798 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



ment of the State Station for the year ended October 31, and of the College Station 

 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900; a report of the director reviewing the dif- 

 ferent lines of station work; and reports of the chemists, assistant in horticulture, 

 assistant in dairy huslxmdry, biologist, botanist, and entomologist noted elsewhere. 



Annual Report of Pennsylvania Station, 1900 {Pennsylvania Sta. Rpt. 1900, 

 pj». 43 i!) . — This includes the organization list of the station, a financial statement for 

 the fiscal year ende<l June 30, 1900, a brief review of station work by the director, 

 several articles noted elsewhere in this issue, and reprints with the addition in some 

 cases of detailed data of articles already abstracted from different sources as follows: 

 The agricultural use of lime (E. S. K, 12, p. 627), analyses of rose soils (E. S. R., 11, 

 p, 625), effect of various systems of fertilizing upon the humus of the soil (E. S. R., 

 13, p 330), a contribution to the chemistry of butter fat (E. S. R., 11, pp. 308, 615, 

 616), the chemical analysis of the apple and some of its products (E. S. R., 12, p. 

 554), variety tests of wheat (E. S. R., 13, p. 449), methods of steer feeding (E. S. R., 

 12, p. 875), and the manurial value of the excreta of milch cows (E. S. R., 12, p. 

 927). 



Fourteenth. Annual Report of Rhode Island Station, 1901 {Rhode Island 

 Sta. Rpt. 1901, pj). 183-389). — This includes the organization list of the station, a 

 report of the director reviewing briefly the work of the station during the year, 

 departmental reports and miscellaneous articles noted elsewhere, a financial state- 

 ment for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901 , and lists of donations, exchanges, and 

 station publications. 



Memoranda of the origin, plan, and results of the field and other experi- 

 ments conducted on the farm and in the laboratory of the late Sir John 

 Bennet Lawes at Rothamsted, England, J. H. Gilbert {Report to the Laives Agr. 

 Trust Committee, 1901, pjj. 123, figs. ,>, dgms. 7). — This is a report on the work of the 

 Rothamsted Experiment Station, containing summarized results up to the present 

 time. 



The Rothamsted experiments {London: William Clowes & Sons, Ltd., 1901, pp. 

 17, figs. 2, dgms. 7). — Summarized data from the above report. 



Crop Reporter {C S. Dept. Agr., Division of Statistics Crop Reporter, Vol. 3, Nos. 

 7-9, pp. 8 each). — Among a large number of short articles of a statistical nature con- 

 tained in these numl^ers are the following: The report of the Statistician for Novem- 

 ber, the raisin industry of California, the 1901 flaxseed crop, preliminary estimate of 

 the cotton crop of 1901-1902, annual report of the Statistician for the fiscal year 

 1901, exports of wheat, the United States bean crop, production of peas and potatoes 

 in Russia since 1883, the foreign trade of the United States in hides and leather, the 

 beet-sugar industry, receipts at primary markets and exports of wheat, the vegetaljle- 

 oil trade, the export of the United States and Canada in dairy products, Russian 

 crops in 1901, oflicial estimate of German crops, 1901, and potatoes in the United 

 States. 



Cotton ginning— crops of 1899 and 1900, D. C. Roper {Twelfth Census United 

 States, Census Bids. 38, pp. 16; 98, pp. 21, figs. 5). — Statistics as collected from ginning 

 establishments by correspondence and through enumerators show that the cotton 

 crop of 1899 was 9,645,974 commercial liales, amounting to 4,672,695,500 lbs.; and the 

 crop of 1900, 10,486,148 commercial bales, equivalent to 5,061,513,294 lbs. The most 

 significant feature is considered the extraordinary increase in the crop of Texas — 

 from 2,658,555 commercial bales in 1899 to 3,536,506 in 1900. "Texas grew 34 per 

 cent of the total crop of 1900 and one-fourth of the world's crop in that year." Bulle- 

 tin 98 concludes with an historical and descriptive account of ginning cotton. 



Cotton-seed products, D. C. Roper {Twelfth Census United States, Census Bui. 129, 

 nn. 10, dgm. 1) .—From this report on the manufacture of cotton-seed products for the 

 year ended May 31, 1900, it appears that there were 357 estalilisliments engaged in 

 the extraction of cotton-seed oil and that the total amount and value nf tlie ^-evcral 



