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Progress in the beet-sugar industry in the United States in 1900 445 



Twelve years of sugar-beet tests in the United States 446 



Sugar beets, 1891-1900, J. T. Willard and R. W. Clothier ^ 446 



The sugar beet in North Carolina, W. A. Withers 446 



Regeneration of the seed beet, F. Bubak 446 



The sugar industrj^ of Lousiana, R. Dykers 446 



Culture of sugar cane 446 



Sugar production in Mexico - - 446 



Seedling canes 446 



Experiments on the manuring of swedes 446 



Sweet potato, F. S. Shiver. 446 



Climatic studies with wheat, oats^ and corn, E. F. Ladd 448 



The wheat crop of 1900 grown under different methods of farming 449 



Variety tests of wheat, G. C. Watson and E. H. Hess 449 



Comparative values of Ontario wheatsfor bread-making purposes, R. Harcourt. 450 



Varieties of winter wheats, C. A. Zavitz 450 



A new wheat industry for the semiarid west, M. A. Carleton 451 



Investigation of the wheat of southern Russia, P. Melikov 451 



Sulphate of ammonia as a top-dressing for winter wheat, Kirchner 451 



Winter cereals and fertilizers applied as a top-dressing, Grand 451 



Breeding of wheats rich in gluten, E. Schribaux 451 



HORTICULTURE. 



Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture, W. I). Drury et al 451 



The century book of gardening, E. T. Cook et al 451 



The art and craft of garden making, T. H. Mawson 452 



Cabbage, cauliflower, etc., from seed to harvest, C. L. Allen 452 



Vegetable tests for 1900, L. R. Taft and M. L. Dean 452 



The influence of night shelter on vegetable production, A. Petit. . 452 



Report of the experiment station at Charles City, C. G. Patten 453 



A study on fruit bloom, W. Greene - 453 



Peach culture, S. B. Voorhees 453 



Plums and plum culture, F. A. Waugh 453 



Fruit culture in the government of Kazan, Russia, V. V. Pashkevich 453 



The breeding of native northwestern fruits, N. E. Hansen 454 



The washing of cider fruits, A. Truelle 454 



The outcome of crossing fruits and shrubs in the Northwest, J. L. Budd 454 



The cultivation of oranges, Alino 454 



Notes on strawberries, L. R. Taft and M. L. Dean 456 



Modern cranberry culture; essential principles of the business 456 



The grape in Oregon. I, Western Oregon, E. R. Lake et al 456 



Grapes and wine, P. Jamain, G. Bellair, and C. Moreau 456 



The vine; notes on its intensive culture, E. L. Guardiola 457 



Viticulture, its processes and materials, P. Andrieu 457 



On the rational pruning of vines, F. Kovessi 457 



Anatomical researches on the ripening of vine shoots, F. Kovessi 457 



The quality of the wood of" vines, L. Ravaz and A. Bonnet 458 



An old rubber plantation, A. H. Berkhout 458 



Caoutchouc from the Kongo, L. Gentil 458 



Sander's orchid guide 458 



Report of committee on school gardens and children's herbariums, H. L. Clapp. 458 



The educational status of horticulture, F. W. Card 458 



FORESTRY. 



A forest working plan for Township 40, R. S. Hosmer and E. S. Bruce 458 



The influence of forests on water 459 



Extermination of oaks at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, J. Jensen 459 



The plane trees, W. J. Bean 460 



Studies concerning the genus Platanus, F. Jaennicke 460 



The conversion of home-grown timber into various products, D. F. Mackenzie. 460 



Improvement felling as a financial success, F. E. Olmsted 460 



Colorado forest fires in 1900, H. Michelsen 460 



Destruction of timber l>y the Galveston storm, W. L. Bray 460 



A "snowbreak" for the protection of timber plantations, G. L. Clothier 461 



