MISCELLANEOUS. 901 



10, pp. 2-'>S). — This is a detailed account of the operations of this station during the 

 yeai-s 1897-98 and 1899-1900, inchnUnir articles on the importance of nitrate oi soda 

 for Baltic agriculture, a contriltution to the knowledge ofthe wood of the yew ( Taxus 

 baccata), as well as a discussion of the results of the fertilizer control conducted by 

 the station and reviews of recent literature relating to the subject oi fertilizers. A 

 table of contents of Nos. 1 to 9 of the reports of this station is also given. 



Papers selected from those read at farmers' institutes and other meetings 

 during the year {rc)ni.-:!/lraHia Dept. A(/r. Rpt. 1901, pt. 2, pp. 110-o35). — Following 

 are some of the subjects treated: Ideal standards in fanning, nature study in the 

 public schools, botany on the farm, education for the adult farmer, the silo an eco- 

 nomic, the relation of the wholesomeness of the stable to the health of its inmates, 

 the soil our partner, soil improvement "the keynote of agrii-ulture, management of 

 dairy cows on the farm, farm fences and ways over the farm, hygiene on the farm, 

 nature study, the l)irds and the farmers, some suggesti<jns for furnishing and deco- 

 rating country homes, curing clover, lighting, heating, and ventilating the home, 

 intensive farming, public roads, live stock in western Pennsyhania, floriculture as a 

 profession, i)rogressive poultry raising, our farm garden, farming on a large scale, a 

 plea for better live stock in Pennsylvania, geological relation of soils, the Holstein- 

 Friesian breed, Ayrshires, the Jersey cow, growing Primula c/u'ne».?(> for exhibition, 

 twelve best herbaceous plants for the amateur, culture of Calceolaria hybrida, the cul- 

 tivation of sweet peas, how to prepare and plant a permanent asparay:us beil for pri- 

 vate use, report of general fruit committee, strawberry culture, is it advisal)le to grow 

 small fruits in young orchards, some points in door-yard planting and dec(.>ration, 

 advancement of floriculture in Allegheny County the past forty years, Pennsylvania 

 as a fruitgrowing State, ornamental horticulture, the packing and shipi^ing of fruit 

 from a commission merchant's standpoint, some points in jiotato culture, and selec- 

 tion of varieties, how to plant, pick, and store the apple. 



Changes in the rates of charge for railway and other transportation serv- 

 ices, II. T. Newcomb, revised by E. G. Ward, jr. ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of 

 Stati.^tics Bui. 15 {rev.), misc. ser., jip. 5i5).— Statistics for the years 1898-1900 are 

 added to the original bulletin, which was noted in E. S. R., 10, p. 298. "Perhaps 

 the most notable fact established by the addition of data for the last three years is 

 the great increase in the aggregate volume of traffic movement." 



Agricultural statistics for Belgium in 1900 {Stat'stique de la Belgiqne recense- 

 menl agricolr de 1. 00. Brassd^: M'mixtrj nf Ayrivalture, 1901 p}). 223). 



