MISCELLANEOUS. 799 



potatoes, hay, seed selection, farm management, live stock, farm-home sanitation, 

 country roads, and rural cooperation. Each chapter is followed by questions 

 find arithmetical problems on the subjects treated. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Sixteenth Annual Report of Montana Station. 1909 (Montana Sta. Rpi. 

 1901), pp. 63-S3). — This contains the organization list, a financial statement for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, a report of the director on the work and 

 publications of the station, and a meteorological summary of temperature, pre- 

 cipitation, wind direction, sunshine, and frost conditions at Bozeman, Mont.. 

 during the year. 



Twentieth Annual Report of New Mexico Station, 1909 (Neio Mexico Sta. 

 Rpt. 1909, pp. 5-Jfl, fig. i).— This contains the organization list, a report of the 

 director on the work, publications, and exchanges of the station, departmental 

 reports on the various lines of station work conducted during the year, and a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909. Portions of the 

 reports of the chemist and horticulturist are abstracted on pages 710 and 733, 

 respectively, of this issue. 



Second Annual Report of the Dickinson Subexperiment Station, 1909 

 [North Dakota Sta., Rpt. Diclcinson Siibsta., 1909, pp. 5-69, figs. 10, charts 7). — 

 This contains the organization list of the North Dakota Station and an account 

 of the work of the Dickinson substation for 1909. The experimental work 

 recorded is abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Annual review of agronomy, D. Zolla (Rev. Gen. Set., 21 (1910), No. 18, 

 pp. 779-792). — This article summarizes recent researches on the action of potash 

 salts oji the growth of oats and other forage crops, the topping of cereals, the 

 culture of cereals under dry land conditions, the influence of fertilizers on the 

 composition of cereals, and the fight against hail and methods of defense, with 

 an account of the work of the station of vegetable pathology at Paris. 



Report of the Danish plant culture committee, H. C. Larsen (Ber. Stat. 

 Planteavl. [Denmark], 1909-10, pp. 151). — The various activities of the com- 

 mittee during the year are described and a discussion given as to methods of 

 experimentation and work in progress and in contemplation at the 8 Danish 

 plant culture stations for the year 1909, with the budget of the stations for 

 the year. 



The Swedish Moor Culture Society and its activities, H. von Feilitzen 

 (Svenska Mosskulturfor. Tidskr., 2ff (1910), No. 3, Sup., pp. 169-2J,0, figs. .',5).— 

 This report contains a historical sketch of the society and its oi'ganization and 

 equipment, with a description of its buildings and experimental grounds. 



Report of the Central Experimental Agricultural Institute for 1909, S. 

 Rhodin et al. (K. Landtbr. Akad. Handl. och Tidskr., 49 (1910), No. 3, pp. 

 251-278). — Brief .statements of the work of the various departments of the 

 institute during the year are given, with a list of its publications. 



Report of the agricultural department of Finland, 1908 (T.iindfhr. Styr. 

 Meddel. [Finland], 1910, No. 70, pp. VI +203+3). —This report presents the usual 

 brief statements of the various activities of the department during the year. 



