MISCELLANEOUS. 1105 



Tropical agriculture, 11. A. A. Nicholls {Xew York: The Macmillan Co., 1900, 

 jip. A' A'/ I' olJ, fii/s. n;). — Tills work was written as a text-book on troiiical agri- 

 culture for tlie West Indies, adapted for use in the colleges and higher schools of 

 that colony. The tirst part of the work discusses soils, jilant life, manures, irriga- 

 tion, tillage, pruning, budding, and grafting, and the principles of agriculture 

 generally; while the second part is devoted to detailed cultural o[)erations for various 

 tropical products, such as coffee, cacao, tea, sugar cane, fruits, spices, tobacco, drugs, 

 dyes, and tropical cereals and other f(jod plants. P^special attention has been given 

 to the details of the different cultural operations, the book being intendeil more 

 parficularly as a guidi- for the young and inexperienced. 



Fourteenth Annual Report of Arkansas Station, 1901 (Arhnisnx ,Sl<t. J^pt. 

 1901, pp. 6-\-12S). — This includes the organization list of the station, a brief report 

 of the director, and a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901. 

 Reprints of Bulletins 66-70 on the following subjects are appended: Oat experiments 

 (E. S. R., 13, p. 545), investigations of swine diseases in Arkansas (E. S. R., 13, 

 p. 896), soil improvement and forage experiments ( E. S. R., 13, p. 840), some 

 muskmelon experiments (E. 8. R., 13, p. 850), and cowpea experiments (E. S. R., 

 13, p. 843). 



Annual Report of Florida Station, 1901 {Florida St<i. Ii)>l. 1901, pp. 57).— This 

 incluiles the organization list of the station; a report of the director reviewing briefly 

 the work and publications of the station during the year; a subject list of station 

 bulletins; financial statements for the fiscal years ended June 30, 1900 antl 1901; and 

 reports of the agriculturist, chemist, entomologist, and the botanist and horticulturist, 

 giving the results of work noted elsewhere in this issue. Reprints of Bulletins 56-58 

 of the station on the following subjects are appended: The cottony cushion scale 

 {Icerya purcltad) (E. S. R., 13, p. 472), top-working pecans (E. S. R., 13, p. 559), 

 and pomelos (E. S. R., 13, p. 557). 



Fourteenth Annual Report of Louisiana Stations, 1901 [Luuiskina Stas. Ilpt. 

 1901, jjp. 12).-^\n account is given of the work at the Sugar Station at Audubon 

 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, 1901. 



Seventeenth Annual Report of Maine Station, 1901 { Maine .SVa. li/it. 1901, 

 pp. 200).-^1h\s is made up of reprints of Bulletins 70-78 of the station as follows: 

 Oats as grain and fodder (E. S. R., 13, p. 240), feeding stuff inspection (E. S. R., 13, 

 p. 270), fertilizer inspection (E. S. R., 13, p. 236), experiments with fungicides upon 

 potatoes in 1900 (E. S. R., 13, p. 360), the manurial value of ashes, mucks, seaweed, 

 and bone (E. S. R., 13, p. 332), analyses of miscellaneous food materials (E. 8. R., 13, 

 p. 577), the horticultural status of the genus Vaccmium (E. S. R., 13, p. 648), ferti- 

 lizer inspection ( E. S. R., 13, p. 6;>4), and finances, meteorology, index (E. S. R., 

 13, p. 1002). 



Twentieth Annual Report of Ohio Station, 1901 {Ohio ,s/<(. /»///. 1901, pp. 

 _YA7).— This includes the organization list of the station, a financial statement for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, a brief report of the director, and a list of 

 acknowledgments. 



Thirteenth Annual Report of Texas Station, 1901 ( 7"('.i((.s- Sta. Rpt. 1901, pp. 

 //.i-/.>7).— This includes the organization li.-t of the station; a report on the publica- 

 tions, organization, and work oi the station by the director; resolutions adopted by 

 agricultural orgaiuzations in Texas concerning the station, departmental reports, a 

 subject list of station bulletins, and a financial statement for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1901. 



Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 1900 

 ( r. .V. Dept. Afjr., JUueua oj Annua/ //k/cs//// 7^. 1900, pp. (i4-', P^x- 9S, Ji </.'<. ,'.;.Vj.— 

 This contains the report of the chief, reviewing at some length the work of the 



