 129 



Experiments on the manuringof rye grass and clover hay, 1899, R. P. Wright.. 130 



Influence of manures on l)otanical I'omposition of grassland, W. Somerville.. 130 



Culture experiments with forage plants, A. 8empolo\vski 130 



Cultivation of fodder crops 130 



The present condition of Russian hop culture 130 



Changes in conipositifni of mangels (luring storage, N. H. J. Miller 130 



Variety tests and fertilizer experiments with fodder beets, A. Arnstadt 131 



Experiments on comj)arative merits of varieties of oats, R. P. Wrigiit and 



A. N. M<- Alpine 131 



The soy bean as a forage and seed crop, C. S. Phelps 132 



Hill planting of sugar beets, 10. IMuchet 132 



How the beet-sugar industry is growing, R. S. Baker 132 



The production of sugar beets in the Province of Saxony, etc., Schulze 132 



German beet-sugar industry, G. H. Muri)hy 132 



Prospects of beet-sugar jiroduction in Siberia 132 



Geographical distribution of the culture of sugar cane 132 



