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improved and may be supplanted either by drilling or by 

 broadcast >-owin<2:. As great a development is anticipated in 

 the harvestmg metliods, and the Forester for November, 1906, 

 contains a description of the first use of a modern harvester in 

 a Hawaiian rice field. 



Rice breeding is a phase of the work calling for expert and 

 painstaking investigation. So much has been done in breed- 

 ing new wheats and corn that there is every assurance that 

 the present experiments will develop a rice specially fitted to 

 our needs and of a full harvest yield. By continuous selection 

 and elimination a pedigreed seed stock is being evolved which 

 may in time almost double the yield obtainable from un.ie- 

 lected seed. 



The use of suitable fertilizers, the determination of a proper 

 crop rotation and the investigation of rice diseases offer a wide 

 field for experiment, and each of these features is being ac- 

 tively studied by the Expert in Charge. 



farmers' bulletin no. 274. 



Forage-crop Practices in Western Oregon and Western Wash- 

 ington. By Byron Hunter, Assistant Agricnltiirist, Farm 

 Management Investigations, Biirean of Plant Industry. Pp. 

 40, figs. 4. 



This bulletin is a reprint of Bulletin No. 94 of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, and contains information and suggestions 

 concerning hay making and the growing of forage crops west 

 of the Cascade Mountains in the States of Oregon and Wash- 

 ington. It also describes the climate and the conditions of 

 the farming lands of that region. 



farmers' bulletin no. 275. 



The Gipsy Moth and] Hoza to Control It. By L. O. Hozvard, 

 Entomologist, Pp. 24, Hgs. 7. 



Life history and description of the Gipsy Moth (Porthetria 

 dispar L.), the territory infested in the United States, its nat- 

 ural enemies, remedies, etc., with statements as to the meas- 

 ures taken by the State of Massachusetts and the Federal 

 Government for its control. 



N. B. The above two publications are obtainable free, fronn 

 the Secretary of Agricidtnre, Washington, D. C. 



The following publications have also been recently issued 

 and will be referred to more fully next month. 



Proceedings of the Hazvaiian Entomological Society, Vol. i, 

 part 2. 



