396 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Seventh. Annual Report of Montana Station, 1900 (MotiUma Sta. BvJ. 28, 

 pp. 24)- — Reports of the director and headn of departments review at some length the 

 different lines of station work during the year. The organization list of the station, 

 a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, a list of exchanges, and 

 a suliject hst <if station bulletins are included. The reports of the horticulturist and 

 agriculturist are noted elsewhere. 



Twelfth. Annual Report of New Hampshire Station, 1900 [New Hampshh-e 

 Sta. Bui. 79, jjp. 38). — This includes a financial statement for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1900, reports of the vice-director and heads of departments, parts of which 

 are noted elsewhere, for the year ended October 31, 1900, and a list of station publi- 

 cations available for distribution. 



Director's report for 1900, W. H. Jordan {Neir York State Sta. Bui. 195, pp. 

 383-398). — The different lines of station work, with the results obtained, are reviewed 

 at some length. Notes are also given on the station staff, institute and inspection 

 work, cooperative experiments, etc. A Ust i >f 1 )ulletins pu1 )lished in 1900 is appended. 



Eleventh Annual Report of North Dakota Station, 1900 {North Dakota Sta. 

 Rpt. 1900, pp. 119). — A brief report on station work by the director, departmental 

 reports, parts of which are abstracted elsewhere, and a financial statement for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1900. Included in the report of the chemist and not noted 

 elsewhere in this i.«sue are analyses of 3 samples of connnercial fertilizers, 14 samples 

 of clays and cements, and 2 samples of lime rock. 



Statistics of the land-grant colleges and agricultural experiment stations 

 in the United States for the year ended June 30, 1900 (T. S. Th-pt. Agr., Offici' 

 of Experiment Stations Bui. 97, p}>. 37). — A summary of this has already appeared 

 (E. S. R., 13, p. 101). 



Proceedings of the fourteenth annual convention of the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, A. C. TiirE, W. H. 

 Beal, and H. H. Goodell {U. S. Dept. A(jr., Office of Experiment Stations Brd. 99, 

 pp. 192, pis. 3). — This is a detailed account of the jmiceedings of the New Haven 

 convention (E. S. R., 12, p. 404). 



Proceedings of the tw^enty -first annual meeting of the Society for the 

 Promotion of Agricultural Science (I'ro<\ <SV.ir. Pr(»u. Agr. Sri., 1900, pp. 183). — 

 Articles published in the proceedings and not noted elsewhere in this issue are as 

 follows: Syllabus for a short course on grasses and other forage plants, by W. J. 

 Beal; University extension methods for the jiromotion of agricultural knowledge, 

 hy I. P. Roberts; Egyptian agricultural institutions, by D. G. Fairchild; Sub-Arctic 

 agriculture, by C. C. Georgeson; The application of agricultural chemistry to the 

 farm, by J. B. "Weems; How to teach agricultural chemistry to best combine the 

 science of chemistry with the application of it to the affairs of farm life, by E. B. 

 Voorhees; The course in cryptogamic botany, by L. H. Pammel. The information 

 contained in the following articles has been noted from other sources : The work 

 of the society in agricultural education, Ity W. J. Beal (E. S. R., 12, p. 599); The 

 ^•hemical functions of certain soil bacteria, by F. D. Chester (E. S. R.,12, p. 729); 

 Meteorological influences on the development of the Hessian fly, by F. ]\I. Webster 

 (E. S. R.,11, p. 476); Some new facts regarding the destructive green pea louse, by 

 W. G. Johnson (E. S. R., 12, p. 861) ; Effects of artificial foundations on the building 

 of honey comb, by C. P. Gillette (E. S. R., 12, p. 658) ; and Infiuence of wheat farm- 

 ing on soil fertility, by H. Snyder (E. S. R., 9, p. 641). 



Fifth report of committee on methods of teaching agriculture ( V. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Office of Experiment Stations Circ. 43, j)p- <^) ■ — This report was submitted by 

 the committee at the New Haven convention of the Association of American Agri- 

 cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 1900. The report contains syllabi of 

 courses in agrotechny, rural engineering, and rural economics. 



