210 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



" More or less successful attempts were made to use these small olives and 

 also overripe, frost-bitten, and bruised olives for the preparation of an olive 

 paste, which could be used in the same way as the various meat pastes com- 

 monly found on the market. It was found possible to remove the pits of the 

 fresh olives, grind up the pulp, remove the bitterness, salt to taste, and thus 

 produce an olive paste that was relished by everyone to whom it was sub- 

 mitted and usually pronounced better than any meat paste and even better 

 than the best ripe pickled olives. The processes tested were rapid, requiring 

 from 48 to less than 5 hours. It is probable that a process could be devised 

 which would be continuous. 



" The main defects of this method of utilizing olives are the comparatively 

 small amount of paste yielded by a given weight of olives. . , . With the 

 methods used, a ton of small olives would yield on the average about 1,000 lbs. 

 of olive paste. As the process of manufacture is simple and inexpensive, even 

 this yield should be more profitable than oil-making if the public would be will- 

 ing to pay as much for olive paste as for meat pastes." 



A history of the canning industry, edited by A. I. Judge (Nat. Canners' 

 Assoc. Ann. Conv., 7 {1914), PP- 162, 2>?s. 4, fiffS- HI). — Contained in this report 

 are a series of articles relating to various phases of the canning industiy, 

 among which are the history of the canning of meat, milk, tomatoes, and 

 corn, and the development of the canning industry in the different parts of the 

 United States. The report also contains statistical data concerning the packs 

 of corn, peas, and tomatoes, and the ripening and canning dates of certain vege- 

 tables and fruits. 



METEOROLOGY. 



Weather forecasting, S. F. Simms (Rhodesia Agr. Jour., 11 (1913), No. 2, 

 pp. 23It-2.'tO, pi. 1; 11 (1914), No. 3, pp. J/28-435) .—This article discusses briefly 

 the main principles of weather forecasting and explains how such forecasts can 

 be made by an observant person with a few instruments at his disposal. 



Monthly Weather Review (Mo. Weather Rev., 42 (1914), ^'os. 7, pp. 409- 

 472, pis. 11, figs. 43; 8, pp. 473-518, pis. 13, figs. 15).— In addition to notes on 

 weather forecasts for July and August, 1914, river and flood observations, lists 

 of additions to the "Weather Bureau library and of recent papers on meteorol- 

 ogy, the weather of the month, a condensed climatological summaiy, and cli- 

 matological tables and charts, these numbers contain the following articles : 



No. 7. — Free-Air Data in Southern California, July and August, 1913, by 

 W. R. Blair and W. R. Gregg; The Horizontal Rainbow, by S. Fujiwhara; 

 Observations of Horizontal Rainbows, by K. Nakamura ; The Halos of _ Novem- 

 ber 1 and 2, 1913, by L. Besson ; The Different Forms of Halos and Their Ob- 

 servation, by L. Besson; Halos and Their Relation to the Weather, by A, H. 

 Palmer; The Microbic Content of Indoor and Outdoor Air, by C. E. A. Wins- 

 low and W. W. Browne (see p. 211) ; Theoretical Meteorology : More Particularly 

 the Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere, by W. von Bezold ; and Ice Storms of 

 New England. 



No. 8. — The Total Radiation Received on a Horizontal Surface from the 

 Sun and Sky at Moimt Weather, Va. (illus.), by H. H. Kimball; The Absorp- 

 tion of the Atmosphere for Ultraviolet Light, by T. Lyman ; The Exudation of 

 Ice from Stems of Plants (illus.), by W. W. Coblentz (see p. 221) ; Are Light- 

 ning Flashes Unidirectional or Oscillating Electric Discharges? (illus.), by C. F. 

 Marvin; The Atmosphere of the Planet Mars, by W. H. Pickering; Does the 



