CONTENTS. Ill 



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Objects and methods <>[ investigating physical properties of soils, L. J. Briggs. . 233 



Conservation of soil moisture, F. T. Shutt 233 



Canadian soils, F. T. Shutt 233 



Soils of the Upper Peninsula, A. C. Lane 233 



Soils of Mississippi — jilant food and productiveness, W. L. Hutchinson 233 



Bacteriological studies of drinking water, F. D. Chester 234 



Water from farm homesteads, F. T. Shutt 234 



FEKTILIZEKS. 



Basic superi)hosphate, its preparation and use as a manure, J. Hughes 234 



Twelve years' experiments with Thomas slag, A. Andouard 235 



Statistics of the manufacture and use of Thomas slag 235 



A fertilizer experiment with crude phosphate, F. W. Dafert 235 



Report of agricultural chemical laboratory, St. Petersburg, 1898, P. S. Kf)ssovich 235 



Nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia, H. Bachmann 235 



Tlie regulation of the trade in nitrate of soda, M. Ullmann 235 



Experiments on the action of potash fertilizers on upland moors, A. Baumann. 235 



The consumption of potash salts in 1900, Maizieres 235 



Fertilizing with lime refuse from gas works 235 



An analysis of the Leeds gas liquor, A. W. Cooke 235 



Fish fertilizers, Maizieres 235 



Manuring tlie soil, J. Fields 235 



Report on demonstration experiments with fertilizers in lower Austria, 1900. . 235 

 Organization and results of cooperative fertilizer experiments, Bavaria, H. 



Dubbers , 236 



Organization of fertilizer experiments, Bavaria 236 



Commercial fertilizers and humus, K. de Vrieze 236 



Fertilizers, F. T. Shutt 236 



Fertilizer inspection, C. D. Woods 236 



Fertilizer inspection in North Carolina, B. W. Kilgore 236 



Commercial fertilizers inspected, analyzed, and licensed in Ohio during 1900. . 236 



Commercial fertilizers, J. H. Stewart and B. H. Hite 236 



Analyses of licensed commercial fertilizers, 1901, R. H. Shaw and A. Vivian.. 236 



Draft bill to regulate the sale of agricultural fertilizers and feeding stuffs 236 



Recent contributions to knowledge relating to fertilizer industry, von Grueber. . 236 



FIELD CROPS. 



Field experiments, J. Atkinson 236 



Field experiments with farm crops, W. Saunders, J. H. Grisdale, W. T. Macoun, 



etal 237 



Field crops, vegetables, and fruits, L. M. Geismar 240 



Varieties of cereals giving the best results in East Germany, etc., Gisevius . . . 240 

 Range grass and forage plant experiments at Highmore, S. Dak., F. Lamaon- 



Scribner ^ 240 



The culture of winter barley, A. Schmid 240 



Seed corn and some standard varieties for Illinois, A. D. Shamel 240 



Experiments with American varieties of corn, E. Ramm and C. Momsen 240 



Researches on the utilization of furze, A. C. Girard 240 



Oats as grain and fodder, J. M. Bartlett 240 



Old and new varieties of oats and composition of straw and grain, A. P. 



Aitken 241 



Variety tests with oats, H. Biedenkopf 241 



Ramie congress in Paris, A. Schulte 241 



Correlative variation in rye, C. De Bruyker 241 



Sorghum in 1899 and 1900, C. L. Penny 242 



Soy beans in Kansas in 1900, H. M. Cottrell, D. H. Otis, and J. G. Haney 242 



Variety tests with sugar beets 242 



The world's exhibit of leaf tobacco at the Paris Exposition of 1900, M. L. 



Floyd 242 



Report on experiments on the manuring of turnips in 1899, R. P. Wright 243 



Successful wheat growing in semi-arid districts, M. A. Carleton 243 



A five-year rotation and subsoiling, G. Heuze 243 



Commercial plant introduction, J . G. Smith 243 



Report on plant breeding establishments, Edler 243 



The breeding of agricultural plants, C. Fruwirth 243 



