290 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



STATISTICS— MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twelfth Annual Report oi Delaware Station, 1900 ( Delmrare Sta. Rpt. 1900, 

 pp. 259) . — This includes a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, 

 the organization list of tlie station, and reports of the heads of deiiartments, includ- 

 ing a number of articles abstracted elsewhere, and a reprint of Bulletin 51 of the 

 station on pedigreed sorghum as a source of cane sugar (E. S. R., 13, p. 42). 



Thirteenth Annual Report of Louisiana Stations, 1900 {Louisiana StuK. Rpt. 

 1900, pp. 2J) . — An account is given of the work at the Sugar Station at Auduljon 

 Park, the State Station at Baton Rouge, and the North Louisiana Station at Calhoun. 

 The report also contains the organization lists of the stations and a financial state- 

 ment for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900. 



The Upper Peninsula Experiment Station, C. D. Smith {Michigan Sfa. Bui. 

 180, pp. 4-S). — This contains tlie act of the State legislature establishing the Upper 

 Peninsula Experiment Station, a description of the station farm, including an analj'- 

 sis of the underlying rock, and a brief outline of the work already accomplished. 



Bulletins of Alabama Station {Index to Vol. YIII, Bids. 108-112, pp. 191-201). 



Finances — meteorology — index {Maine Sta. Bui. 69, pp. 191-228+8). — This con- 

 tains a list of acknowledgments, meteorological observations noted elsewhere, a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, an index to the annual 

 reports for 1897 to 1900, the organization list of the station, and brief notes on the 

 aim and work of the station l:)y the director. 



Experimental work in agriculture, C. Schreiber (7?er. Gen. Agron. [Lourain}, 

 10 {1901) Xo. 1, pp. 21-29). — This article discusses the work of the experiment 

 stations, the experimental fields, and the fields of demonstration as they exist in 

 Belgium. 



Yearbook of the, Department of Agriculture, 1900 ( U. S. Dept. Agr. Year- 

 book, 1900, pp. 888, pis. 87, figs. 88). — This includes a general report by the Secretary 

 on the operations of the Department during the year, 30 semipopular articles on 

 miscellaneous subjects noted elsewhere, a brief biographical sketch of William Saun- 

 ders, and an appendix containing the usual summary of useful information on vari- 

 ous subjects of interest to farmers. A new feature of the appendix is the publication 

 of requirements for admission to the agricultural departments of the land-grant 

 colleges, and the cost of attendance. 



Crop Reporter ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of St(distics Crop Reporter, Vol. 3, Xos. 

 1-3, pp. S each).^-Th.em numbers contain statistical data on the condition of crops 

 in the different States and Territories on May 1, June 1, and July 1, 1901, and a 

 number of articles on miscellaneous subjects, including the following: Production of 

 oats and barley in Russia since 1883, agricultural organizations in France, the cotton 

 crop of India, the wheat crop of India in 1901, the intercontinental wheat trade, 

 principal grain crops of Austria in 1900, principal food crops of Bulgaria in 1898 and 



1899, the corn crop of Mexico, the crop reporting service of the Division of Statistics 

 of the Department of Agriculture, the farmers' interest in foreign crop reports, and 

 production of maize and millet in Russia .since 1883. 



The cotton crop of 1899-1900, J. L. Watkixs ( f ^ S. Dept. Agr., Division of 

 Statistics Bui. 19, pp. 46). — This bulletin is the customary annual report presenting 

 statistical data on the cotton crop of the different States and Territories as shown by 

 the movement of the crop from the plantation to points of export or consumption. 

 In addition, statistical information is given on the growth of cotton spinning in the 

 South, the sea island cotton crop of 1899-1900, the value of the cotton crop of 1899- 



1900, the cost of picking cotton, exports and imports of cotton, consumption of 

 American cotton by foreign countries, the world's cotton spindles and their con- 

 sumption, the cotton production and acreage since 1894, exports of cotton from Bra- 

 zilian ports, movement of cotton from Asiatic to European Russia, the Mexican crop 



